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Fri November 17, 2017

Regina Carter Quintet, Presented by San Francisco Performances

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Violinist Regina Carter and her ensemble present an evening-long instrumental tribute to music made famous by the great lady of American song and swing, Ella Fitzgerald called "Simply Ella". Carter's own arrangements of iconic works performed by Ella will range from love ballads to bebop.

Carter combines dazzling technical proficiency and profound compositional and improvisational gifts with a fresh, aggressive approach to her instrument and a multicultural perspective-and she challenges our preconceptions regarding the violin. "People are only used to hearing violin in European classical music or country music," says the Detroit-born violinist, "and so we get stuck in this idea that this is what a violin is supposed to do."

In Carter's hands, the violin reveals both its melodic side and its potential for percussive expression. Perhaps more significantly, Regina Carter demonstrates the violinist's eagerness to explore musical combinations and contexts both familiar and unexpected.

The ease with which Carter is able to switch musical idioms derives from a lifetime spent immersed in music. She began playing the piano at the age of two, then switched to violin at four. Carter considers the Suzuki method of instruction-which emphasizes learning by doing, to play by ear rather than by sight-to be a significant factor in her subsequent ability to improvise since, as she says, "it freed us up from the paper-from reading a lot."
Violinist Regina Carter and her ensemble present an evening-long instrumental tribute to music made famous by the great lady of American song and swing, Ella Fitzgerald called "Simply Ella". Carter's own arrangements of iconic works performed by Ella will range from love ballads to bebop.

Carter combines dazzling technical proficiency and profound compositional and improvisational gifts with a fresh, aggressive approach to her instrument and a multicultural perspective-and she challenges our preconceptions regarding the violin. "People are only used to hearing violin in European classical music or country music," says the Detroit-born violinist, "and so we get stuck in this idea that this is what a violin is supposed to do."

In Carter's hands, the violin reveals both its melodic side and its potential for percussive expression. Perhaps more significantly, Regina Carter demonstrates the violinist's eagerness to explore musical combinations and contexts both familiar and unexpected.

The ease with which Carter is able to switch musical idioms derives from a lifetime spent immersed in music. She began playing the piano at the age of two, then switched to violin at four. Carter considers the Suzuki method of instruction-which emphasizes learning by doing, to play by ear rather than by sight-to be a significant factor in her subsequent ability to improvise since, as she says, "it freed us up from the paper-from reading a lot."
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Herbst Theatre 9 Upcoming Events
401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94102

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