"Pops" (Classic Gypsy)

Classic Gypsy - Description:

	The barriers of our world are coming down. Cultures, which once knew nothing of each other's existence, now live side by side. Food, drink, clothing, language and music are all being transformed, influenced by the international community living on our doorstep. Pitas, croissants, shawarmas, expresso coffee, burritos, stir-fries, curries have all become part of our regular diet, symbolic of the shrinking of our borders and the opening of our minds. Our bodies move to the rhythm of salsa, reggae, merengue and tangos. Our hearts beat to the rhythms of the world.
	We crave the exotic. We have the ability to communicate instantaneously with new worlds and to travel to far away lands. We know that life can be different. While we lead our ordered lives we dream of the exotic, the spontaneous, the unpredetermined. It is human nature. We need it both ways, we want security, we want to be able to say that tomorrow will be just like today, yet at the same time we want adventure.
	The blending of folk and art music, the contrast between the improvisatory and the ordered, has fascinated all of the great musicians. Brahms played with a gypsy from Romany.The works of Bartok are based in folklore. Yehudi Menuhin dabbled in jazz with Stephan Grappelli.Itzak Perlman found release in Klezmer.
	With "CLASSIC GYPSY" Ioan Harea transforms the folk music of Europe and South America into a new genre of virtuoso violin playing, elevating music of the campfire and dance hall to the symphonic stage. Combined with well-loved classical favourites such as works by Paganini, Fritz Kreisler, Sarasate, Gershwin and Mozart (to name only a few) "CLASSIC GYPSY" is an entertaining, high-energy classical performance, which appeals to all audiences. Standing ovations are inevitable after a performance of "CLASSIC GYPSY".
	"CLASSIC GYPSY" is available in 2 formats: Violin and piano recital or violin soloist with orchestra.
	In "CLASSIC GYPSY" violinist Ioan Harea will guide you into a world of fantasy- a world of dancing skirts swirling around a campfire, a world of dark eyes staring intensely, drawing you into dreams of a nomadic life, free of responsibilities, full of passion and adventure. In the words of the immortal gypsy in Verdi's opera II Trovatore "the sky is our roof and our country, the world".
	Ioan Harea and "CLASSIC GYPSY" release the gypsy in your soul!

" It was a thrilling performance and without doubt one of our best choices. We highly recommend this wonderful performer"

Lucia Melnick, Lake of the Woods Concert Group - Kenora Ontario - October 2003

"Classic Gypsy" - With Orchestra:

When performing "CLASSIC GYPSY" with orchestra, Ioan Harea performs selections from his own arrangements, together with one work from the standard classical gypsy themed list for a performance of from 30 to 60 minutes of music.

Ioan Harea's exclusive arrangements of traditional Eastern European and South American "Gypsy" music include:

	Trad Romanian		The Lark
	Dinicu		Pony Express
	Trad Russian		Two Guitars
	Poliakin		Hot Canary
	Matto Rodriguez		La Cumparsita Tango
	Gardel		Por Una Cabeza Tango
	Bonfa		Manha de Carnaval
	Villoldo		El Choclo Tango
	Monti		Czardas
	Brahms		Hungarian Dances #1,5 6 and 7

Orchestration:

strings plus 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 1 trumpet, 2 percussion. For some works there are optional parts for guitar, accordion, harp and piano. All optional parts are covered by cues in the strings.

NOTE: There is a rental charge for the orchestra parts for Ioan Harea's arrangements.

Classical repertoire with a "gypsy" theme include:

	Ravel		Tzigane
	Saint-Saens		Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
	Sarasate		Ziguenerweissen
	Waxman		Carmen Fantasy

"There was nothing he could not do with a violin. Virtuosity, the full range of dynamics…A violin sounding like birds? He did it. He seemed one with his instrument, and coaxed every imaginable sound from it…the audience was ecstatic…"

Watertown Daily Times Orchestra of Northern New York September 2002