Yardbirds at The Key Club

As a complete coincidence the Yardbirds were in California doing a tour while I was in LA enroute to my activities at the Yosemite Flute Festival. The Yardbirds were playing 20 dates in the States from New York to Hawaii. I took my friends Linda Stella (Bill Evans my keyboard player's wife) and Makoto Tani a life long friend from Japan to see them at the Key Club in West Hollywood. Great show. I would have to say the band is sounding better than it ever has. Linda went to their next gig to do some photography.

Orchestra Rehearsal

Orchestra rehearsal for a concert at The Queen Elizabeth Theatre. RK is the opening act and also featured playing solo flute for the NY singer Michael Castaldo. The date chosen was an interesting one 9, 10,11. It was fun to play with some Classical musicians that RK went to University of Toronto, Faculty of Music.

Kitchener Waterloo Chamber Society

The following day Anne and Ron performed at the Kitchener Waterloo Chamber Society. The duo perfomed a very eclectic program contrasting major classical works with jazz, blues and world influenced pieces.  One such piece was Winter in Gros Cap written by Anne for bass flute and piano inspired by the beauty of the nature of Northern Ontario.
Other pieces included were:
Prokofiev Flute Sonata in D Major
Franz Liszt: Etude de Concert "un sospiro"
Wladislaw Szpilman: Suite "The Life of the Machines"
Winter at Gros Cap, composed by Anne Louise-Turgeon

Sergei Rachmaninoff: Two Etudes-Tableaux op.39 nos. 1
Rachmaninoff-Kreisler: Liebeslied
A Muse, Dark Eyes, Casco Viejo, La Sirena, Mozart's Wedding, Pasqualiti House, Canata by Ron Korb

Classical music at Q

Here Anne and RK are playing a concert at the Q Music Summertime Music Series in Toronto. They were the only artists to perform Classical music in the series and without any amplification. The beautiful Bechstein grand piano certainly made it a pleasure. The audience was mainly comprised of many local musicians and composers. Afterwards it became kind of an reaquaintence party for many.

Rehearsals with pianist Anne Louise Turgeon

Ron attended U of T with Anne Louise and her husband Ed Turgeon before the couple went to graduate school to get their masters and PhDs in music at Yale University.  Both Anne and her husband are professors of music Florida Atlantic University.  Here Ron and Anne are practicing the Prokofieff Sonata in D and some original pieces.