{"id":9610,"date":"2023-08-07T09:35:46","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T13:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=9610"},"modified":"2023-09-05T04:51:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T08:51:57","slug":"guitarfest-3","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/event\/guitarfest-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The Village Trip GuitarFest III \u2013 Finding Beauty in Small Things \u2013 Mel Powell to Chester Biscardi"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Among the finest guitarists of all time\u201d (American Record Guide), David Leisner<\/strong> will perform works written for him by Laura Kaminsky, Bun-Ching Lam, and Chester Biscardi\u2019s \u201cFinding Beauty in Small Things\u201d.<\/p>\n

Guitarist Xingxing Yao<\/strong>, from Hangzhou performs Mel Powell. Chilean guitarist Sebastian Molina<\/strong>, Bowers Fader Duo<\/strong>, and more, do works by David Loeb, Martin Rokeach, Richard Cameron-Wolfe. Neil Beckmann<\/strong> will perform \u201cBailarin\u201d, by Pulitzer Prize winner Tania Leon.<\/p>\n

Mel Powell\u2019s path forward through the postwar decades led him to his gutsy 1955 soundscape for Gumbasia, the ground-breaking claymation movie by Art Clokey. At the end of Mel Powell's career, the jazz all but evaporates out of his music and Powell is in the universe of Chester Biscardi, Bun-Ching Lam and Laura Kaminsky.<\/p>\n

Mel Powell\u2019s guitar solo, \u201cSetting\u201d, was written for David Starobin in 1986. \u201dSetting\u201d will be performed on GuitarFest 3 by Xingxing Yao, a 17-year-old from Hangzhou, who is a student of David Starobin and Jason Vieaux at the Curtis Institute.<\/p>\n

Martin Rokeach is a Bay-Area composer who loves New York. \u201cOdd Couple of Prince Street\u201d (premiere) refers to the wedding of the banjo and the piano.<\/p>\n

The Bowers Fader Duo will perform Richard Cameron-Wolfe\u2019s \u201cGazelle in my garden\u201d, from his 2016 \u201cBreathless\u2013Cantata on Ancient Mystical Texts\u201d. The poem is by Quasmuna bint Isma'il, whose Jewish father was court poet to the 11th-century Moslem King of Granada.<\/p>\n

David Loeb is one of our most remarkable musical mavericks. He countered the International Stye with his own international style, his own unique World Music, in a career spent between New York and Japan, where he absorbed Japanese musical idioms. Mariano Aguirre, Carlo Valte, Scott Jackson Wiley <\/strong>will perform Loeb\u2019s \u201cBetween Sea and Sky\u201d.<\/p>\n

David Amram, The Village Trip\u2019s resident composer, occupies an absolutely unique place in American music, straddling everything \u2014 jazz and classical, US and Europe. He knew all the jazz legends, wrote unforgettable films scores for Elia Kazan and John Frankenheimer. The Village Trip GuitarFest concludes with Amram\u2019s songs for Joseph Papp\u2019s Shakespeare in the Park, arranged for guitar orchestra by Noam Beili.<\/p>\n

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