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Festival Underway de la AAA con reportajes televisivos, Baltimore- EEUU
Victoria International Accordion Festival, BC – Canada
El Intérprete Julien Labro con la Orquesta Sinfónica de Detroit - EEUU
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BREAKING NEWS: Passing of Ralph Stricker - USASteve Roxton/Jean Dauvin Concert, Stockport – UKMiroslav Lelyukh & Artem Khachaturov Perform Piazolla, Kaliningrad - RussiaMonarch Accordions/YMA Music Receives 2012 Denver Award - USAThe Mahones - Across the USA, 2012! Tour - USA‘Heir of the Dog’ New James Keane CD, Dublin – Republic of IrelandAccordions and Fuel Efficiency, Hyundai TV Advert - USA14 Years Ago’ – Holland’s First Accordion Museum OpensSesame Street and Zydeco - USA
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Richard Galliano Master Class, Normandy – FranceOrquestra de Acordeon de Brusque, Festival de Música de Câmara de Brusque - Brazil
Marco Lo Russo Tribute to Piazzolla Recital, Latina - ItalyHenry Doktorski @ Glimmerglass Music Festival, New York State - USALácides Romero Concert, Barranquilla - ColombiaRomano Viazzani Entertains, London - UKBeto Caetano Performing, Santiago – BrazilIII Festival International "Accordion Spectacular" - Portugal
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Gary Dahl New and Updated Music - USA
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Richness of the Tones CD by Esra Pehlivanli (Viola) and Marko Kassl (Accordion)Help Desk, Information needed, Readers CommentsSubmit Your Question, CommentSUBMIT NOW |
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Registrado para la CIA "VI Orquesta Mundial de Acordeón” in Spoleto - Italiaby Joan C. Sommers |
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 La CIA se complace en anunciar la “VI Orquesta Mundial de Acordeón”, que se presentará durante la 65 edición de la Copa Mundial en Spoleto, Italia.Le damos la bienvenida a este emocionante evento Internacional de Acordeón, animando a su participación en la histórica “VI Orquesta Mundial de Acordeón”. El VI WAO se llevará a cabo el viernes 24 de agosto en el impresionante teatro “Giancarlo Menotti” (foto de arriba). Los miembros de la CIA volverán a incluir músicos de diferentes países, entre ellos el presidente Raymond Bodell, muchos oficiales de la CIA y los delegados que asistieron al 128 Congreso de la CIA. La inscripción para la “VI Orquesta Mundial de Acordeón” está disponible en línea. Los amantes del acordeón de todo el mundo están invitados a unirse y a participar en un evento divertido, de alta calidad. ¡Corre! Porque las plazas son limitadas. Para información sobre directores hay que ver la página de internet de la “VI Orquesta Mundial de Acordeón”, éstos son Joan Sommers (Fundador de la Orquesta de Acordeón de la CIA) y Torsten Petzold (Alemania). Además se encontrarán las notas al programa sobre las obras y otras instrucciones e información. La orquesta presentará dos piezas: - “Paragon March” por Anthony Galla-Rini, dirigida por Torsten Petzold (Alemania) - Las selecciones de E.T. (El Extraterrestre) por John Williams, arreglada y dirigida por Joan Cochran Sommers (EE.UU.). |
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Festival Underway de la AAA con reportajes televisivos, Baltimore- EEUUby Pamela Tom |
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| El 11 de julio, la Asociación de Acordeonistas Americanos (AAA) puso en marcha un Festival que se prolongará hasta el 15 de Julio. Aquí tenemos un informe de las noticias tomadas en la AAA “Press y Squeeze” Los anunciantes presentes fueron: Deffner Music Publications, Music Magic, Accordions USA, Alessandrini, Ottavianelli Accordions Factory, Pancordion, Pigini srl, Roland, Roland-USA, Scandalli, Titano, Victoria Accordions, SqueezinArt, The New England Accordion Museum, Petosa Accordions and Brandoni. Un informe completo de este Festival estará en las noticias de esta semana. Foto de Debajo de Steve Albini y Semichastnaya Tatiana, presentadoras del Festival de la AAA. |
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Victoria International Accordion Festival, BC – Canadaby Rob Howard |
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 El 6 º Festival Internacional de Acordeón Victoria se llevó a cabo el fin de semana del 19 al 22 de Junio. El festival comenzó con un concurso de acordeón, que se celebró en el hotel Comfort & Conference Centre en Victoria.Alexander Sevastian , con algunos invitados especiales, fueron los titulares de un concierto "Noche de Rusia" el viernes 20 de Julio a las 19:30 horas, en la Iglesia Presbiteriana de San Andrés. El popular acordeonista Kerry Christensen y sensacional trío de Rusia Voronezh se subieron al escenario de la Plaza del Mercado el sábado 21 de Julio, junto con muchos otros eventos gratuitos a partir de las 13:00, como el desfile de Acordeón. El internacionalmente aclamado Cuarteto Gelato, también hizo hincapié en el festival con su concierto la noche del sábado 21 de Julio, en la Iglesia Presbiteriana de San Andrés, a las 19:30 horas. Por último, el festival culminó el domingo con un concierto de los ganadores del concurso en el Hotel Confort. Para más información, e-mail: contact@bcaccordion.ca |
El Intérprete Julien Labro con la Orquesta Sinfónica de Detroit - EEUUby Rita Davidson Barnea |
 La noche del viernes 13 de Julio, el Jazz Brasileño sonó en el tercer fin de semana de conciertos al aire libre en Edsel y Eleanor Ford House en Grosse Pointe Shores, celebrados anualmente. Éste género fue interpretado por la Orquesta Sinfónica de Detroit, dirigida por el maestro Carolyn Kuan.El programa incluyó al acordeonista Labro Julien, graduado por la Universidad Estatal de Wayne y co-líder de la Django Reinhardt, inspirada en el grupo Hot Club de Detroit. También actuaron artistas de origen brasileño como el cantante-guitarrísta Paulinho Garcia y la polaca Grazyna Auguscik, vocalista de jazz en un programa de canciones de la célebre Antonio Carlos Jobim. Julián García y su colaboradores habituales tocaron música de Brasil en la noche temática de la música brasileña, ofreciendo muchos temas favoritos como 'La chica de Ipanema " y "Adiós Nonino ", de Piazzolla. Con una Maestría en Estudios de Jazz y Composición Musical, Labro ha actuado en numerosas salas de jazz y festivales, además de ser el arreglista de varios grupos profesionales, como la cantante Cassandra Wilson, ganadora un Grammy por "Otro país". Para más información, e-mail: julien@julienlabro.com |
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by Ron Ostromecki
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  To all my accordion colleagues: With great sadness I wish to announce the passing (20 July 2012) of an accordion giant, and my very good friend, Ralph Stricker. Ralph is the author of the landmark book "Jazz Theories and Improvisation for the Accordion". He was also a noted professional Blackjack player in his earlier years and he wrote books on that subject as well. Ralph was a kind man who readily offered his musical knowledge to anyone who requested it. I will miss his friendly calls and kind words. We offer our condolences and prayers to his loving, caring daughter Kathy in her hour of loss. Ron Ostromecki |
by Rob Howard
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 The touring duo Steve Roxton (Jersey) and Jean Dauvin (France) were the guests at the Cheshire-based Stockport Accordion Club on July 18th, entertaining in a largely French musette style. Their performance certainly went down very well with the large audience, who were sent home in a happy mood.The concert opened with a set from the Stockport Accordion Band (MD Derek Stubbs), who played the march ‘Accordion Friends’, the traditional Polish waltz Szla Dzieweczka, and a lively waltz from Venezuela called ‘La Partida’. Other contributions came from Helen Rich with the ‘Trieste Overture’, a Stockport Accordion Club Quartet who played ‘Sunset Tango’ (Jerry Mayes) and ‘Crackerjack’ (GS Mathis), and Stockport AC Vice President Walter Perrie, who performed the music from Lehar’s ‘Merry Widow’. Steve Roxton began the guest spot singing and playing some Johnny Cash songs, followed by the ‘Fields of Athenry’, then a typical bierkeller medley in which he had everybody ‘schunkling’ up and down, side to side. He then brought on Jean Dauvin, and they played together in French musette mode. Jean then went solo, including demonstrating some of the impressive sounds of his MusicTech digital accordion. Their pieces included ‘March des Accordeonists Lyonnaise’, ‘Under Paris Skies’, ‘Fleur du Jura’, ‘Luci e Ombre’, ‘Jealousy’, ‘Reine de Musette’, ‘La Vie En Rose’, ‘La Seine’, ‘Pigalle’, ‘Reve de Jockey’, and many more. At the end many CDs and DVDs were sold, a mark of how well they went down with the audience. Steve Roxton and Jean Dauvin are also performing on their tour, as follows: July 21st – Middlesbrough Accordion Group July 22nd – Rosley Village Hall, Cumbria July 23rd – Black Country Accordion Club, Rowley Regis, West Midlands For further information email: robaccord5@hotmail.com |
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| The very different sound of accordion and organ performing Piazolla. This video is from the concert "In the Style of Tango" held July 7th at the Cathedral in Kaliningrad. Miroslav Lelyukh (accordion) and Artem Khachaturov (organ) as part of 'Project Organ +'. |
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 On July 11th, the Denver Award Program honored the achievements of Monarch Accordions/YMA Music.The Monarch Accordion Company was founded in Denver, Colorado in 1946 and in 1976 it was purchased by professional accordionist Mike Aman. Mike Aman assisted by his wife Alice, has spent 40 years in the accordion field as a teacher, professional player and businessman. Virtuoso accordion orchestras from YMA Music School have won first place at virtually every major North American accordion competition plus many solo student competition successes. "Each year, the Denver Award Program identifies companies they believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category. The Denver Award Program was established to recognize the best of local businesses in our community." |
by Harley Jones
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 A just released video of tour snippets from The Mahones 2012 American tour which includes quite a bit of their accordionist Kate McConnell, picture left. |
by Rob Howard
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 2-row button accordionist James Keane, originally from Dublin but for based in New York since the 1970s, has recorded a new CD ‘Heir of the Dog’. James Keane, highly regarded by his peers in Ireland and the USA, is one of those responsible for establishing distinct styles of accordion playing in Irish traditional music. The tracks are: Reels: Jimmy Goblin's/Throw It Across/The Humours of Toomagh Reels: The Ladies Pantalettes/The Shepherd's Daughter/Kilty Town Jigs: Slieve Russell/Old Tipperary/The Hungry Rocks Hornpipes: The Humours of Tullycrine/The New Phone Reels: Spindle Shanks/John Brennan's/The Humours of Loughrea Jigs: The Woods of Old Limerick/Scully Casey's/The Sturgeon O'Carolan's Dream Reels: The Joys of Summer/Ferny Hill/The Old Wexford Reels: Julia Delaney's/Pretty Molly/Bill McEvoy's No.1 Jigs: Tommy Mulhair's/Josie's Visit/The Legacy Reels: The Grand Spey/The Galtee/Lucky In Love For further information email: support@allcelticmusic.com |
by Rita Davidson Barnea
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| If accordions can have a month, so can fuel efficiency says the latest Hyundai USA TV advertisement. |
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 The Accordions Worldwide news for July 24th 1998 included an item announcing the opening of Holland’s first accordion and harmonica museum. This museum is still flourishing in 2012, and has its own website. ACCORDION MUSEUM IN THE NETHERLANDS Contributed by Henk Kuik The first Dutch Accordion and Harmonica Museum "De Muse" opened last month with a collection of over 100 bellows instruments. The museum shows the development of these instruments from the Chinese Sheng to modern day instruments including bandoneons, concertinas, melodeons, accordions and some automatic instruments such as the Tanzbar and Hohner Organa. The 19th Century building is situated in Kerkplein 12, 6581 AC Malden, (near Nijmegen) in the southeast of Holland and also includes an accordion shop and a Music-café where musicians can meet and play. For further information email: museum@demuse.nl |
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| This just published video of Zydeco by the very famous childrens TV Show Sesame Street is pure FUN. So Enjoy!! They even included an education text. Zydeco is a form of uniquely American roots or folk music. It evolved in southwest Louisiana in the early 19th century from forms of "la la" Creole music. As of 2012, the rural Creoles of southwest Louisiana and southeast Texas continue to sing in Louisiana Creole French. Zydeco combines elements of an older American musical style that began in the late 1700s, Cajun music, a style that consists of French fiddle tunes, Irish Celtic fiddle tunes, German button accordion, Latin rhythms, and Appalachian styles. Zydeco music was born as a blend of Cajun music and two other "new" American music styles, blues and rhythm and blues. |
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 Famous French accordion virtuoso Richard Galliano leads a master class at the Salle de Chaussonniere, Avranches, Normandy, on Monday July 23rd, 2pm to 4pm. For further information email: martine.croce@instantpluriel.com |
Orquestra de Acordeon de Brusque, Festival de Música de Câmara de Brusque - Brazilby Harley Jones |
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 I Festival de Música de Câmara de BrusqueÉ com grande orgulho que a Orquestra de Acordeon de Brusque participa do I Festival de Música de Câmara de Brusque, que acontece nos dias 27,28 e 29 de julho de 2012 no Centro Empresarial. Os passaportes para as três noites estão à venda na recepção do CESCB e com os alunos da Escola de Música no valor de R$ 15,00 para as 3 noites. O ingresso para cada noite individual será de R$ 10,00. Acompanhe a programação e prestigie! |
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by Rob Howard
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 Accordionist Marco Lo Russo performs at the Fondi Music Festival on Sunday July 22nd. This concert, which takes place at 10pm in the Cortile della Giudea (Courtyard in the Jewish district of Judea), is a tribute to Astor Piazzolla, who died 20 years ago, and includes such pieces as ‘Oblivion’, ‘Libertango’, Meditango Vuelvo’, and ‘Muerte del Angel e Chiquilin’ by Bachin. For further information email: dina.tomezzoli@alice.it |
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 Accordionist Henry Doktorski (picture left) will play in the orchestra for 9 performances of Kurt Weill's opera ‘Lost in the Stars’ at the Glimmerglass Music Festival, at the Alice Busch Opera Theater, Otesgo Lake, New York State. The festival runs from July 14th to August 24th.Performance dates are: 22nd July 2012 28th July 2012 3rd August 2012 7th August 2012 11th August 2012 16th August 2012 18th August 2012 20th August 2012 25th August 2012 Check times nearer the concert date as some might be matinee performances. Presented by Cape Town Opera, ‘Lost in the Stars’ is the story of a South African priest's spiritual crisis, based on ‘Cry, the Beloved Country’, the classic novel by Alan Paton, and starring 2012 Glimmerglass Artist in Residence Eric Owens. For further information email: blesavoy@glimmerglass.org |
by Rob Howard
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 El próximo 26 de Julio a las 6 pm ,el Acordeonista Colombiano Lácides Romero, ofrecerá un Concierto en DUO con la Clavecinista Liliana Hernandez en el Auditorio MARIO SANTODOMINGO de la Ciudad de Barranquilla. Este Concierto ha sido organizado por el FONDO REGIONAL DE GARANTIAS DE BARRANQUILLA con motivo de la celebración de los 15 años de fundado. Gracias por tu colaboración Lácides Romero |
by Rob Howard
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 Romano Viazzani plays easy-listening continental style music with guitarist Ray Gallo at the Oxo Tower Brasserie, London, on Sunday 29th July 29th, between 12 noon and 4 pm.For further information email: romanoviazzani@hotmail.co.uk Three CD's available online at: Romano Viazzani |
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| Beto Caetano performs on August 3rd, 9pm, at the Churrascaria Gaucha, Santiago, RS, Brazil. The highly accomplished Beto Caetano has performed at festivals and venues in Brazil since the early 1980s, and has recorded 34 albums to date. |
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 The III Festival International "Accordion Spectacular" will be held, August 2nd and 3rd in Lourinhã and Praia da Areia Branca, Portugal. Performers listed on the poster left. |
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by Gary Dahl
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 Gary Dahl - performer, composer, arranger, recording artist and music educator announces the following new music titles for purchase on-line. 'The Swan', catalog:DH0244. Samples for these music are now available at the MusicForAccordion web site. The music is in eSheet format e-mailed directly to your computer. Easy purchase with credit card. |
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by Joan C. Sommers
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 CD Reviews Index for the Review of Richness of the Tones CD by Esra Pehlivanli (Viola) and Marko Kassl (Accordion), in English language, reviewed by Joan Cochran Sommers. |
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