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Midday on the Arts concludes today with an internationally acclaimed classical guitarist, the Russian American virtuoso Piotr Pakhomkin. He has toured the world, and won several international guitar competitions. After finishing his studies with Manuel Barrueco at Peabody, Piotr became the First Prize winner of the 2012 Mexican International Guitar Competition in Culiacan and has taken top prizes at the 2012 Boston GuitarFest International Guitar Competition, Great Lakes Guitar Competition, Montreal International Guitar Competition, and the European International Guitar Competition, “Enrico Mercatali,” in Italy. After completing the prestigious Strathmore Artist-in-Residence program in 2014, he returned to serve as a faculty member and mentor in their Institute for Artistic Development.As the winner of the 2016 Respighi International Soloist Competition, he made his concerto and solo debut at Carnegie Hall in the Chamber Orchestra of New York's ----Masterwork Series---- in June 2018. Piotr plays exclusively on a 2010 Ross Gutmeier Guitar using Oasis GPX strings. He and his family have settled in Frederick, Maryland, where he founded and directs The Segovia Academy of Music, which provides music education and training to all ages and skill levels, ranging from the complete beginner to aspiring professionals.Piotr Pahkomkin joins us Live in Studio A and performs two pieces: Francisco Tarrega's Capricho Arabe and Johann Sebastian Bach's Prelude from Cello Suite No. 1.This segment was livestreamed on WYPR's Facebook page. You can watch the video of Mr. Pakhomkin's performance here, beginning at 39:19 in the video stream.Midday host Tom Hall opened the segment with an update on the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's labor-management dispute. Lovers of classical music are certainly aware that the members of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra are embroiled in a contentious contract dispute with BSO management. The musicians have been picketing in front of Meyerhoff Symphony Hall for much of the summer, after management canceled the summer season, and locked out the musicians. Midday has been in touch with members of the BSO administration and the players committee. Management will lift the lock-out on Monday. Both sides are meeting at this hour (noon on Friday, September 6) to try to reach an agreement by Monday, when rehearsals for the 2019-20 season are scheduled to begin. The first concert of the season is scheduled to take place at the Meyerhoff on Saturday night, September 14th at 8:00pm. Go to the BSO website for information about the event.The BSO musicians, separate from management, are producing their own concert that afternoon at 4:00pm at the New Shiloh Baptist Church with Music Director Marin Alsop on the podium, and guest artists Brian Stokes Mitchell, Janice Chandler Eteme, and choral singers from the community. You can find details about that concert event at the musicians' website.
Hello ladies and gentlemen. This is David Grizzly Smith. You probably guessed that, of course. I normally wouldn't do what I'm going to do tonight. This is rather unusual for Grizzly's Growls -- though Grizzly's Growls doesn't have a strict format, and besides it's mine, I can do what I want. As you know, I've been getting a few episodes ahead in my recording of the Federalist Papers. Tonight I recorded Federalist #14, the whole of which you'll hear when it drops on February 1st. Every time I've recorded a book, it seems, there's that one part I have to record two or three times. It gets me right in the heart, and I break down a bit trying to get the words out. So I do it over till I can finish it intelligibly, more or less. This time, so far at least, it was Federalist #14. It purports to have been written by James Madison, and I can believe that, it seems the most heartfelt essays came from Madison. Some sources'd say Hamilton really wrote them. I'd go with Madison, even so. The first part of the essay is along the workmanlike likes of those just prior. And then I got to the last part. And I could hear in the words the voice of a warrior for American independence, and American innovation, at a time when Kings and Queens were the order of the day for much of the world. And at a time when some in this country were arguing for dividing us up into fragments, rather than preserving the Union which made the American revolution possible. Seems to me there are those forces and those voices today who likewise would like to divide us. And we need words that express those fundamental values and that fundamental unity in which almost all of us believe. We are quarreling amongst ourselves, as families do sometimes. And there are certainly those who'd like to encourage those quarrels, to weaken us and strengthen their own grasp on their wealth and power over us. I think James Madison said it well, so I'm going to let him say his piece. If you're interested, the background music is Johann Sebastian Bach's "Prelude in C Major" played by Kevin MacLeod, the theme music for the whole series. Enjoy. And I hope you take it to heart, as I did. The original text from Congress.gov Book Theme: "Prelude in C Major" from Kevin MacLeod Show Theme "Hot Swing" from Kevin MacLeod of Incompetech.com. Comments via the https://www.speakpipe.com/grizzlysgrowls Comment Line: 218-234-CALL 218-234-2255 Contributions: https://www.patreon.com/grizzlysgrowls
Hello ladies and gentlemen. This is David Grizzly Smith. You probably guessed that, of course. I normally wouldn't do what I'm going to do tonight. This is rather unusual for Grizzly's Growls -- though Grizzly's Growls doesn't have a strict format, and besides it's mine, I can do what I want. As you know, I've been getting a few episodes ahead in my recording of the Federalist Papers. Tonight I recorded Federalist #14, the whole of which you'll hear when it drops on February 1st. Every time I've recorded a book, it seems, there's that one part I have to record two or three times. It gets me right in the heart, and I break down a bit trying to get the words out. So I do it over till I can finish it intelligibly, more or less. This time, so far at least, it was Federalist #14. It purports to have been written by James Madison, and I can believe that, it seems the most heartfelt essays came from Madison. Some sources'd say Hamilton really wrote them. I'd go with Madison, even so. The first part of the essay is along the workmanlike likes of those just prior. And then I got to the last part. And I could hear in the words the voice of a warrior for American independence, and American innovation, at a time when Kings and Queens were the order of the day for much of the world. And at a time when some in this country were arguing for dividing us up into fragments, rather than preserving the Union which made the American revolution possible. Seems to me there are those forces and those voices today who likewise would like to divide us. And we need words that express those fundamental values and that fundamental unity in which almost all of us believe. We are quarreling amongst ourselves, as families do sometimes. And there are certainly those who'd like to encourage those quarrels, to weaken us and strengthen their own grasp on their wealth and power over us. I think James Madison said it well, so I'm going to let him say his piece. If you're interested, the background music is Johann Sebastian Bach's "Prelude in C Major" played by Kevin MacLeod, the theme music for the whole series. Enjoy. And I hope you take it to heart, as I did. The original text from Congress.gov Book Theme: "Prelude in C Major" from Kevin MacLeod Show Theme "Hot Swing" from Kevin MacLeod of Incompetech.com. Comments via the https://www.speakpipe.com/grizzlysgrowls Comment Line: 218-234-CALL 218-234-2255 Contributions: https://www.patreon.com/grizzlysgrowls
Organist David Deffner performs Johann Sebastian Bach's Prelude in B Minor, BWV 544, for the UC Davis Department of Music.