Reade Park - Mini Guitar Concert - Omni Foundation
The Omni Foundation for the Performing Arts presents Reade Park playing two movements from the Jose Sonata and a prelude by Sergei Rachmaninoff as part of Omni's Midweek Melodies series, filmed in San Francisco.
Intro: 0:00
Reade Park, guitar
Sonata para guitarra by Antonio José (1902-1936)
- 0:08 - I. - Allegro Moderato
- 6:19 - III. Pavane Triste
Prélude Op. 23, No. 5 by Sergueï Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
10:26
About the Jose Sonata
Sonata para Guitarra (1933) by Antonio José
Antonio José (1902-1936) spent much of his 20s where he wrote many of the works that first gained him recognition. Offered a job back in his home town in 1929, he became director of the Burgos choir. When Nationalist forces overthrew the government in 1936, they began rounding up their enemies. José, who initially felt himself safe from persecution, was soon engulfed in the wave of politically motivated violence and was shot by a band of vigilantes. His 1933 Sonata para Guitarra, only partially premiered by Sainz de la Maza, is his only work for guitar. Its first complete performance had to wait until 1981, when Cuban-American guitarist Ricardo Iznaola played it for the Spanish radio broadcast Lunes Musicales de Radio Nacional.
About the Western Classical Music tradition
- The music style has constantly changed to reflect the changing experiences of people throughout that time period.
- Music is a nonverbal language that provides access to the feelings evoked by the social and cultural traditions of different times and places.
- Musical experience opens our minds as very few other things can.
The history of this music is usually divided into six large historical periods:
- 1000-1400 Medieval
- 1400-1600 Renaissance
- 1600-1750 Baroque
- 1730-1820 Classical
- 1815-1910 Romantic
- 1900-present 20th and 21st Century Music
About the artist:
Reade Park is a rising guitarist and composer from San Francisco, California.
- He won first prize at the Guitar Foundation of America’s 2022 International Youth Competition, Senior Division, as well as top prizes at the 2023 University of Rhode Island and 2024 Boston GuitarFest Open International competitions.
- In 2024, Harvard University awarded Reade its prestigious John Green Prize for Composition.
Video Production:
Matthew Washburn
Audio Mastering:
Sienna Digital, Half Moon Bay
Location:
Barbro Osher Recital Hall at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music
Recorded: July 17, 2024
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