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Introducing a
NEW ensemble of CLASSICAL STRINGS
intent on some SERIOUS FUN!
Featuring 2 violins, 2 violas,
cello and bass
plus an occasional solo woodwind,
this innovative band puts a FRESH, HOT
spin on CLASSICAL music!
CutTime
Simfonica is developing a CONCERT
CLUB format
(CLAM CLUB, CLAM SLAM,
SIMF ROCK, E-CLASS)
and you may soon
DISCOVER THE
LIVELIEST CLASSICAL
MUSIC in clubs around Detroit!
From sexy Beethoven to Negro SPIRITUALS to sassy JAZZ standards
along with
several DEEP MUSICAL ADVENTURES by
bassist and 2010 Kresge Artist Fellow Rick
Robinson,
Simfonica ROCKS with the powerful voices of Detroit Symphony Orchestra
(DSO)
musicians.
Kim Kennedy,
Rick Robinson, Geoff Applegate, Jim
VanValkenburg, Robert deMaine, Caroline Coade
Sat.
MAY 8, 2010 8:30pm
SIMFONICA INAUGURAL CONCERT & FUNDRAISER
in the new VIRGIL H. CARR CULTURAL ARTS
CENTER (link)
The Carr Center is an incubator for
black artists which has chosen Rick Robinson to become
a RESIDENT COMPOSER!
The center is located in downtown Detroit
overlooking Harmonie Park.
This full-length program will feature
premieres for their debut CD, transcriptions
of Beethoven, Bach and Ellington, and the
comic Introduction
to
his grand opus MIGHTY LOVE Sextet for
Strings.
Joining Robinson are these PRINCIPAL DSO PLAYERS:
Geoff Applegate,
Kim Kennedy, Jim
VanValkenburg, Caroline Coade
and superstar cellist Robert
deMaine
who will be featured in a beautiful
Adagio by J. S. Bach's. Michigan Opera
Theater Oboist Sally Pituch
will premiere the Gigue Rondo.
Proceeds will fund the commercial
RECORDING to be released in early 2011. Checks
for tickets and tax-deductible
contributions must be made out to ARTS LEAGUE OF
MICHIGAN.
To add your name to the mailing list or comment,
please email info@cuttime.com.
Here's an interview
on WDET with Craig Fahle May 6, 2010.
Here's a 2010 Detroit News article
on the Carr Center.
And here's 2009 MetroTimes article
on the Center.
Sat.
August 14, 2010 6:00 pm
HEIDELBERG
PROJECT D.O.T.S. FESTIVAL
Mr.
CutTime will adapt some of his sextet
arrangements and compositions for a
string QUARTET for this growing summer
festival celebrating music and dance. Acclaimed artist Tyree
Guyton will create art all day inspired
by the music, the children and the
dancing. This festival is FREE and open
to the public. Musicians will be:
Derek
Reeves and John McLaughlin Williams,
violins
John Madison, viola
Rick Robinson, bass
Hear them play classical music that
inspires people to dance! People will
certainly dance to Rick's City of Trees. For more information
call 313-974-6894.
Tues.
November 9, 2010 8:00pm
CRANBROOK
MUSIC GUILD
This
program features the Detroit-area
PREMIERE of Robinson's complete 2007 SEXTET FOR STRINGS
in A-Major entitled MIGHTY
LOVE. This delightfully fresh
work will feature the A TEAM above and superstar
Robert deMaine will perform
another MIND-MELTING solo! The program
will include Duke Ellington's Martin
Luther King movement and the WORLD
PREMIERE of Robinson's beautiful Idyll for Solo
English Horn plus suprises.
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For more
information and MP3
samples of Rick Robinson's compositions
which won him a 2010 Kresge Artist Fellowship,
click here.
CutTime
Simfonica also features these Romantic and
Jazz Classics:
Beethoven:
Beethoven's 5th (1st mvmt.), Fur Elise
Beethoven:
Pathetique Piano Sonata (1st mvmt.)
Massenet:
Meditation from Thais
Bach: Adagio from
Unaccompanied Violin Sonata in C
Rachmaninoff:
Prelude VI, Op. 23, No. 5 (Fandango)
Miles Davis: So
What, Blue In Green
Satie: Gymnopedie
No. 1
Brubeck: Take
Five
Enesco: Romanian
Rhapsody
David Robinson:
Sweet Chariot Jubilee
Albinoni: Adagio
If you'd like to
have a CutTime Concert in your community,
please call CutTime at 313-680-8104!
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