Long Thea1re - Sunday 4 P.M. - February~9t 1978

FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC in cooperation with SAN JOAQUIN DELTA COLLEGE and UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC present NleANOR ZABALETA - Harp

PROGRAM Pavana con su Glosa (for Harp) •.•...... •A. de Cabezon (1510- 1560) Suite in GMajor, No. 14 (Extracts) ...... G. F. Handel All emande (1685-1759 ) Allegro Menuet Gigue Sonata in B Flat Major ...... •...... G. B. Viotti All egro Bri 11 ante (1755-1790) Adagio Allegretto Vivo Pastoral Variations on an Old Christmas Carol ...... •...... M. Samuel-Rousseau (1882- 1955) INTERMISSION Basque Sonata (1946) F. Madina Dedicated to Nicanor Zabaleta (1912-1972) Allegro Menuet Toccata Two Impressionists Une Chatelaine en sa Tour Op ..110 ....•...•...G. Faure (1845-1924 ) Vers la Source dans le Bois .•....•..•..... M. Tournier (1879-1951) Sonata ....•.....••...... ••M. Alben;z (18th Century) Malaguena ....••..•...•...... •••• I. Alben;z (1860-1909) Danza de la Pastora E. HaHfter (1905- )

M.riecli Anders Artists M.n••ement Inc. 535 EI C.mlno Del M.r • S.n Fr.ncilCo, C.liforni. FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC Founded by Walter H. Perl in 1956 Mrs. William H. Williams, President PATRONS Bank of Stockton Dr. &Mrs. Malcolm Moule Dr. &Mrs. Richard Boubelik Ms. Evelyn Perl Mrs. Eleanor Frank Dr. &Mrs. David Stadtner Mrs. Bardsley Jordan Union Safe Deposit Bank Mr. &Mrs. John Lewallen B. C. Wallace &Son Mrs. Richard A. Lundblad The C. A. Webster Foundation Mr. &Mrs. J. F. Marek Bill F. Williams Mr. &Mrs. William H. Williams DONORS Mr. &Mrs. Louis A. Bernardicou Mr. &Mrs. Donald T. McLaughlin Mr. Robert Calcagno Mrs. George Sanderson Dr. &Mrs. Isam Felahy Mr. Robert Schaeneman Dr. &Mrs. Clifford Hand Mr. &Mrs. Fred Stone Dr. James W. Katberg, Jr. Dr. &Mrs. Lucas Underwood Mr. &Mrs. lia Khan Dr. &Mrs. Ernest Weys Mr. &Mrs. Robert H. McCrary SPONSORS Dr. &Mrs. A. C. Armanini Mr. &Mrs. Edward B. Lyon Mrs. Warren Atherton Mr. &Mrs. John L. McCarthy Mrs. Norma Bazett Dr. &Mrs. Bill P. 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Troke Ms. Marian Jacobs Ms. Helen Tsutsui Mrs. Dorothy Jacobs Dr. &Mrs. Sidney Turoff Ms. Kristen Jones Mrs. Johann Uherek Mr. John G, Jutt 01. Warren van Bronkhorst Donna Rae King Mr. John R. Watt Mrs. H. M. Korbholz Mrs. Else Weinberg Mr. & Mrs. Karl Kothe Ruby B. White Mr. &Mrs. Gerald Kreger Helena M. Wilcox Mrs. Lola Lazar Helen Williams Town &Country Mr. Ira C. Lehn Mr. &Mrs. John Williams Mr. &Mrs. Matthew Lewis Dr. Benjamin Winick Mr. Frank Lindner Mr. &Mrs. Kyung-Soo Won Mr. &Mrs. Gerald Lowen Kim Mee Wonq Dr. &Mrs. Ernest M. Makino Mr. &Mrs. Anthony Wruck Mrs. Edith Malan Mrs. Bessie Wycoff Dr. &Mrs. Marvin Malone Mrs. Rodney A. Wycoff Mrs. Alice Martin Barbara J. Zettel NICANOR ZABALETA The world-famous harpist, Nicanor Zabaleta, was born in San Sebastian, . He began his musical studies at the age of seven and gave his first public concert in his native city at nine. Later, his musical education was developed in , where he studied harp with Marcel Tournier and counterpoint and fugue with Eugene Cools and Marcel-Samuel Rousseau. It was during the first years of his career there that he won from the praise, "In Zabaleta the artist is as great or even greater than the harpist." After his successes in , Zabaleta took his harp and his career to Latin America, to the and to the Orient. A measure of his success and demand is the fact that he has already given about 4000 concerts around the world. He has played as soloist with more than 200 symphony orchestras, among them the Berlin Philharmonic, Budapest Philharmonic, Israel Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, NHK of Tokyo, Philadelphia Orchestra, London New Phil­ harmonia Orchestra, the National Orchestra, Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra, Warsaw Philharmonic, etc. He has also been in demand for important music festivals, among them: Berlin, Casals, P. R., Edinburgh, Granada, Stresa, Venice, Lucerne, and Osaka. Since music for the harp was scarce when the artist began his career, he searched through libraries in Europe, turning up some surprising finds: harp music by Bach's sons; Beethoven, Handel; Viotti; early Spanish, Portuguese and Italian composers, etc. Many modern composers have written works especially for Zabaleta: J. M. Damase; P. Glanville-Hicks; A. Hovhaness; E. Krenek; D. Milhaud; W. Piston; J. Rodrigo; G. Tailleferre; V. Thomson; Villa-Lobos; Josef Tal, etc. Discussing harp music, Zabaleta has pointed out that "people think of the harp only as an accompanying instrument." On the contrary, Zabaleta says, it is an "i nstrument with tremendous means of response that allows a tremendous range of nuances. It has, too, a much larger repertoire than we think. You must take into account that it is one of the oldest instruments. In 1546 the first music for harp was published. There have been thousands of pieces written since, so the problem is to select enough good music to make a career." Mr. Zabaleta plays on a special harp, built to his own specifications. Every harp has seven pedals with which to make the chromaticisms--Zabaleta's has eight, the additional one to stop the vibrations of the lower wire strings. He records for Deutsche Grammophon and Angel. In 1959 he was awarded in Paris the Grand Prix National du Disque, and in .1971 the Grand Prix Edison in Holland. Zabaleta's artistry has been appreciated by audiences of many countries. In fact, it is no exaggeration to say that he has played his way in our hemi­ sphere from Patagonia to Alaska. He concertizes extensively in all the musi­ cal centers of the Old World and Orient. News of such activity usually el kits the question, "How do you manage the transportation problem?" Zaba 1eta cla ims he has transported hi s harp on every­ thing but a mule. He takes it without a case and prefers to go by air; but boats, trains, taxi cabs and gondolas offer no problems. He says: "One must not worry •.. "