Love Concert, April 21, 2018

CMFW Spring Festival 2018, “Welcome All”: Celebrating Refugee Families 

Love Concert

Benefiting the iACT for Refugees (Interfaith Action of Central Texas)

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Featuring
CMFW Orchestra, Refugee Students’ Performance, and Guest Speakers

WHEN:  Saturday, April, 21, 2018 at 7 pm
WHERE:  Oak Hill United Methodist Church, 7815 Highway 290 West , Austin, Texas 78736
COST:    FREE (donations gratefully accepted – all go to the designated Austin refugee organization iACT for Refugees.)

Please follow the links below to  listen to excerpts of the Love Concert:

 

PROGRAM

Welcome Drum
Funga Alafia – West African Welcome Song
Ye Toop Doram – West Afghan Ball Game Song

Refugee Students from Doss Elementary School         Chirstina Tannert, music director

Guest Speakers

Felrola Derakhshani, Chair of UN Association-Austin Chapter
Simone Talma Flowers, Executive Director of iACT ( (Interfaith Action of Central Texas)

CMFW Chamber Orchestra 

Instructors: Eugene Gratovich (Concert Master) and Luzvic Bacstrom

Concerto for Two Violins and Cello in d minor, RV 565, Op. 3, No.11   –   Vivaldi (1678 – 1741)
Allegro – Largo e Spiccato – Allegro
Soloists (CMFW Young Music Ambassadors):
Nick Hammel, 1st violin
Chet Fagerstrom, 2nd violin
Sage Lee, cello

Cello Concerto No. 1, in C Major  –   Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Moderato – Adagio – Finale: Allegro molto
Soloist: Francesco Mastromatteo, cello                        

Divertimento in F Major, K.138  – Mozart (1756 – 1791)
Allegro

Program Notes By the CMFW Artistic Director

The two works in this program have a truly romantic “open” quality even if they come from the Baroque and the Classical Era. The intensity of both concerti and the inspiration of their melodic ideas are extremely personal, and speak directly to the audience. In the first one the counterpoint is linked to a celebration of light and colors in the orchestration and in the continuous changes in the orchestra textures. This celebration of different shades in the strings makes the music speaking to the innermost emotions of both the performers and the public.

The Haydn concerto is a masterpiece in melodic beauty connected to an absolute mastery in controlling the formal development of each segment of those melodies. The brilliant rhythmic articulations of all three movements in fact comes straight from the ability of Haydn to separate small fragments of the melody transforming them in exciting musical and emotional adventures.

In the end the two truly “open masterpieces”  invite us to “Welcome” humanity in its beauty, diversity, uniqueness.

Orchestra Members

1st violin
Dr.Eugene Gratovich – Associate Concertmaster at Austin Symphony Orchestra
Gelsomina Min Meglino -10th grade, Westlake H.S.
Sophie Ayer – 9th grade, McCallum H.S.
Kaya Fagerstrom – 9th grade, McCallum H.S.
Laoise Matsumoto – 9th grade, Westwood H.S.
Nayeon (Nicole) Kim – 9th grade, Austin H.S.

 

2nd violin
Dr. Su-Un Kim – Texas Tech University
Nick Hammel – 12th grade, LASA H.S.
Ms. Younnie Wall – B.M. from Chuyge University for the Arts, Seoul, Korea
Polaron Posadas – 9th grade, Westwood H.S.
Hoigum Lindsy Park – graduate student, UT Austin
Yoe-Chan Moon – 9th grade, LASA H.S.

 

Viola
Ms. Mikyoung Choi – Diploma from Mannheim, Germany
Chet Fagerstrom – 12th grade, LASA H.S.
Ms. Katja Lindner – Music minister at the Austin First Cumberland Presbyterian Church
Yoe-Jun Moon -11th grade, Anderson H.S.

 

Cello
Sage Lee – 12th grade, LASA H.S.
Ms. Terri Freeland – M.M. from UT Austin
Ms. Rachel Horvitz – Orchestra director, Hill Country M.S.
Daniel Hur Meglino – 8th grade, Hill Country M.S.

 

Bass
Ms. Luzvic Backstrom – Orchestra director, LASA H.S.