Hot cool jazz at St. pHilip's series
The Rob Boone Quartet will perform "Hot Cool Jazz" as part of the St. Philip's Friends of Music series on Friday.
The quartet - Rob Boone on piano and trombone, Ed DeLucia on guitar, Jack Wood on bass and Fred Hayes on drums - will rearrange a page from the classic jazz songbook and mix in some solo piano works and original works.
The band's namesake is familiar to Tucson audiences as a member of the Big Band Express, the Twilight Band, Tucson Jazz Orchestra, Original Wildcat Jass Band, Tucson Latin Jazz Orchestra and the Robert Shaw band, according to a press release.
DeLucia has been part of the Tucson jazz community since 1982 while Woods has played bass with a number of jazz greats. Percussionist Hayes has played with national jazz artists including Dianne Schurr and Ann Hampton Callaway.
The concert begins at 7 p.m. at the Bloom Music Center at St. Philip's In The Hills Episcopal Church, 4440 N. Campbell Ave. Admission is a suggested $15 donation to St. Philip's Friends of Music.
2nd Beethoven Sonata Project concert Sunday
A trio of pianists will take on Beethoven's early, middle and late period sonatas on Sunday in the second installment of Dove of Peace Lutheran Church's Beethoven Piano Sonata Project.
The multi-year project's ambitious goal is to perform all 32 of Beethoven's sonatas by leading pianists in comparable stages of their careers. On Sunday, those pianists will be Alexander Tentser, a faculty member of Pima Community College, performing Sonata No. 31, Op. 110; Nehemiah Powers, an award-winning pianist and teacher, performing Sonata No. 21, Op. 53, "Waldstein,"; and Chiew Hwa, a University of Arizona doctoral student, performing Sonata No. 7, Op. 10, No. 3.
The concert begins at 2 p.m. Sunday at Dove of Peace Lutheran Church, 665 W. Roller Coaster Road. Admission is free, although a free-will offering will be taken to benefit Emerge! Center Against Domestic Violence, according to a news release.
VLAD Dracula rises at AEMS concert Sunday
Arizona Early Music Society returns to the reign of Vlad the Impaler at its concert Sunday with Cançonièr.
The ensemble performs "The Black Dragon: Music from the Time of Vlad Dracula" in a program that includes a setting of Michel Beheim's German poem about Vlad. It also will perform music of the Byzantine court and church, Italian and French dances, Balkan folk songs, Turkish music, German songs and Guillaume Dufay's "Lamentation for the Fall of Constantinople," according to program notes.
This is serious turn-back-the-clock music that recalls the reign of the infamous and tyrannical Vlad the Impaler, whose cruel rule of Wallachia - now part of southern Romania - shocked Europe.
But this is not all dark and depressing repression; Cançonièr - Annette Bauer on recorders, percussion, citole and bells; Phoebe Jevtovic on bells; Shira Kammen on vielle and harp; and Tim Rayborn on psaltery and percussion - is known for tossing a little humor into its performances.
Sunday's concert begins at 3 p.m. at St. Philip's In The Hills Episcopal Church, 4440 N. Campbell Ave. Tickets are $25, $22 seniors and $5 for students at the door. Come at 2:30 for an informal talk.
Cathalena E. Burch
