Ancestral Voices: Music for Violin & Cimbalom

Chamber Music Concert

Friday, September 28, 2018, 11:30 a.m.
Wayne State University, Schaver Recital Hall, 480 W Hancock St, Detroit, MI 48201

This is a concert in celebration of the 100-year anniversary of Romania’s unification of the Romanian regions into a new republic.

The date of the unification was December 1, 1918. The Romanian folk melodies are from different regions of the country, and the anonymous composer songs have been passed from generation to generation through the memory of the performers. Toni Iordache was a Romani-Romanian lăutar and one of the most famous cimbalom (Romanian: ţambal) players in the world. He was nicknamed the “God of the Cimbalom” and the “Paganini of the Cimbalom.” We hope that this special and unique concert will present a kaleidoscope of Romania through the ancestral voices of the Romanian songs.

Concert Program

Toni Iordache (1942-1988)
“Balada haiduceasca”

anonymous
Variations on the song “Corn Harvest”
(Variatiuni pe tema “La cules de cucuruz”)

anonymous
Folk suite Barbu Lautarul (Suita Barbu Lautarul) 

Alexandru Şura, cimbalom

anonymous
Suite from the Banat region (Suita Banat)

anonymous
Suite from the Maramureş/Oaşi region (Suita Maramureş/Oaşi) 

anonymous
Suite from the Mureş/Alba region (Suita Mureş/Alba)

anonymous
“River Someş” (“Someş”)

anonymous
“Young Man’s Dance” (“Fecioresc”) 

Daniel Lazăr, violin; Alexandru Şura, cimbalom

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