" A Musical Feast"

10/30/2024

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By Elmer Ploetz You could call it a love story.  Charles Haupt loved music. He loved it so much, in fact, that when he retired from the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, […]

10/30/2024

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10/05/2024

Charles having a ZEN moment in Lilydale

09/28/2024

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Saxophone and Jazz royalty descend on the Montante Cultural Center at Canisius University on Saturday, November 2, 2024 at 7:30pm when, A Musical Feast will present, “The Two Sides of Sax”,
Long associated with jazz and folk music, the saxophone has a history of great versatility and range that reaches beyond these genres. The first half of the program presents a collection of pieces from the “classical” side of the saxophone repertoire. From the 1700s, a piece called “Duo Sonata” TWV 40:102 by Telemann and Max Bruchs’, “Romanza” from the early 1800s will bookend the presentation of a trio of pieces by Dutch composers of the 2020s. Capping the first half will be a surprise new discovery from the SUNY Fredonia Sigurd Rascher Archive entitled “Satyrs’ Dance” from 1936.
The performers for these pieces are themselves royalty. Sander Beumer and Hans van Ham are Dutch musicians who make up Duo Beumer van Ham. Saxophonist Sander Beumer and pianist Hans van Ham represent the Utrecht Conservatoire and specialize in French saxophone repertoire. Wildy Zumwalt, Professor of Music at SUNY Fredonia who is a scholar of early German saxophone repertoire and his colleague at Fredonia, Elliot Scozzaro, a former award winner with the Eastman Youth Orchestra in Rochester will round out the first half. Elliot Scozzaro is himself an acclaimed arranger and composer who will be one of the featured players in the second half.
On the “Jazz” side of the saxophone repertoire, the second half of the program will feature free-wheeling improvisation, with Elliot Scozzaro, joined by Buffalo native and Schirmer prize winner from Eastman School of Music, Stephen Parisi on bass. In addition to numerous awards, in 2022, Elliot's noteworthy composition work led to the prestigious award of a Statewide Community Regrant by Arts Services Inc. and the New York State Council on the Arts for the premiere of his project “Sounds of Buffalo: A Series of Compositions and Arrangements for Tentet.”
Rounding out this impressive group of talented musicians is world-renowned jazz pianist, George Caldwell. Hailing from Clarksdale, Mississippi, George is a graduate of Oberlin Conservatory and has played with such jazz luminaries as Clifford Jordan and the Duke Ellington Orchestra. George was featured along with David “Panama” Francis at the legendary Rainbow Room in Manhattan before playing with the Count Basie Orchestra where he shared the bandstand with some of the true greats of the jazz world including Quincy Jones, Roy Hargrove, George Benson, Dizzy Gillespie and Cab Calloway. Elliot Scozzaro and Wildy Zumwalt present a new composition " Dialogues for two Alto Saxophones" by Rob Deemer, Professor of composition at the State University of N.Y. at Fredonia. His work as advocate for composers from underrepresented demographic groups led him to create the Institute for Composer Diversity .Deemer is professor and Head of Composition as well as the Chair of the Department of Theater and Dance.

09/28/2024

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Words and Music (1961)Radio play by Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) with music by Morton Feldman (1926-1987) WORDS ("Joe") Vincent O'NeillMUSIC ("Bob") the musica...

09/23/2024

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09/02/2024

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I also love to acknowledge my sister Brigitte Christine Heusch, her beautiful daughter Francesca Heusch my son in law Jaime Nichols and his wonderful family. Thank you to all my friends for all their support. All my love to our daughter Vanessa Haupt Nichols
Thank you Dale Anderson —News Staff Reporter for a wonderful tribute
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June 4, 1939 – Aug. 18, 2024

08/25/2024

Thank you so very much for your outburst of love and condolences regarding the loss of my brave, courageous husband Charles who has been fighting MS, grueling dialysis for over 4 years with many other painful health issues. Our daughter Vanessa Haupt Nichols, her husband James , my sister Brigitte Christine Heusch and her daughter Francesca would like to thank everyone for your wonderful support. We tried to celebrate every day for the gift of life. And the healing will take a very long time. Charles was looking forward to the 9/7event at the Montante Center bringing so many of his friends together. I am sure he will be there in spirit.
A Memorial service is being planned for a later date when musicians/ friends are available

08/19/2024

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After over 4 grueling painful years on dialyses and MS, my courageous husbands body gave up. He was a heroic fighter.

View Charles Victor Haupt's obituary, contribute to their memorial, see their funeral service details, and more.

08/14/2024

IN LOVING MEMORY OF CHARLES HAUPT

September 7 @ 4 PM Canisius Montante Cultural Center 2001 Main Street " FOLLOW YOUR BLISS shared sounds"
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07/16/2024

IN LOVING MEMORY OF CHARLES HAUPT

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07/16/2024

FOLLOW YOUR BLISS—Shared SOUNDS
September 7 @ 4 PM Montante Cultural Center

PROGRAM:
1st.suite for solo cello
1. Canto primo
2. Fuga (1964) Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Jonathan Golove, cello

Introduction by Anthony Chase, Buffalo Theater critic:

Ann C. Colley, SUNY Distinguished Professor, Emerita

Down to the Seas Again

When I, Ann C. Colley, was living in Cambridge as a Visiting Scholar from September, 2019 to March, 2020, I periodically left behind my reading in the Cambridge University Library and took the train to various seaside towns along the East Anglia Coast. Weather permitting during the autumn and winter, I packed up my rucksack and spent weekends walking by the sea. Alone along a deserted seaside, I would walk one way along the sands one day and in the opposite direction the other.

This presentation portrays parts of these solitary walks. The video presents these experiences through a narrative (spoken by me) and through images taken by me. Accompanying the video are passages from Benjamin Britten’s orchestral “Sea Interludes” that were composed to be performed between acts of his opera Peter Grimes (1945). Britten’s music is an appropriate accompaniment, for Britten grew up along the East Anglia Coast (in Lowestoft). He lived close to and frequently listened to the music of the North Sea

Changing Light (2019) Kaija Saariaho (1952-2023)
Tiffany DuMochelle,soprano Jonathan Golove, cello

Rondeau brilliant, D 895 (1826) Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Andante
Allegro
Charles Castleman, violin Claudia Hoca, piano

Intermission

“Gay Guerilla (1979) Jullius Eastman (1940-1990)
Stephen Solook, Vibraphone

“Composed for four identical instruments and premiered on pianos in January 1980 along with Crazy Ni**er and Evil Ni**er, which constitute his “Ni**er” series. My arrangement is for solo vibraphone with loop pedal. “Now the reason I use Gay Guerrilla — G U E R R I L L A, that one — is because these names — let me put a little subsystem here — these names: either I glorify them or they glorify me. And in the case of guerrilla: that glorifies gay — that is to say, there aren’t many gay guerrillas. I don’t feel that ‘gaydom’ has — does have — that strength, so therefore, I use that word in the hopes that they will. You see, I feel that — at this point, I don’t feel that gay guerrillas can really match with ‘Afghani’ guerrillas or ‘PLO’ guerrillas, but let us hope in the future that they might, you see. That’s why I use that word guerrilla: it means a guerrilla is someone who is, in any case, sacrificing his life for a point of view. And, you know, if there is a cause — and if it is a great cause — those who belong to that cause will sacrifice their blood, because, without blood, there is no cause. So, therefore, that is the reason that I use gay guerrilla, in hopes that I might be one, if called upon to be one.” - Julius Eastman This piece falls under Julius’s “organic music”. which is “a sort of large-scale additive process of accumulation of harmonic materials that proliferates and grows organically across considerable time spans”, Luciano Chessa. Starting on a single note, and as this piece grows and travels through different sections, we find ourselves in a forest or cloud of notes, but towards the end of the piece and climax we arrive at the Lutheran chorale, “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God” by Martin Luther. The text in the chorale can be interpreted as a call for strength and pride, which brings us to the end the same as the piece began, on a single note. I like to interpret this as the strength a single person has throughout their life, and the strength Julius tried to maintain throughout his life.
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12/31/2023

https://youtu.be/DFXcoGPq5jw A great evening

Nov 17, 2023The Joy of Music and SongMontante Cultural CenterCanisius UniversityA Musical Feast ProductionMade possible by: Arts Services, Inc.

12/18/2023

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Concert Series initiated by Charles Haupt, featuring a changing thematic focus, which includes chamber music and solo performances.