Park International Center for Music (Park ICM) announced today that their 2020 – 2021 Season would continue in March with two wonderful ways to experience classical music both free and freely available at Park ICM.
“Though the pandemic has continued to shutter our theaters,” said Park ICM Executive Director Lisa Hickok, “We have been committed to bringing the best in classical music to our audiences. Having partners such as the 1900 Building and our new friends at the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center in the Crossroads allows us to do just that.”
First on the exciting line-up is a new collaboration between Park ICM and the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center in the Crossroads. Called “Witness: A Retrospective, Featuring the art of Jason Pollen and the Music of Park International Center for Music,” the evening will feature students of Park ICM enveloped by the amazing visual art of internationally acclaimed artist, designer and educator, Jason Pollen.
An iconic visual artist since he arrived in Kansas City in 1983, Pollen moved to the Midwest to become a professor in the Fiber Department at the Kansas City Art Institute. “I have been drawing, painting, collaging, designing and stitching since I was a child,” said Pollen. “This retrospective is an overview of works created in this past half century. My art journey has been characterized by experimentation with process and materials, and the search for a compelling communicative visual language. I have often felt as if I were witnessing my hands create something from nothing. I then feel compelled to breathe as much life as possible into whatever shows up.”
Broadcast from the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Hickok hopes that this will be just the beginning. “When I first met with Jason to discuss the possibility of a collaboration, he mentioned that he was the product of a family of classically trained musicians and that he was ‘eager to have the music resonate’ with his works. We are so excited to bring that vision to fruition. Especially in times of such uncertainty, it is lovely to foster new relationships in the artistic community. We hope that putting together this amazing combination will appeal to classical music and visual art lovers alike and, hopefully, promote the desire of other artists and arts organizations to work with Park ICM in the near future.”
The concert will feature six Park ICM students including Orin Laursen, Ilya Shmukler, Ilkhom Muhiddnov, Igor Khukhua, Evangeliya Delizonas-Khukhua, and Anastasia Vorotnaya, plus Park Collaborative Pianist Lolita Lisovskaya-Sayevich.
EVENING PROGRAM
Camille Saint-Saëns : Havanaise
Orin Laursen, violin with Lolita Lisovskaya — Sayevich, piano
R. Wagner — F. Liszt : Overture to “Tannhäuser” S. 442
Ilya Shmukler, piano
Fritz Kreisler : Praeludium and Allegro
Ilkhom Mukhiddinov, violin with Lolita Lisovskaya-Sayevich, piano
Fritz Kreisler : Liebesfreud
P.I. Tchaikovsky : Melody
Nikolo Paganini : Caprice No: 18
Igor Khukhua, violin with Evangeliya Delizonas — Khukhua, piano
Sergei Rachmaninoff : Moments Musicaux Op 16, No. 3. Andante cantabile, B minor, No. 4. Presto, E minor
Sergei Taneyev : Prelude and Fugue Op.29
Anastasia Vorotnaya, piano
More information and broadcast link available at
ICM.PARK.EDU
