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On Sunday, January 27th I am giving a concert at Lake Michigan College in Benton Harbor, MI. The concert is at either 2 or 3 pm-I've seen it listed at both times. I should really figure out the actual time…

The program is:

Ebb and Flow (max/msp and guitar)

Year of the Guitar

1. Waltz for Ruth

2. Willow

3. Dark Valley

4. Of Mist and Sea

5. The Old West

6. Remembrance

Greensleeves

The Red Guitar Suite

1. The Headless Horseman

2. Melancholy

3. La Primavera

4. The Red Guitar

5. La Guitarra

Gymnopedie No. 1 (Satie)

The Lazy Virtuoso on an Imaginary Piano

Scarborough Fair

House of the Rising Sun

Should be fun!

Rob

 

 

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Next Thursday (March 29th) I will be giving a classical guitar concert at Hope College. The program will be:

I.
Canción del Emperador (Luys de Narváez)
Guardame Las Vacas

Greenwood (Robert Lunn)

Suite for Two Guitars (William Lawes)
Larry Malfroid, Guitar

II.

Prelude No. 1 (Heitor Villa-Lobos)

Two Childhood Sketches (Robert Lunn)
Sam’s Lullaby
The Andy Dance

Castles of Spain (Federico Moreno Torroba)
Romance de Los Pinos
Sigüenza
Manzanares del Real

Scarborough Fair Traditional
House of the Rising Sun (Arr. Lunn)

III.

Evensong (Robert Lunn)

Melancholy (Robert Lunn)
Lucidity

Leyenda (Isaac Albéniz)

I love to start my concerts with the pieces by Narváez. Besides the fact that they sound nice, they give me a chance to settle down and focus on playing.

I’m looking forward to the Suite for Two Guitars. Larry Malfroid was my guitar professor at Hope College. He is the reason why I fell in love with this instrument. We first played this piece together many moons ago on my senior recital. We performed it again in 2002 when I was teaching at Hope College.

The prelude by Villa-lobos is one of my favorite classical guitar pieces. I would say it is my 2nd favorite all-time with the gold medal going to Leyenda by Albéniz.

The Castles of Spain pieces are wonderful miniatures written by Torroba. Originally composed for Andres Segovia. From what I have read it is difficult to tell how much is Torroba’s and how much is Segovia’s. Segovia would often make many changes to works composed by a non-guitarist.

Finally, I am looking forward to performing my own pieces and arrangements. I have performed all of these pieces before, except for House of the Rising Sun and Lucidity. It is always interesting performing a piece for the first time. Live performances really show you how well you actually know the piece.

Here is a little blurb from a local news station: http://hollandzeeland.wzzm13.com/news/arts-culture/67548-classical-guitarist-robert-lunn-perform-march-29

-Rob

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Here is an article in a local paper about an upcoming concert:

http://www.heraldpalladium.com/articles/2010/10/21/features/2165241.txt

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