Bring dessert/coffee or cocktail/nosh and take a front-row seat for a beautiful & interesting, live musical recital with insights and Q&A.
Music & Morsels
Bring a cup of coffee/tea & pastry or create a wine/cheese happy hour and take a front row seat at your computer for a live, classical concert, followed by Q&A with the artist.
Classical Guitar Treasures
Wednesday, August 2, 2023
1-2pm (PT), 2-3pm (MT), 3-4pm (CT), 4-5pm (ET)
on Zoom
Join us for the Alliance concert debut of classical guitarist Liz Hogg, who presents and performs a beautiful program of musical treasures.
The 10 Etudes for Guitar by Giulio Regondi represent the pinnacle of technical achievement for 19th-century guitar performance. Dense textures, large stretches, fast scales and arpeggios, and obscure modulations are used in combinations that were unrivaled among his contemporaries. Etude #5 is a particularly fun piece.
Recognized as Paraguayan composer Barrios Mangoré’s masterpiece, the 3-movement work La Catedral (“The Cathedral”), dating from 1921, uses both the ambient sound of the cathedral bells and the internal sound of an organist playing Bach as points of inspiration.
The 6-movement, Suite in G Minor was transcribed for lute by composer Johann Sebastian Bach between the spring of 1727 and the winter of 1731 from his own Cello Suite No. 5.
Heitor Villa-Lobos‘s Étude No. 3, part of his Twelve Études for Guitar, was first published by Max Eschig, Paris, in 1953. The piece, strongly influenced by the didactic works of earlier composers for the guitar.
Save! Get “Early Bird” pricing; purchase before July 31st.
About Liz Hogg
Liz Hogg is a guitarist and composer from Brooklyn, NY. Hogg has been described as possessing “energy, expressive dynamics and phrasing” (American Record Guide), “fantastic work” (Classical Guitar Magazine) and “playing with a more distinctive and original approach that includes quickly-strummed chords, chiming arpeggios, and rapid-fire picking” (Geoff Cabin). Her playing has been further characterized as “strong, precise, and powerful” (Bushwick Music Daily), “radiating in its own light” (New Noise Magazine), carrying “élan and fine precision” (Fanfare), and “displaying a confrontational spectrum of emotions” (Music & Riots). She runs Sonder School of Music in Elmhurst, NY as well as serves as guitar faculty in the remote division of Jubilee University, in addition to her private studio.
As both a classical guitarist and performer of her original music, Hogg has toured twelve countries playing numerous festivals and concert halls, including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and Brookfield Place, as well as Portugal’s Casa da Música and Mexico’s Tlaqná Concert Hall. She has won awards including the Mannes School of Music Dean’s Award, the Maurice Kagan Memorial Scholarship Award for Excellence in an Orchestral Instrument (first guitarist recipient), and was a Fulbright-García Robles Scholarship semi-finalist. Hogg was also the first American to win a fellowship for performance and study at the Lanciano International Guitar Festival in Italy and has received grants from Chamber Music America, the Peter M. Gross fund and Queens College.
Hogg has recorded eleven full-length albums, seven eps, and five singles, self-released and released by labels Mouca, Albany, Acuarela, Marsyas and Don Giovanni. Her recordings and performances have garnered reviews from The New York Times, NME, Big Takeover and MTV. Beyond her solo music, Hogg plays in the band Safer, as well as Esenca Duo and various groups throughout NYC.
Tickets & Notes:
“Early Bird” Ticket: $12.50; available until 48-hours prior to the performance.
“Regular” Tickets: $15; available until the performance begins.
All tickets are 1) are per device, not per person on Zoom, and 2) are non-refundable & non-exchangeable.
Program subject to change; refunds are not available if a program takes place.
The Fine Print:
Fortunately, we’ve had very few issues, but just to be clear…
Your Zoom “Event Link”: The Zoom event link will be emailed to you two days before the event. To help it land in your “inbox,” before registering, please add the following emails to your contacts:
- OMJCC Zoom — Zoom3@marinjcc.org
- JCC Alliance — alliance@marinjcc.org
Registrants are requested to make sure the email w/link has arrived by the evening of July 31st. If the email does not arrive, please see “Troubleshooting” below.
The email w/link will be re-sent to all registrants 1-2 hours prior to the event. NB: However, if it landed somewhere other than in your inbox the first time, it will probably do the same later.
Have a Comcast email? Please refer to this guide: https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/spam-filters-and-email-blocking-new-experience.
Troubleshooting: We will do our best to remedy any issues. Registrants who have NOT received the email w/link are asked to check their email “junk” and “spam” folders. If found, please move the email to your inbox. If the email/link is still not there, please contact James (see below) immediately.
Late Troubleshooting: We will try our best – but cannot guarantee – help with Zoom links to guests contacting Sean less than 15-minutes prior to the event.
Live Only: In agreement with our guides, artists, instructors, special guests, etc., events are not recorded. Make-up sessions are unavailable. Credit/refund is not given for missed events.
Liability: While we will do our best to remedy any issues, The Osher Marin JCC & its Program Partners cannot be held responsible for 1) issues related to Eventbrite or Zoom, 2) ticket buyers not following the instructions above, nor 3) packing, shipping, or deliver services of food/beverages not received in time for tasting events.
Don’t ya just hate “the fine print?!!”
Questions? Email Sean at sfitzgerald@marinjcc.org.
Music & Morsels is created by the Osher Marin JCC (San Rafael, CA) and offered by the National JCC Adult & Senior Alliance. See below for a full list of Alliance Partners.
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