Anna Maria Mendieta & Tango Del Cielo

Performing Artist And Touring Concert-Show Los Angeles and San Francisco, CA United States

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Harpist Anna Maria Mendieta performs Classical to Tango as a soloist, with orchestras, and with her touring ensembles including: "Tango Del Cielo" (Tango From Heaven) - A multimedia concert! ...

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CONCERTO PREMIERE "San José Chamber Orchestra: Invigorating Model of Local" Publication: Classical Voice Magazine By David Bratman San Jose, CA The San José Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Barbara Day Turner, lured a near-capacity audience to Le Petit Trianon in downtown San José for a season-opening concert on Sunday, even though the composers featured were not world-famous names, showing that big headliners are not needed for a popular or successful concert. All the works on the program were written in a variants of a semi-consonant modern style. All were ingratiating works of substance. All three works were concertos of a kind, and the two by the living composers were receiving their first performances. Pratorius’ Claroscuro en flor was the most conventionally structured of the three, with plenty of unaccompanied passages for the soloist, and dialogues with the orchestra, shaped into the traditional three movements. The solo instrument, however, was a harp — something a bit unusual, though not unprecedented. Anna Maria Mendieta was the harpist. She was fluent and invigorating. Pratorius, himself a guitarist, had her play some guitar-like plucking sounds, along with a lot of needling away at the highest strings of the instrument, some striking bell-like sounds, and some fingernail strumming that sounded less like a guitar and more like an autoharp. The work as a whole was primarily modal, without taking particularly after any earlier modal composers to my ear. The orchestration, full and occasionally witty.

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