Laredo Community College will host a Faculty Recital featuring guitar instructor Cain Budds on Tuesday, March 15, at 7:30 p.m. at the Guadalupe and Lilia Martinez Fine Arts Center auditorium.
The concert is sponsored by the LCC Music and Dance Department, in association with the City of Laredo. Admission is free and open to students and the public.
A three-year faculty member of the LCC Music and Dance Department, Budds will present a unique array of music for the guitar. He will be accompanied by LCC music instructor Dr. Mikolaj Gorecki on piano, and by adjunct instructor Melissa Hinojosa on flute.
Among the selections that Budds will perform are the Five Preludes for Guitar by Heitor Villa-Lobos, recognized as the founding father of national Brazilian music.
Budds said that the Five Preludes for guitar were written in 1940 and were dedicated to the composer’s wife. He added that the preludes all have subtitles that only appear in the original manuscript, not in the printed score. Budds noted that some of the preludes were composed as special tributes, including Prelude No. 1, a “Tribute to the Brazilian Farmer;” Prelude No. 3, a “Tribute to Johann Sebastian Bach;” Prelude No. 4, a “Tribute to Brazilian Indians;” and Prelude No. 5, which purportedly represents Rio de Janeiro social life.
Budds will also play a transcription by Johann Sebastian Bach, entitled Suite No. 4 for Lute, BWV 1006a. The Lute Suite No. 4 is Bach’s own transcription of Partita III for violin.
“The music of Johann Sebastian Bach is continuously being transcribed to instruments other those for which it was originally intended,” explained Budds.
Other selections include Anton Diabelli’s Sonate for Piano Forte and Guitar, Op. 71, and Astor Piazzolla’s Histoire du tango.
Budds said that Diabelli was an Austrian music publisher, editor and composer. Best known in his time as a publisher, he is most familiar today as the composer of the waltz on which Ludwig van Beethoven wrote his set of 33 Diabelli Variations.
Piazzolla—an Argentine pianist and player of the bandoneon, related to the accordion—set his mind to establishing the tango as an unusually flexible art form, said Budds.
He added that Piazzolla’s Histoire du tango for flute and guitar is clear evidence of the composer’s interest in the development of the tango in the 20th century.
For more information about the LCC Faculty Recital, contact the Music and Dance Department by calling 721-5330.
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