CMFW Spring Festival 2018, “Welcome All”: Celebrating Refugee Families
Love Concert
Benefiting the iACT for Refugees (Interfaith Action of Central Texas)
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Please incude LOVE CONCERT in Special Instructions
Featuring
CMFW Orchestra, Refugee Students’ Performance, and Guest Speakers
WHEN: Saturday, April, 21, 2018 at 7 pm
WHERE: Oak Hill United Methodist Church, 7815 Highway 290 West , Austin, Texas 78736
COST: FREE (donations gratefully accepted – all go to the designated Austin refugee organization iACT for Refugees.)
Please follow the links below to listen to excerpts of the Love Concert:
- CMFW Spring 2018 Love Concert – Orchestra
- Francesco Mastromatteo performs Giovanni Sollima “Lamentatio “
- Children from Doss Elementary performing at the Love Concert:
Funga Alafia – West African Welcome Song
Part 1
Part 2
PROGRAM
Welcome Drum
Funga Alafia – West African Welcome Song
Ye Toop Doram – West Afghan Ball Game Song
Refugee Students from Doss Elementary School Chirstina Tannert, music director
Guest Speakers
Felrola Derakhshani, Chair of UN Association-Austin Chapter
Simone Talma Flowers, Executive Director of iACT ( (Interfaith Action of Central Texas)
CMFW Chamber Orchestra
Instructors: Eugene Gratovich (Concert Master) and Luzvic Bacstrom
Concerto for Two Violins and Cello in d minor, RV 565, Op. 3, No.11 – Vivaldi (1678 – 1741)
Allegro – Largo e Spiccato – Allegro
Soloists (CMFW Young Music Ambassadors):
Nick Hammel, 1st violin
Chet Fagerstrom, 2nd violin
Sage Lee, cello
Cello Concerto No. 1, in C Major – Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Moderato – Adagio – Finale: Allegro molto
Soloist: Francesco Mastromatteo, cello
Program Notes By the CMFW Artistic Director
The two works in this program have a truly romantic “open” quality even if they come from the Baroque and the Classical Era. The intensity of both concerti and the inspiration of their melodic ideas are extremely personal, and speak directly to the audience. In the first one the counterpoint is linked to a celebration of light and colors in the orchestration and in the continuous changes in the orchestra textures. This celebration of different shades in the strings makes the music speaking to the innermost emotions of both the performers and the public.
The Haydn concerto is a masterpiece in melodic beauty connected to an absolute mastery in controlling the formal development of each segment of those melodies. The brilliant rhythmic articulations of all three movements in fact comes straight from the ability of Haydn to separate small fragments of the melody transforming them in exciting musical and emotional adventures.
In the end the two truly “open masterpieces” invite us to “Welcome” humanity in its beauty, diversity, uniqueness.
Orchestra Members
