Salon 21 Minimal Music PATIO PARTY!
When: Wednesday Jun 24, 2009 at 7.30 pm, Meet and Greet from 7 pm
Where: Bata Shoe Museum, 327 Bloor Street West
Tags: Salon 21
Soundstreams presents Salon 21...
...in order to create a "Salon" for the 21st century, a fresh and atmospheric meeting place for Toronto.
Space is limited, please register here.
In the last Salon 21 of our Season we will explore Minimal music with Russell Hartenberger and will celebrate the end of our season with you.
Russell Hartenberger is Professor of Percussion at the University of Toronto. He is a member of Nexus and has been a member of Steve Reich and Musicians since 1971.
Russell began his percussion studies in Oklahoma City with Alan Abel. After Mr. Abel left Oklahoma City to join the Philadelphia Orchestra, Russell studied with Tom Gauger and K. Dean Walker. He received his B.Mus degree from Curtis Institute where he studied with Fred D. Hinger. Upon graduation from Curtis, he joined the U. S. Air Force Band and toured throughout the U.S., Europe and South America as xylophone soloist. While in the Air Force Band, Russell received his M. Mus degree from Catholic University where he again studied with Alan Abel.
Russell holds a PhD in World Music from Wesleyan University where he studied mrdangam with Ramnad Raghavan of South India, tabla with Sharda Sahai of North India, Javanese Gamelan with Prawotosaputro and West African Drumming with Abraham Adzinyah.
He has been a member of the Oklahoma City Symphony, Philadelphia Lyric Opera Co., percussionist at the Marlboro Music Festival, Principal Percussion of the New Haven Symphony, timpanist with the Canadian Opera Company and performs often with the Toronto Symphony.
He has performed with the Paul Winter Consort, Ensemble Modern of Germany, John Wyre's World Drums, Woodstock Beat, and New Music Concerts of Toronto. He also has worked and/or recorded with such diverse musicians as Gil Evans, Jimmy Garrison, John Cage, John Adams, Steve Gadd, Peter Erskine, Glen Velez, Iannis Xenakis, Pablo Casals, Canadian Brass, Kronos String Quartet, Peter Serkin, Trichy Sankaran, Richard Stoltzman and Yo-Yo Ma.
With Steve Reich and Musicians he has recorded for ECM, DGG and Nonesuch Records. He performed on the Grammy Award winning recording of Music for 18 Musicians. With the Reich Ensemble, Russell has toured throughout the world and performed with the New York Philharmonic, Israel Philharmonic, Cologne Radio Orchestra, London Symphony and Brooklyn Philharmonic. The conductors he has played under include Zubin Mehta, Michael Tilson Thomas, Kent Nagano, Peter Eotvos, Paul Hillyer, Brad Lubman and George Manahan.
As a member of Nexus Russell has performed with leading orchestras in North America, Europe and Asia. He performed on the Academy Award winning Full Length Documentary, The Man Who Skied Down Everest. His awards include the Toronto Arts Award in 1989, Banff Centre for the Arts National Award in 1997 and, along with the other members of Nexus, was inducted into the Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame in 1999.
Russell lives in Toronto with his wife, artist Bonnie Sheckter and their two daughters, Laura and Carla.
Minimalist Music is an originally American genre of experimental music named in the 1960s based mostly in consonant harmony, steady pulse (if not immobile drones), stasis and slow transformation, and often reiteration of musical phrases or smaller units such as figures, motifs, and cells. Starting in the early 1960s as a scruffy underground scene in San Francisco alternative spaces and New York lofts, minimalism spread to become the most popular experimental music style of the late 20th century. The movement originally involved dozens of composers, although only four-Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, and, less visibly if more seminally, La Monte Young-emerged to become publicly associated with it in America.
Salon (definition)
A salon is a gathering of curious individuals, to amuse, to please and educate through conversation and readings.
Discover new music - make new friends - share ideas - exchange information - relax - unwind - enjoy musical surprises
Terrific Toes Tickets - a pair of tickets for an upcoming Soundstreams concert will be awarded at each Salon 21 to the most sensational pair of shoes!
As part of Salon 21 you will also get to see the Bata Shoe collection.
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