Renowned Guitarist Opens
Centenary Stage Concert Season

David Burgess (closer view)

'... lush', 'evocative' and 'brimming
    with emotion'
 
'...David Burgess' ability to attain the
    first rank of guitarists cannot
    be doubted.'
       The Seattle Classical Guitar Society'

'An artist with a magnificent
    technique.'
        Andres Segovia

With a style that has been described as "incendiary and exciting," renowned classical guitarist David Burgess will open the Centenary Stage Company professional Concert Season on Saturday, October 4th at 8 PM at the Centenary Stage Company.

Praised by musicians and critics worldwide for his polished technique and flamboyant style, David Burgess is recognized as one of today's outstanding guitarists. Recently returned from a seven city European concert tour, his international appearances have taken him to concert halls throughout North and South America, Europe and the Far East. A student of the great Spanish maestro, Andres Segovia, his performances have been acclaimed as "hauntingly beautiful, tastefully phrased with exquisite nuance and yet with an aristocratic understatement that held his audience spellbound" (Greenwich Time).

Burgess had performed at New York City at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Recital Hall and the Town Hall and recorded for CBS Masterworks, MusicalHeritage Society, Tritone and Athena Records. Over the past 10 years, he has taken numerous trips to Brazil, rediscovering guitar music from Brazil’s past, as well as finding many progressive contemporary Brazilian works.

The evening’s program will include music by some of the finest Brazilian composers of all time: Ernesto Nazareth (1863-1934), who transformed the tango into a fascinating style of Brazilian ragtime; João Pernambuco (1883-1947), who never completed elementary school, could not read or write, but composed some of the best loved Brazilian music from the 1920’s and 30’s; Pixinguinha (1898-1973), the legendary band leader who performed throughout Brazil for more than 50 years; and of course, Luiz Bonfá (b.1922) and Antonio Carlos Jobim (1927-1994), the two best known composers of Bossa Nova.

Lackland Performing Arts Center

Lackland Performing Arts Center scheduled for    completion in 2009

The Centenary Stage Company will find a new home with construction the Lackland Performing Arts Center (Carol and David Lackland Center), scheduled for completion in Fall, 09. With a 22,000-square-foot performance space, the facility is destined to become the most sophisticated performing arts venues in northwest New Jersey. The center will include a 500-seat theatre, a black box theater, a dance studio, scene shop, a costume shop, green room and dressing rooms. In addition to housing the theatre, the 68K square foot Lackland Center will be a home for a variety of cultural activity, and will include WNTI, the College’s listener-supported public radio station, CCTV, Centenary’s Comcast-licensed television studio, and gallery space for visual artists. Named in honor of Carol Burgess Lackland, A Centenary graduate (Class of 1954), and her husband, David A. Lackland, a Centenary College Trustee, The David and Carol Lackland Center, has been designed to enrich student life and bring new cultural opportunities to northwest New Jersey.     ...more

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