Classical Guitarist Peter Fletcher at Neill Public Library, 10/24

Date: October 16, 2013

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Contact name/phone/e-mail:  Sarah Morrison / 509-338-3251 / smorrison@neill-lib.org

Event/Date:  Classical Guitarist Peter Fletcher at Neill Public Library, 10/24

NPL’s October Concert series wraps up next week on October 24th with a performance by Peter Fletcher in the Hecht Meeting Room beginning at 5:30pm.   

This concert is part of a nationwide tour to promote Fletcher's new Edvard Grieg CD, to be  released this Fall by Centaur Records.  Fletcher will perform selections from his new CD, an all-Grieg album in which he himself wrote the guitar transcriptions.  Copies of the CD will be available at the concert.

Major works on the concert program will include Bach’s Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring, and the  Suite Compostelana by the Catalan composer Federico Mompou,  to celebrate the 115th anniversary of the composer’s birth.   Fletcher recorded a highly acclaimed CD of Mompou’s music on Centaur Records (CRC 2588, 2002).

Also on the program is Diary of a Camino by the American composer Jeremy Gill.  He performed the world premiere of this work last  April   at Weill Recital Hall of Carnegie Hall.  The final work on the program will be Fletcher’s transcription of Paganini’s dazzling Caprice no. 24.