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(05/21/13 11:07pm)
Cold beers at Casey Moore’s in Tempe marked the last time Shannon Conley saw Zach Booher, who in the summer of 2012 had a fresh degree from ASU and plans to follow the Vans Warped Tour to promote his band While We’re Up.
(04/15/13 10:26pm)
Musicians chart their education through the pieces they play, developing a repertoire filled with the classics from Bach to Beethoven. Music composition junior Garrett Miller began his career on a piano bench when he was 8 years old, but he found himself drawn not to what he could play, but what he heard.
(03/22/13 11:20pm)
(Photo Courtesy of Azy Scotten)
The famous red varnish and robust sound of Antonio Stradivari's most legendary instrument is coming to Arizona for the first time, and violin performance freshman Emilio Vazquez will get to be part of the debut.
International soloist Elizabeth Pitcairn, who began playing when she was 3 years old, has owned the Red Violin since its record-breaking Christie's of London auction in 1990. Pitcairn attended the auction with her family when she was 16, and then continued her studies afterward until she began performing with her violin at venues around the world.
As concertmaster of the ProMusica Arizona Chorale and Orchestra, Vazquez leads the 50-member community ensemble's violin section in developing bowings, fingerings, technique and tone.
"It was really cool collaborating with a professional musician at this level," Vazquez said. "It's been fun getting people up to the level we needed in order to bring (Pitcairn) in."
Vazquez is an Arizona native who started playing in his school's orchestra and taking private lessons in fifth grade. The Herberger school's Jonathan Swartz was a main factor in his decision to attend ASU rather than an out-of-state school.
"I've developed my career so far here, and being known in Arizona gives me a heads up on being able to get opportunities," he said. Artistic Director Adam Stich heard Vazquez play for the first time when he was conducting a Scottsdale Musical Theater Company production of Fiddler on the Roof. He was impressed with Vazquez's talent, and asked him to join the orchestra as concertmaster.
The nonprofit community orchestra has members who pay dues to participate, but also provides young students like Vazquez with stipends to elevate the sound.
"It's one of the biggest challenges of my role as artistic director, is finding players like Emilio who are highly talented and then also bring other musicians up to their level," Stich said. "He's very good at teaching how to play certain passages or get a certain sound of of the instrument, which is a big part of the concertmaster role."
Stich wanted to celebrate ProMusica's tenth season with a concert at a special venue, and chose the Orpheum Theater to showcase "A Night With Stradivarius."
Stradivari made the Red Violin in 1720, but it disappeared shortly after and wasn't found for 200 years. The violin finally surfaced in 1930, owned by relatives of composer Felix Mendelssohn, and would change hands just once before coming to Pitcairn. It took almost two decades for another Stradivarius, called The Hammer, to break the million-dollar auction record that the Red Violin set in 1990.
The 200-year blank period in the instrument's history prompted speculation that would inspire an Academy Award-winning film by director Francois Girard in the late '90s. It would also inspire composer John Corigliano to write The Red Violin Suite, which Pitcairn will perform Saturday along with pieces by Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky.
Vazquez said The Red Violin Suite incorporates new, contemporary techniques that require an open mind.
"It's not your typical Mozart or Beethoven symphony," he said.
Tickets for the 7:30 p.m. performance start at $30 through Ticketmaster. Student tickets are $10 at the box office with school ID.
Reach the reporter at ymgonzal@asu.edu.
(02/26/13 10:58pm)
The release of Stellacutta’s CD in late January and the concert on March 31 at the Cresecent Ballroom in downtown Phoenix mark roughly a decade of music-making for a band that started at Tempe’s New School for the Arts and Academics.
(02/06/13 11:30pm)
Ph.D. student Joshua Hillmann has been singing longer than he has been playing the piano, an edge his professor at ASU said would set him apart in the future.
(01/30/13 9:51pm)
From bare bones harsh tones to synth-tastic ’80s nostalgia, indie-pop duo Tegan and Sara Quin released their seventh album Tuesday.
(01/26/13 3:29am)
ASU will host the first-ever intercollegiate video conference that connects students at several universities with the professionals behind Juno, bringing a little Hollywood to Tempe this Saturday.
(01/19/13 1:00am)
(01/13/13 10:13pm)
With his face painted in black and white stripes and his long hair decorated with feathers, Johnny Depp crushes a crow perched on his head in ASU alumnus Tom Greyeyes’s limited edition Map(ing) 2013 print.
(12/10/12 11:17pm)
College without student media never crossed my mind. There’s something special and unique about a group of students taking ownership of a product and coming to work each night to create journalism.
(12/10/12 1:27am)
(10/10/12 12:02am)
Even Jimmy Eat World opening for Bill Clinton on the Tempe campus won’t draw Metric fans from the band’s show at Tempe’s Marquee Theater. The band, led by the wispy-rock voice of Emily Haines, is on tour performing its fifth studio album “Synthetica.”
(07/16/12 12:11am)
Theories and debates abound as to which state has the worst drivers. I say Arizona.
(06/28/12 8:09pm)
Students may pay more in the future for University health insurance programs as a consequence of the Affordable Care Act, said W.P. Carey School of Business Professor Marjorie Baldwin.
(06/25/12 5:33pm)
After two years of legal and political argument over Senate Bill 1070, Monday morning's Supreme Court ruling struck down parts of the law, while upholding a key provision
(06/13/12 3:31am)
Applause broke out during a meeting of Tempe Democrats Tuesday as the group paused to hear that Ron Barber was ahead in the Tucson area congressional district special election to replace former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who resigned earlier this year to recover from a 2011 shooting.
(04/20/12 12:14am)
Gazing into the depths of the Salt River, one inevitably tries to guess what exactly is in that murky, churning, sometimes gooey, “water.”
(01/20/12 2:59am)
ASU restored services to its website Thursday night and ASURITE users were able to begin resetting their passwords.
(01/19/12 7:10am)
All students, faculty and alumni were locked out of their ASU online accounts Wednesday evening after the University shut down its Web services because of a privacy breach.
(08/01/11 2:30am)
Inspiring protests, artwork and candlelit vigils at the state’s capitol, Arizona’s controversial immigration law, Senate Bill 1070, is still a top issue since parts of the bill went into effect July 29 of last year.