Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Award winning Classical Guitarist Peter Fletcher

January 19, 2010 - Orange Beach, AL - The Orange Beach Public Library and the Orange Beach Senior Activity Center are pleased to offer an evening concert featuring award winning Classical Guitarist Peter Fletcher on Thursday, February 4, 2010 at 6:00 p.m. Tickets are available for $6.00 at the Orange Beach Public Library.

This concert will feature selections from Fletcher’s 2008 CD release on Tower Hill Records: Music of the Baroque. Other repertoire will include Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring from Cantata No. 147 as well as the E minor Lute Suite of J. S. Bach; New Music by New York-based guitarist and composer David Leisner; Usher-Waltz, an unusual and intense piece by Russian guitarist and composer Nikita Koshkin; two works from Maurice Ravel’s exquisite Mother Goose Suite, and music of Weiss, Albeniz, Villa-Lobos and Reusner.

The program will culminate with Koyunbaba, by composer/guitarist Carlo Domeniconi. This is one of the most unique and exciting works in the classical guitar repertoire. This is the repertoire Fletcher will be performing at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall on March 27th, 2010.

For more information on this event, visit the Library website at www.orangebeachlibrary.org or call 251-981-2923.