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The San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band presents
Rhapsody
Rapsodia en Chapultepec

Dr. Roberto-Juan González, Artistic Director/Conductor
Daniel Glover, Piano Soloist
8 pm, Saturday, September 22
Ebenezer Lutheran Church, 678 Portola Dr. (across from Tower Market), SF
Info: http://www.sflgfb.org; 415-255-1355
Admission Free
 
Piano virtuoso Daniel Glover performs Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” as the centerpiece of the San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band’s fall concert, Rhapsody/Rapsodia en Chapultepec.
 
Conducted by Artistic Director Dr. Roberto-Juan Gonzalez, Rhapsody/Rapsodia en Chapultepec – rhythms of Latin America & 88 keys waxing rhapsodic – is a part of the San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band’s 30th anniversary season.
 
Reception and photo exhibition sponsored by A Woman’s Eye Gallery follows the concert.
Program features:
 
·         George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue and Richard Addinsell’s Warsaw Concerto, featuring piano virtuoso Daniel Glover.
 
·         Carlos Chávez’s Canción de Adelita and Marcha Provinciana, (a tribute to the Zacatecas March) from the Chapultepec Suite.
 
·       José Pablo Moncayo’s famous orchestral composition, Huapango, variations on Mexican folk and dance music.
 
·         Jaime Texidor’s lively paso doble Amparita Roca.
 
·         George Gershwin’s Cuban Overture, a later work dominated by Carribean rhythms and Cuban native percussion following a trip to Havana.
 
·       Aaron Copland’s El Salon Mexico, based on Mexican folk songs and first performed by the Mexican Symphony Orchestra.
 
About Daniel Glover

Mr. Glover’s critically acclaimed 2005 world premiere performance of Eric Zeisl’s Concerto in C major (1952) with the Saratoga Symphony was named one of the “Top 10 Best Classical Concerts in the Bay Area, 2005” by the San Jose Mercury News. He has performed in 22 countries throughout Europe, Asia, Canada, the Caribbean, as well as 42 states in the US.  He received his Master’s degree at New York’s Juilliard School and a Bachelor’s degree from New York University.  He has performed with members of the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, and recently recorded the Mozart Concerto in C minor, K. 491 with the Szeged Philharmonic Orchestra in Hungary. He has served on the faculties of New York University, University of the Virgin Islands, University of San Francisco, and Notre Dame de Namur University.  Mr. Glover has recorded seven CDs for the DG 2 label, including the complete solo piano music by Ravel.
 
For more information on this concert or the San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band, the Official Band of the City of San Francisco, go to http://www.sflgfb.org.
 
To sign up for the San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band newslist, go to http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/sflgfreedomband/.
 
The SFLGFB is a 501(c)3 nonprofit, proud to be sponsored in part by Grants for the Arts of the San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund, the San Francisco Arts Commission and the Jon Sims Endowment Fund for the Performing Arts.
 


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