{"id":7413,"date":"2024-07-23T00:47:28","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T04:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emersonavenuesalons.com\/?page_id=7413"},"modified":"2024-08-20T00:29:47","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T04:29:47","slug":"7413-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/emersonavenuesalons.com\/?page_id=7413","title":{"rendered":"Salonline 2024-07-21 Michael DeLalla"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Sunday, July 21 2024<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

— a “hybrid” event —<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael DeLalla<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Classical and Steel String Guitars<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How I Built This<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Greetings from Boulder CO-based guitarist\/composer Michael DeLalla. Though I’ve been living in CO these last many years, I was a longtime resident and performing artist in the greater DMV area. I still return every July to teach a 2-week classical guitar workshop, and always try to book a tour or a few concerts around those two weeks. I\u2019m so pleased to be returning to Emerson Avenue Salons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I hope you can join me and the wonderful hosts of Emerson Avenue Salons, Bill and Jackie, for an evening of some of my favorite compositions\u2014and a peek behind the curtain. I call this program \u201cHow I Built This.\u201d A longer subtitle would be “Original Compositions and a Glimpse Into How They Came to Be.” Don\u2019t panic\u2014there\u2019s not a quiz at the end of the concert. But I\u2019ve crafted short introductions to each piece to offer some insight into my compositional process, sort of a roadmap through the terrain of a new piece. Who knows\u2014it may be just the inspiration you need to take a musical idea you\u2019ve had and craft it into something special.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BIOGRAPHY<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOne of the very best acoustic guitarists in the world\u2026.music of the most exquisite order.\u201d Matt Fink, All Music Guide<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over a long and storied career Michael DeLalla<\/strong> has been serving up a delicious brew of solo guitar compositions and arrangements of traditional tunes gathered worldwide, steeped with his classical training and seasoned with his jazz, Celtic and folk\/world stylings. His fluency on classical, 12-string, and steel-string acoustic guitar showcases gifted improvisation and dazzling technical facility that never sacrifices the richness and poignancy of his compositions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael\u2019s family-friendly, multi-cultural concert performance includes his wry, sometimes irreverent observations and stories of the experiences that are behind the pieces. An evening with Michael isn\u2019t just a collection of instrumental and vocal works but also an engaging narrative of his travels and travails found in his varied musical habitats, from a capella kan e diskan<\/em> in Breton Gaelic, to evocations of Japanese koto music and the North African o\u2019ud, to tweaking the nose of the classical music world with his raucous \u201cPiece for Steel Drum (If I Played Steel Drum)\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2026a sublime and uniquely crafted sonic landscape\u2026 DeLalla creates a sonic vibrancy on this CD that is rich, remarkable and revelatory.\u201d Minor 7th.com<\/a>, about his recording This Is How I Disappear<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m fond of saying \u201cI was Zooming before Zoom was cool\u201d\u2014I had been doing streaming concerts and private lessons since well before the pandemic. Here\u2019s a link to one I did here in CO: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GuitaristComposerMichaelDeLalla\/videos\/654239895449262<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And a few other videos that might interest you:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

JS Bach, Fugue from Violin Sonata 1, arr. for guitar by Michael DeLalla (note, this is actually more of a short film; jump up to 2:17 if you wish to ignore the intro): Bach Fugue in A Minor for Solo Guitar – YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I composed this theme-and-variations-in-reverse as a double homage to Benjamin Britten and Thelonious Monk. Nocturnal Scenes \u2018Round About Midnight \u2013 YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And a recent work, a jazz waltz dedicated to our cat: \u201cWaltz for Chat-colat\u201d: Waltz for Chat-colat (youtube.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If you’d like to receive Emerson Avenue Salon invitations, you can add yourself to the invitation list HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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