La Catrina String Quartet members, from left, Daniel Vega-Albela, Jorge Martínez Rios, Jorge Espinoza and Roberta Arruda. The group plays on Sept. 21 with Willy Sucre as part of the Placitas Artists Series. (Courtesy of lacatrinaquartet.com)
By David Steinberg / For The Journal
PUBLISHED: Saturday, September 13, 2014 at 12:04 am
Jazz in Corrales and chamber music in Placitas open new seasons of two popular, long-running series.
Award-winning jazz pianist Dick Hyman gives a recital on Saturday, Sept. 20, at the Historic Old San Ysidro Church as part of the Music in Corrales series.
The concert doesn’t have a theme but it does have a title – “Variations on the Great American Songbook,” one which Hyman has often employed.
“It allows me to do just about anything,” he said in a phone interview from his home in Venice, Fla.
His Corrales recital includes Scott Joplin’s “Wall Street Rag,” Jelly Roll Morton’s “Shreveport Stomp,” James P. Johnson’s 1918 waltz “Eccentricity,” and compositions by George and Ira Gershwin, Hoagy Carmichael and by Hyman himself.
Two months ago, Hyman was a member of an ensemble that played in Santa Fe as part of the New Mexico Jazz Festival.
Hyman has served as composer/arranger/pianist for 12 Woody Allen films, has written music for a cantata based on Mark Twain’s autobiography and, for many years, was the artistic director of New York City’s 92nd Street Y Jazz in July series.
Hyman’s Sept. 20 performance is the first of eight concerts in the Music in Corrales’ 2014-15 season. The season has a mix of jazz, chamber music, Celtic music, roots music and folk music.
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