Five guitar strings + five violin strings = one classical night
Darren Wren and Cvetozar Vutev rehearse for their upcoming Ten Strings Duo at Calvary Community Church on Thursday.
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Updated: September 08, 2009 11:19 AM
In 1917, American George Wesley Bellows sat down to create a work that would one day be considered a classic.
Dance in a Madhouse, a lithograph measuring 1.5 feet by about two feet, shows couples dancing, women sitting and someone with his head in his hands, a recollection of his own visit to a mental hospital.
It shows a multitude of emotions, and was inspired classical guitarist David Leisner to create several works that comprise his own Dances in the Madhouse, with its Tango Solitaire, Waltz for the Old Folks, Ballad for the Lonely and Samba!, each written to be played by violin and guitar.
That’s exactly how Cvetozar Vutev and Darren Wren will end Ten Strings Duo on Thursday night at Calvary Community Church, 1205 Rogers Way.
The two — Vutev the violinist and Wren the guitarist — perform frequently together.
For this event, they’re opening with Cantabile by Niccolo Pananini, following it with several short pieces by Jacques Hotteterre that, combined, area called Suite e-moll.
Vutev has four solos, the first two coming next when he performs Danza Espanola No. 5 by Enrique Granadas and Caprice No. 24 by Paganini.
The great Italian composer and violinist starts off the post-intermission segment, when the pair combine for Paganini’s Sonata Concertata.
Vutev solos on Campanas Del Alboa by Eduardo Sainz and Malka Toccata by Petar Hristoskov.
The Leisner works that wrap up the night have movements designed to depict some of the characters in the Bellows art, Wren said, starting out plaintively “and then it gets a little bizarre and, finally, ends with the samba.
“It’s a fun piece to play.”
Tickets are $20 for adults, $10 for children ages 10 and younger and will be available at the door.
The concert starts at 7:30 p.m.
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