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RECENT & UPCOMING PERFORMANCES:
Kara performed at over 50 events in 2008, and more than 50 again in 2009.
 
Contact Kara through link below.
 
8:30 Contemplative Services at FPCH
Kara reqularly plays harp for this service many times each month.
5/3/09 - Prelude - Marchand
    and Simple Gifts - Brackett
5/17/09 - Sonata in A Minor - Domenico Cimarosa
5/31/09 - Minuette - Ignaz Pleyel
6/7/09 - Adagio in F minor - St. Georges
6/14/09 - My Father's Favorite - Doyle
7/12/09 - Variae Precis: Cing Versets - Tournemire
7/28/09 - Le Voix Humaine - G. Lasceux
9/13/09 - Sonata in C - T. Latour
9/27/09 - Cancion(s) - melodies by Lully arranged for the court of Spain
10/4/09 - two Persian melodies
10/18/09 - Kliene Studie - R. Schumann
Upcoming dates - Air Grave - Rameau, Sonata - Scarlatti, At Peace - Van Hest
 
 
10/23/09 - Foothills Pregnancy Resource Center
Kara will play (and sing) during the silent auction bidding hour and "last chance" bidding time of this Gala Fundraiser for Foothills Preganancy Resource Center.  It will be held in the baquet room of beautiful Capistrano's restarant in Arcadia. 
For more information & tickets, call 626-358-2122.
        Highlights of her sets will be Mvt. 1 from Mozart's Vienese Sonata No. 1, Cousineau's Rondo de Cardon, Latour's Sonata in C, Tournemire's Variae Preces, as well as a variety of world music, Japanese, Irish, and ancient Persian pieces.  She will also sing several selections including "Solitude" Pauline Garcia-Viadot's french street song with dramatic Spanish gypsy flavor.
 
10/11/09 - Special Event
Kara will sing "God So Loved The World" from Stainer's oratorio by special request.
 
10/4/09 - Private Luncheon
Kara will play Harp for a luncheon  (selections will include the pieces played on 9/24)
 
9/24/09 - Bethany Towers
Kara  will give a concert that compares and contrasts formal pieces with popular pieces from various musical time periods:
Early music:  O Bone Jesu - Palestrina, Adoramus Te Christi - Ignoto
Renaissance: O Bone Jesu - Grancini, White Flowers - Negri
Baroque: Awakening of the Lilies - Couperin, Le Voix Humaine - Lasceux
Classical:  Vienesse Sonata Mvt. 1 - Mozart, Minuette - Pleyel
Romantic:  Etude - Bochsa, Solitude - Viardot
Modern & Contemporary:  Satie, Briscusse and Van Hest
 
8/30/09 - FPCH 8:30 Contemplative & 9:30 Classic Services
Kara will sing Faure's beautiful "En Prier" accompanied by the marvelously talented organist and pianist U Jung Jung.
 
8/23/09 - FPCH 9:30 Classic Service
Kara will play (on harp) her arrangement of Tournemire's "Variae Preces: Cing Versets" (Varous Prayers: Five Verses).  This is an impressionistic piece, with each of the first four verses completely different, then the closing verse combines all the previous themes.
 
7/13/09 - Bethany Towers
Kara will play an hour of varied music for the residents of this Senior Living Facility, as part of their programmed acitivities.
 
7/12/09 - Demonstration
Kara played "Sonata in A minor" by Domenico Cimarosa and her own arrangement of "Simple Gifts"
 
6/19/09 - Liebshardt wedding
Kara will play a prelude program of  light & pretty mixture of international waltzes, jazz ballads, and more traditional wedding pieces.
 
6/14/09 - Garden Reception
Kara plays a mixture of light classics, hymns, and dance music from the Baroque period up to the current day.
 
5/11/09 - Memorial
Kara played background music during a luncheon reception after a Memorial service. A total of about two hours.
 
5/7/09 National Day of Prayer Service & Concert
Kara is coordinating the music for the Concert portion of this event with musicians and speakers of regional, national, and international acclaim!  Kara will play harp and accompany Dacie Yobp on an Irish folk aire on lap harp & playing recorder in a trio.
Other musicians will be:  Eric Alderfer - vocal, Susan Canjura - piano,
Rachel Cotten - violin, Stephanie Pashby - clarinet, Matthew Schmidt - piano,
Darcie Yopb, Steve Yerkes - recorder & Yoshiko Yerkes - piano
 
Memorial Service: McInnis - Feb. 17, 2009
Wylie Chapel
Kara will provide Prelude and Postlude on Recorder:
Sarabande en Rondo - Rameau  (alto recorder)
Simple Gifts - Traditional (tenor recorder)
Berceuse/Lullaby from Jocelyn - Godard (alto recorder)
 
All Church Praise & Prayer - Song Leader - Feb. 4, 2009
FPCH in The Mears Center 7PM
Julie Rushing will play piano, Gail Dalton (soprano) and Kara will singing for this event of directed prayer and songs.
 
 
















Les Anges Dans Nos Bois
(The Angels In Our Woods)
A Collection of Music by French Composers
 
Kara has begun work on her next album which she hopes to have produced this winter.  Music by French Composers from late 1400 - early 1900s.  Primarily music on harp, there will be a few duets with the recorder and she will sing  "Bois Epais"by Lully, "Solitude" by Pauline Garcia Viardot (the poetry of Spanish gypsy folk music combined with the earthiness of Parisian street song), and  the beautiful "Berceuse" (lullabye by Godard) made famous by Caruso.
 
Harp purists will enjoy Kara's mystical interpretation Couperin's "Awakening of the Lilies," Etudes by Bochsa and Myers, and Cousineau's grande "Rondo de Cardon".
 
  The title pieces are "Les Anges" by Satie and "Dans Nos Bois" by Lully, arranged by D'Anglebert.  Highlights will be Chabrier's pensive "Feuille D'Album," the varied impressionist mathematics of "Various Prayers: Five Verses" by Tournemire, the brooding "Adagio in F Minor" by St. Georges, and the hauntingly beautiful, simple and elegant, "Le Voix Humaine" by Lasceux. 
  
This CD will dovetail with her work as a Greif Support Group Facilitator, the music will track the journey from mourning toward joy: Sorrow, Ceremony, Spirit and Release.  For more informaion on Grief Recovery, or to find a Grief Support group in your area, see www.griefshare.org
 
















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Kara Dahl Russell
AHS, AEA, AFTRA, SAG
for Kara's acting resume &website,
 
PEAR SHAPED TONES is registered
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For Musical Bookings Call
323-324-0547
 
 

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