Chamber Music Series: Los Angeles Guitar Quartet

The Grammy award-winning LAGQ is comprised of four uniquely accomplished musicians bringing new energy to the concert stage with programs ranging from Bluegrass to Bach. They consistently play to sold-out houses world-wide. Their inventive, critically acclaimed transcriptions of concert masterworks provide a fresh look at the music of the past, while their interpretations of works from the contemporary and world-music realms continually break new ground.

Douglas Lora, Bill Kanengiser, John Dearman, Matt Greif: guitar

Sponsored by Anne and Dick Schneider

Sunday, October 26, 2:00pm

Wheeler Theater

PROGRAM:

From Bach to Brazil

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Danse Négre from African Suite Op. 35
Phillip Houghton: Opals
Beethoven: “Moonlight” Sonata #14, Quasi una fantasia
Hermeto Pascoal: De Sábado pra Dominguinhos
Villa-Lobos: A Lenda do Caboclo
Paulo Bellinati: A Furiosa
J.S. Bach: Allegro, mvt. III from Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, BWV 1048
Douglas Lora: Maracasalsa
William Kanengiser: Air & Ground
Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody #2 in C-sharp minor