Sunday February 24, 2008 2:30 pm Sunday March 2, 2008 2:30 pm Saturday March 15, 2008 7:30 pm -I will be playing principal flute in Donizetti's charming opera buffa, Don Pasquale. Please come and enjoy the beautiful music and delightful comedy !!!
Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
Luigi Lablache (1794-1858) -the original Don Pasquale Pini-Corsi, De Luca, Storchio and Sobinov, in the La Scala production of the 1904-05 season
Read about Donizetti, Don Pasquale, and LaBlache on Wikipedia:
Anthony Amato Artistic Director 319 Bowery New York, NY 10003 (212) 228-8200 Email: info@amato.org
Friday, February 15, 2008
My Grandfather Ahn Seok Young's 1941 film "Volunteer" on DVD!!! Ahn Seok Young (Seok Ju)
"Volunteer" (1941)
I literally CANNOT believe it, but my grandfather Ahn, Seok Young's film was discovered in China and was released on 4 disc DVD set by the Korean Film Archive, along with 3 other treasures, "Homeless Angels" (1941) by Choi, In-Kyu, "Spring of Korean Peninsula" (1941) by Lee Byeong-Il, and "Straits of Chosun" (1943) by Park, Ki-Chae.
These films were made during the last years of Japanese Occupation in Korea and they obviously contain Pro-Japanese sentiments and propaganda, but they are extremely important historical and artistic documents.
My grandfather's birth name was Ahn, Seok Ju, and Seok Young was his artistic name. He was a poet, script writer, illustrator, artist, musician and art/film critic, and in 1937 made his directorial debut with the motion picture "Story of Sim Chung", based on a famous Korean folk tale. He is the author of the famous Korean lyric poem "Our Hope", originally "Our Hope is Independence", later becoming "Our Hope is Unification" after the Korean War, 1950-53. His eldest son and my uncle, Ahn, Byong Won, composed music to this lyric and now along with "Arirang", it's one of very few songs sung by both North and South Koreas.
Artistic director of AVLA HARMONIÆ; Recipient of 2005 Samuel Baron Prize; Doctor of Musical Arts, SUNY Stony Brook University; Master of Music, Manhattan School of Music; Bachelor of Music, Mannes College; Flute studies with Carol Wincenc, Linda Chesis, Judith Mendenhall, Thomas Nyfenger; Baroque flute studies with Wilbert Hazelzet, Sandra Miller, Janet See, Stephen Schultz, Jed Wentz; Participated in the Amherst Early Music Festival, Longy International Baroque Institute, Vancouver Early Music Programme, Bunnik Traverso Workshop; Performances with Inégale, Rossignol Amoureux, Ensemble La Sylva, Newton Baroque, Flying Forms, La Donna Musicale, Catacoustic Consort, Bacchanalia Baroque, Empire Viols, Bach Vespers at Holy Trinity, Concert Royal, and The Grand Tour Orchestra; Harpsichord studies with Louis Bagger, composition with Giampaolo Bracali, conducting with David Gilbert; Conducting debut at the New York’s Amato Opera in its final 2009 season with Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro.
Winner of Artists International Competition (New York Debut, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall), Downeast Orchestra Competition, LaGuardia Orchestra Competition, Westchester Symphony Competition, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Young Winners Series, Ira Gershwin, Louis Hammershlag, and Lewis Silver Awards; Principal flute with Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra, Manhattan Symphony, Downeast Chamber Orchestra, Mannes Symphony, Korean Chamber Sinfonia, Korean Symphony of New York, Orchestra Musicanti of Seoul, and the Amato Opera Orchestra.
Official researcher at the Patrimonio Nacional Archivo y Biblioteca de Palacio Real de Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional de España, Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid, Biblioteca Histórica Municipal de Madrid, Biblioteca Musical Municipal de Madrid, Real Biblioteca del Monasterio San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Royal Library (Koninklijke Bibliotheek) at the Hague, Spencer Collection Research Libraries [NYPL], Research Library of Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts, and the New York Hispanic Society Library.
