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Redwood Arts Council

The Cleveland Duo & James Umble - With Tango by Jessica & Gustavo Hornos
9/12/2009
Grammy nominated group of violin, piano & saxophone, sharing the stage with renowned Tango dancers, bringing passion and music to a new level.
Salmon Creek School Auditorium,
Occidental

Daedalus Quartet
10/24/2009
A return of one of the finest ensembles around

Contrasts Quartet
11/14/2009
Exhilarating performances of old and new repertoire by clarinet, violin, cello & piano

École Royale
1/23/2009
Kraft, Kyme, Wilson, Morris playing period instruments for music as it is to be experienced.

Flanders Recorder Quartet
2/27/2010
Visiting virtuosos that breathe excitement back in to a simple instrument with a contagious enthusiasm.

Johannes String Quartet
3/20/2010
Four impressively gifted instrumentalists in their own right come together to form one of the great chamber music groups of our time.

SF Conservatory Trio
4/17/2009
Interpretive prowess and excellent musicianship from our own Bay Area scholars, Axel Strauss, Jean-Michel Fonteneau, and Jeffrey Sykes

Calefax Reed Quintet
5/1/2009
Five musicians arrange, recompose and interpret music from eight centuries in a fresh way to suit their unique constellation: Oboe, clarinet, bassoon, bass clarinet, and saxophone.

Program and performance venue subject to change
All performances 8:00pm in the Occidental Church, except September 12, which is at the Salmon Creek School, Occidental

 

2002-3 Season Poster

Artist Oswaldo Guayasamin was born in Quito, Ecuador, in 1919. He graduated from Art school with a degree in painting and sculpture and had his first exhibit when he was 23. By the time he was 33, he had won numerous national prizes. His work was exhibited in museums in Paris, Buenos Aires, many cities in the United States, and in Moscow, the Prague, Rome, Madrid, Barcelona, and Warsaw.

His humanistic, expressionistic work reflects the pain and the misery of man. It denounces the violence that has marked the 20th Century. Guayasamín was a friend of important intellectuals and statesmen of the progressive world. His portraits of some of them, including Fidel Castro, Francois and Danielle Mitterrand, Gabriel Garcia Márquez, Rigoberta Menchú, and others, are most powerful. He died at the age of 79 in 1999, leaving his country with many magnificent works of art, including the 1967 painting "The Violinist", which adorns our poster.

Learn more about this remarkable artist at his Web site.

Chris Dec designed this poster. She specializes in portraits from photos. She produces water color and pastel renderings using electronic media, which are hand-finished in chalk pastels. A graphic artist as well, Chris conducts her business from her home studio in Sebastopol in Northern California. She can be reached at chrisdec@sonic.net.