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Metro Staff on December 4, 2019
The Community School of Music and Arts hosts “An Evening with John Daversa.” The Grammy-winning composer and jazz trumpeter has worked with Fiona Apple, Burt Bacharach, Joe Cocker and Herbie Hancock, among other well-known musical artists. He regularly performs with his groups—the Progressive Big Band and the Small Band—and as a conductor…
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C.J. Prusi on September 11, 2019
In anticipation of 2020—and Beethoven’s 250th birthday—the Community School of Music and Arts hosts the latest installment in its a concert series honoring the beautiful sonatas of our good friend, Ludwig van. Composed over the course of three decades, the 32 sonatas are widely recognized as some of the most important compositions…
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Wallace Baine on October 25, 2018
German-born pianist Axel Schmitt, a faculty member at Mountain View’s Community School of Music and Arts, has at least one heavy lift on his bucket list: He’s attempting to perform every one of Beethoven’s piano sonatas—that’s 32 total—before the 250th anniversary of the great composer’s birth in 2020. On Sunday, Schmitt presents…
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