Discovering the Music of César Franck

Poets, writers, lovers of lit and the arts: would you like to deepen your understanding of music, that most ineffable of artistic mediums? Would you like to get closer to the music as it's conceived by the composer—the syntax, the structure, the musical rhythms and rhymes, the metrical patterns and the manipulation of ideas to make meaning? Would you like to know how the performers shape the sound as they play, breathing life into unspoken, ever-present vowels and consonants that are the stuff and substance of the musical phrase?

If so, then please join us for Discovering the Music of César Franck, a 90-minute exploration of the composer's beloved Violin Sonata, performed by two internationally-known musicians: virtuoso violinist Cármelo de los Santos, concertmaster of the New Mexico Philharmonic, and faculty member at UNM, and the brilliant Macedonian pianist and composer Natasha Stojanovska.

The program is presented by Opus OP Arts and Education Projects, a small nonprofit that was born of the pandemic.

Your host for the program is the Executive and Artistic Director of Opus OP, conductor and arts educator Oliver Prezant. Oliver has helped thousands of music-lovers deepen their appreciation and understanding of music and the arts through his talks for the Santa Fe Opera, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, and the New Mexico Museum of Art, and he will be your guide for this interactive exploration of Franck's fabulously French, passionately romantic violin sonata.

During the program we'll stop time—we'll share impressions with one another and the musicians, and we'll take the time to feel and explore the musical shapes and the meaning of the melody and harmony. We'll revel in the rhythms and celebrate the structure of the music as we work towards a full performance of the first two movements of the sonata.

You know what it's like to delve deeply into a poem or a novel—why not plumb the depths of a work of musical art? The possibility of a transformative listening experience awaits...

Discovering the Music of César Franck
Sunday, March 29, 6—7:30 p.m.
Muñoz Waxman Gallery at the CCA in Santa Fe
1050 Old Pecos Trail

General admission: $25. Students with ID: $10.

Doors open at 5:30. For best seating purchase tickets online in advance and arrive early.

For tickets and information, visit:
www.oliverprezant.com/upcoming-events

And while you're on the website, sign up for the Opus OP Mailing List. We present unique programs that explore music, poetry, and visual art, like ***Discovering the Music of Poetry, ***where improvising musicians turn your impressions of the work of prizewinning local poets into sonic images of a selected poem; ***Discovering the Music of Paintings ***(a similar process), as well as programs that go deeper with music, opera, art songs, the history of musical instruments, and how directors stage operas, with titles like: Schumann and Romanticism, For the Love of Art Songs, The Operatic Trumpet, and In the Director's Workshop: Bizet's Carmen.

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To learn more and to make a tax-deductible donation to Opus OP Arts and Education Projects, a fiscally sponsored project of the New Mexico Community Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, visit:
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Thanks to all of our generous donors for sponsoring this event! This program is a presentation of Opus OP Arts and Education Projects. Program and artists subject to change.