Blair Guest Artist Recital: Tony Arnold And Movses Pogossian

Friday, November 6, 2009Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall8:00 p.m.GUEST ARTIST RECITALTony Arnold, sopranoMovses Pogossian, violinClarity, depth, imagination, and vocal beauty mark the performances of soprano Tony Arnold, who is internationally recognized for her interpretation of the contemporary repertoire. In 2001 she became the first vocalist ever to win the prestigious Gaudeamus International Interpreters Competition, and later that year took top honors at the McMahon International Music Competition. Since those triumphs she has been widely sought as both a concert and recording artist. For her Blair recital, she and violin accompanist Movses Pogossian will perform Gyorgy Kurtag's 1987 "Kafka Fragments," a bracing distillation of ten "normal" songs taken largely from Franz Kafka's "Blue Octavo Notebooks," concentrated into an intense series of emotional epigrams, composed by a giant of contemporary music.Mr. Pogossian is Professor of Violin at UCLA, and is Artistic Director of the new Dilijan Chamber Music Series at Zipper Hall in Los Angeles.

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