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SPRING CONCERT  -  Season 2009-2010

Saturday March 6 , 8:00 pm

Sounds of Spain

 Georges Bizet

“Gipsy Dance” from “Carmen”

Conductor Patrick Botti and the Waltham Symphony Orchestra invited for this concert Flamenco soloist and singer La Conja”. Do not miss the excitement of the music by Bizet performed the way it was intended.

La Conja, Flamenco Artist

La Conja, (Conja Abdessalan) is one of Flamenco World’s most versatile artists. She has developed a substantial international reputation as a dancer, singer, and choreographer.

She has performed at the prestigious Guggenheim Work and Process Series, in collaboration with New Yorks World Music Institute.

She has toured nationally and internationally with such artists as Jose Molina and Jose Greco featured as solo dancer, and has also appeared at Lincoln Center with Sarita Montiel.

Recent performances also include: Oregon Shakespeare Festival, in “Lorca in a Green Dress” written by 2003 Pulitzer Prize winner Nilo Cruz. JVC Jazz Festival with composer Maria Schneider. Rhythm, Ragas and Roots, with composer Osvaldo Golijov at Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Dancing into the 21 Century for Global India, a Kathak & Flamenco Fusion at American Museum of Natural History of New York. And The Great Mother Conference with poet Robert Bly.

As a choreographer her works have been premiered at The Teatro Albeniz in Madrid, Spain, The Joyce Theater in New York, Dance Theater Workshop and the Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors Concert Series. La Conja has been awarded three New York State Council on the Arts grants for her choreography. And she is commissioned repeatedly throughout the US to give master classes and choreograph for other companies. She has taught workshops at UCLA, Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music, New York Universities Tisch School of the Arts,University of New Mexico, and Hamilton College. She has also worked very closely with theater Director Karin Coonrod on The Phoenician Woman performed at American Repertory Theater Cambridge & Moscow Art Theater..

 Joachin Rodrigo

“Concierto de Aranjuez”

Aaron Larget-Caplan, Guitar

“Aaron Larget-Caplan is a riveting artist whose musical styling begs immediate attention. His classical guitar performance was a treasure...”

-G. Acosta, Washington Post

With performances in Spain, Italy, & on both US coasts as a soloist & chamber musician, Aaron Larget-Caplan rides the razor's edge of the guitar. He is a unique performer and communicator, who is able to link the difficult & not in music as well as other art forms.  Born in the guitar capital of Oklahoma & raised in Colorado, Aaron began playing the classical guitar at age 16 & gave his debut at the Tabor Opera House one year later.  Since then he has devoted his life to the performance & study of the guitar, & the concert stage.  He has appeared repeatedly on National Public Radio in New York, Oregon, Colorado & Maine.

Aaron’s released his debut CD, Tracing a wheel on water in 2006 & features three world premiere recordings.  The great American composer Ned Rorem called it "Musical, affecting and skilled." (Click Here for reviews). Aaron’s second CD featuring works from the New Lullaby Project will be out in 2009, and new solo lullabies by composers David Leisner, Kevin Siegfried, Ryan Vigil, Mark Small, Eric Schwartz, Nolan Stolz, Scott Wheeler & many more (Click HERE for info).

A versatile musician, Aaron is the founder of ¡Con Fuego! a Spanish music and dance group. He also founded 'Diablo y Tango' a guitar & violin duo that focuses on the music of Paganini, Piazzolla and other Latin American composers. Aaron has performed major works for string quartet & guitar, voice and guitar & choir and guitar by such composers as Stravinsky, Ned Rorem, Astor Piazzolla & Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco.

Program Notes

Maurice Ravel

“Boléro”

Join Patrick Botti leading the Waltham Symphony Orchestra in his acclaimed rendition of the famed “Bolero” by Maurice Ravel. He will be joined especially for the occasion by Flamenco Artist, La Conja

Manuel De Falla

“El Amor Brujo”

Flamenco Artist and Singer, La Conja, will be the featured artist for this masterpiece from De Falla, including the famed “Ritual Dance of Fire”.

Angel Villoldo

“El Choclo” (Tango Criollo)

Patrick Botti  and the  WSO  will perform this famed tango with the participation of WSO’s co-concertmaster, Elliott Markow.