From Folk to Classic with Cimbalom & Violin

Chamber Music Concert

Saturday, September 29, 2018, 3 p.m.
2700 E West Maple Rd, Commerce Charter Twp, MI 48390

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 1st, 2018. The folk melodies from Romania are from different regions of the country. The anonymous composer songs have been passed from generation to generation through the memory of the performers. The cimbalom is an instrument present throughout the Balkans regions and predominant in Romanian folk music. 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”

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

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Suite from the Banat region (Suita Banat) 

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

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

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“River Someş” (“Someş”)

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“Young Man’s Dance” (“Fecioresc”)
Daniel Lazăr, violin; Alexandru Şura, cimbalom

– INTERMISSION –

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Folk suite Barbu Lautarul (Suita Barbu Lautarul)

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Hungarian folk suite (Suita Ungureasca) 

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Suite from the Oltenia Region (Suita Olteneasca)

Aram Khachaturian (1903–1978) arr: A. Sura
“Sabre Dance”

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908)
“Flight of the Bumblebee”

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921)
Introduction and Rondo capriccioso

Vittorio Monti (1868–1922)
Czardas (Csárdás)
Alexandru Şura, cimbalom; Robert Conway, piano

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