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LIVE AT THE LOUNGE
Classical Series
Every Saturday Night
Hermosa Beach
SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 2010
   Opens for Dinner (optional) and Drinks at 7:00 p.m.
Show Starts at 8:00 p.m.
 
Yana plays Rhapsody In Blue
 
Boston-based soprano Courtney Huffman sings selections from her Carnegie Hall Recital
 

 
COURTNEY HUFFMAN soprano
and
TALI TADMOR piano
 

The Artists
 
COURTNEY HUFFMAN soprano
and
TALI TADMOR piano
 

After taking First Place in the coveted NATS 2008 Artist Award Competition in Nashville, Tennessee, Boston-based soprano Courtney Huffman made her New York solo recital debut with pianist Tali Tadmor at Carnegie Hall in June 2009. About Courtney's appearance as Motezuma's daughter Teutile in Long Beach Opera's U.S. Premiere of Vivaldi's Motezuma, Mark Swed wrote in the Los Angeles Times, "Teutile brilliantly sung by a young soprano, Courtney Huffman, just entering the professional arena, is treated as a supercilious young starlet ... She sings and steals the stage ... I hope opera talent scouts were on hand..." Courtney holds a Bachelor of Music from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a Master of Music from the USC Thornton School.
 

Israeli-born pianist Tali Tadmor earned a Doctorate in Keyboard Collaborative Arts at USC. Recent concerts include the USC Thornton Symphony, USC Contemporary Music Ensemble at Disney Hall, and the Eric Whitacre Choral Invitational in China's Forbidden City. Most recently, Ms. Tadmor toured Italy with the Azusa Pacific University Choir, performed a chamber music recital with members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and served as Music Director for LA Opera's community outreach production, The Marriage of Figueroa. Ms. Tadmor is a faculty member of CalArts' Herb Alpert School of Music.
 

MAYUMI KANAGAWA violin
and
PHILLIP GOLUB piano
 

An EMMI music major at the Crossroads School, Japanese-born violinist Mayumi Kanagawa came to Los Angeles in 2007 to study with Robert Lipsett. She won top prizes in the Connecticut International String Competition and the Corpus Christi International Competition. Mayumi has appeared as a soloist with the New West Symphony and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra.
 

Pianist Phillip Golub, who attends the Crossroads School, divides his time between classical and jazz, as both a performer and composer. In April of 2008, Phillip won the Los Angeles Music Center's prized Spotlight Award. He won the 2009 and 2010 ASCAP Young Jazz Composers Award, the 2010 ASCAP Morton Gould Award for classical composition, two 2009 Downbeat Magazine Student Awards, and a 2009 Dolo Coker Scholarship Award.
 

COURTNEY JONES trumpet
and 
YANA REZNIK piano and Artistic Director
 

Trumpeter Courtney Jones recently completed his Masters of Music degree in Trumpet Performance at Shenandoah University in Winchester VA and is pursuing his DMA as a Gluck Fellow at UCLA with international trumpet virtuoso Jens Lindemann. Courtney freelances and frequently plays with the Golden State Pops Orchestra, Southeast Symphony, MET LA Theatre Company, and he is a member of Paradigm Brass. Watch an iCadenza interview with Courtney Jones by clicking here.
 

The high artistic quality of the offerings is assured by Live At The Lounge Classical Series Artistic Director Yana Reznik, well known to Southland aficionados, who trained at the Manhattan School of Music under Phillip Kawin and earned a Master's Degree at the USC Thornton School and the coveted Professional Studies Certificate at the Colburn Conservatory with John Perry.
 

All-American Program
 
COURTNEY HUFFMAN soprano
TALI TADMOR piano
 
Tom Cipullo (b.1960)
Desire
(Another Reason Why I Don't Keep a Gun in the House)
 
Ricky Ian Gordon (b.1956)
Afternoon on a Hill
 
Dominick Argento (b.1927)
In Spring Comes from Songs About Spring
 
Lee Hoiby (b.1926)
Always It's Spring
 
Charles Ives (1874-1954)
Tom Sails Away
Memories A, B
The Circus Band
 
Libby Larsen (b.1950)
TRY ME, GOOD KING
The Last Words of the Wives of Henry VIII
1. Katherine of Aragon
2. Anne Boleyn
3. Jane Seymour
 
SELECTION OF OPERA ARIAS
 

MAYUMI KANAGAWA violin
PHILLIP GOLUB piano
 
George Gershwin
transcribed by Jascha Heifetz
An American in Paris (excerpts)
Bess, You Is My Woman Now
It Ain't Necessarily So
 
Click to Watch Jascha Heifetz perform
It Ain't Necessarily So
 

COURTNEY JONES trumpet
 
Frank Ticheli (b.1958)
As the Sound of the Trumpet Speaking with Me
 
 
COURTNEY JONES trumpet
YANA REZNIK piano
 
 Dana Wilson (b.1946)
Masks for trumpet: 2. With Resignation
 
Rafael Mendez, arr.
Aria Vesti la giubba from Pagliacci
 

YANA REZNIK piano
 
George Gershwin
Rhapsody in Blue for piano solo
 

The Venue
 

The Classical Music Series of Live At The Lounge in Hermosa Beach is a new concept for Southern California. New Yorkers have embraced the concept with great enthusiasm at Le Poisson Rouge in Greenwich Village. The weekly Classical Music Series at Live At The Lounge harkens back to music-halls in the time of Mozart and Beethoven, where classical music was enjoyed in a fun, informal setting. Feel free to applaud between movements whenever you're inspired to do so. Writer and critic Laurence Vittes hosts the evening and provides expert commentary on the artists and pieces.
  
Read the EasyReader article "Classical Gas: Yana Reznik brings concert hall musicians to Hermosa Beach" by clicking here.
 
Thanks to Mike Lacey, the forward-looking founder and President of the famed Comedy and Magic Club (where Jay Leno performs every Sunday evening), Southern California now has a new weekly classical music series where premier established and rising young performers can be enjoyed in an attractive and intimate club setting. Enjoy classical music in a listening-room setting (not background music) accompanied by fine dinners (optional) and/or drinks.  
 
Live At The Lounge (adjoining The Comedy & Magic Club) is a beautiful 90-person theater that serves dinner expertly prepared from the freshest ingredients available in Southern California before and during all performances. Arrive early and enjoy a delicious dinner with friends and make new ones. Stay after and socialize with the artists.
 

LIVE AT THE LOUNGE
Classical Series
Saturday, June 12, 2010
Opens for Dinner (optional) and Drinks at 7:00 p.m.
Show Starts at 8:00 p.m.
1014 Hermosa Ave. - Hermosa Beach CA
Admission $10 (+ $2 service charge)
plus two-beverages minimum (alcoholic or non-alcoholic)
Advance ticket purchase is recommended
(tickets can be purchased at the door if space is available)
To order tickets, call (310) 372-1193
 
*Special $5 Admission Offer
 

To encourage classical music lovers to experience concerts at Live At The Lounge, a special $5 admission is being offered again this week - up to four admissions per order - for readers of the Clickable Chamber Music Newsletter. Use the promotion code "CMLA" when ordering ($2 service charge & two-beverage minimum per admission applies).
 

For concert information and to order online, click:
www.ClassicalMusicLA.com
 
Live At The Lounge is an 18-and-over theatre. Parking is often available on the roof of the Comedy and Magic Club for $5 (enter off 10th street).
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