Nadja Plays Piazzolla: The Sounds of Brazil and Argentina September 11, 2008

Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg’s inaugural set of concerts as New Century Chamber Orchestra's Music Director will include a selection of Brazilian and Argentine music, featuring herself as soloist on Piazzolla’s Four Seasons of Buenos Aires and Ginastera’s Glosses on Themes by Pablo Casals. The program opens with the world premiere of an NCCO commission, Clarice Assad’s new Impressions, Suite for Chamber Orchestra. The Villa-Lobos work, perhaps his best-known, was originally written for soprano and eight cellos, and will be presented in a new arrangement by Clarice Assad.

Program:
Clarice Assad: Impressions, Suite for Chamber Orchestra (NCCO Commission, World Premiere)
Alberto Ginastera: Glosses on Themes by Pablo Casals
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, violin
Piazzolla (arr. Leonid Desyatnikov): Four Seasons of Buenos Aires
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, violin
Heitor Villa-Lobos (arr. Clarice Assad): Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5

Program repeats in 3 other Bay Area locations:
Saturday, Sept. 13 at 8pm, Herbst Theatre, 401 Van Ness Ave., San Francisco
Sunday, Sept. 14 at 5pm, Osher Marin Jewish Community Center, 200 N. San Pedro Road, San Rafael
Tuesday, Sept. 16 at 8pm, First United Methodist Church, 625 Hamilton Ave., Palo Alto

Official Website: http://www.ncco.org