SUEZENNE FORDHAM CHAMBER JAZZ LA

Correction Concert Schedule Spring 2012
Feb.14th Tuesday
March 5th Monday
April 3rd Tuesday
May 7th Monday
June 11 Monday
Donald Wright Auditorium 285 East Walnut
6:30 PM
818 371 7735

CORRECTED SCHEDULE SPrING 2012 SUEZENNE FORDHAM CHAMBER JAZZ LA

CORRECTED SCHEDULE 2012 Spring SUEZENNE FORDHAM CHAMBER JAZZLA
February 14th, Tuesday 2011/March 5th,Monday/April3rd Tuesday/May 7th,Monday/June 11th,Monday
I have added Charlie Domingo, contrabassist to the Tuesday concerts..
Information: 818 371 7735
suezennefg@hotmail.com

NEXT CONCERT: SUEZENNE FORDHAM CHAMBER JAZZ LA"5th Stream Series" Novenmer 7th 2011

Reminding everyone of our next concert November 7th 2011 at the Donald Wright Auditorium, 285 East walnut, Pasadena, Ca. 818 371 7735
Hip, elegant Virtuosic,5th Stream = Jazz-Fusion Classical. performed by great LA Musicians

Free 6:30-9PM
Come on down and have a ball!

JUST DISCOVERED THE STEINWAY MAURICE GAVE ME A FEW YEARS AGO is an "A3"6'4 3/4' Created in 1913!!!!
In perusing information about Steinways, my FAVORITE Piano manufacturer {US made in Astoria LI] last night, I remeasured my second piano.... Turns out it is NOT an "M" but a very rare "A3" and weighs in at 645 pounds.... Due to being made of solid Ebony. I am so proud of my Steinways, and thankful to my Son.
My other Steinway at one time belonged tomy Dear Friend, the great Concert Pianist William Kapell, and upon his untimely tragic death in a commercial airliner crash returning from a stopover in Hawaii after his exhausting tour in Australia... The airliner plowed into a mountainside near Half Moon Bay just a few miles from the San Fransisco Airport....
I wound up with his piano, rather one of his pianos... He had three in his Studio [actually his brownstone home he shared with Mama and Papa Kapell] on east 94th Street... Two were Concert "D"s 8'11" the third and mine is a Concert "B" 6'11"... with very Stiff action. And of course this is my preferred piano BECAUSE of the very stiff action... translating to more powerful hands. Also, as it turns out translating to Dupuytrens syndrome, a thickening of the tendons in the hands, due to extensive practice through the years... Though general MDs will encourage you to have surgery, you will be incapacitated for a year, and will NEVER play again because of the scar tissue in the palms in those tendons. It is treated be a Chirohealer who uses the Graston Tecnic,thus releasing the tangled tendons, rendering my hands very free and excellent tecnic wise. Thank you Dr. David Simmons of Arcadia...
And as you see... my Kapell piano has a excellent companion and almost the same size! I thank Maurice so much for this treasure.
And YES YES YES I practice Piano tecnic every day.. sometimes playing well into the late night. I rotate things.... one day are the Brahms 51 exerscises as chosen for me by my Great Master in NY Robert Goldsand.... He chose perhaps 45 of those 51.... Then I do all scales in DOUBLE Thirds.... the Liszt fingerings.
You see Mr Goldsand Studied with Moritz Rosenthal, who was a favored pupil of Franz Liszt! I am proud of studying with Goldsand, as I have an almost direct lineage to Liszt's approach to tecnic! The next Day, I delve into the Lechetizsky Method, and afterward, several Chopin Etudes,sometimes changing their keys and jazz repertoire and changes. The Third Day will be classical repertoire and things my group will use in concert, plus a return to intense scales in double thirds, and sixths.
From time to time I take a bit of time away from my Steinways...
My whole life has been devoted to music. I am truly blessed to have found what I really loved early in life! Hugs, I hope YOU are so blessed, too, and IN the ARTS! KissKiss

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Added concert for April SUEZENNE FORDHAM CHAMBER JAZZ LA "New Orbit" Series

New April Concert ofr Suezenne Fordham Chamber Jazz LA "New Orbit" Series

Suezenne Fordham Chamber Jazz LA will present a new ly added concert Thursday, April 1609 at 7-9pm. The performance will be at the Donald Wright Auditorium at the Pasadena Library 285 Walnut in Pasadena.
Fordham is a Classical-Fusion-Jazz pianist and has Charlie Domingo on Contrabass, ans Rochelle Coatney playing Latin Percussion and Jazz Percussion.
The Music is a fusion of classical music, jazz, bop and the Avant garde. Very unique with a touch od Tibetan percussion instruments. and intensely personal.
Our muses are Bill Evans, Monk, messian, Bartok and is totally improvised with the highest gegree of virtuosity and musicality.
Ambience is historic, hip, arty and comfortable, and admission is complimentary

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