Concert recital brings "Old Friends" together
ANDREA WAITROVICH, Staff Writer
Issue date: 1/29/08 Section: Entertainment
Long-time comrades and co-musicians David Cahueque and Janet Noll performed their ninth annual recital, "Old Friends," Saturday.
"Old Friends" symbolizes their 23 years of friendship and the important role music plays in their lives.
"Because of our history together, there is a sense we can tell where each other is going," said Cahueque. "We share a lot of the same philosophies of music. We seem in-sync when we play together."
Their music symbolized the common thread that reconnected them as "Old Friends."
Cahueque and Noll soloed their musical talents by reviving renditions from previous college recitals and concerts they had played in together.
Cahueque, a music lecturer and guitarist, has been playing classical guitar for 23 years and showcased his ability to appease the crowd with his strums.
"Professor Cahueque's 'Castles of Spain' was soothing and relaxing. It was a visual story," said Abdallah Baltaji, a first-year finance, real estate and law student. "I listened and it felt like you were there to see the different phrases of the day, morning to evening."
Noll, a music director, vocal and instrumental coach, has been playing piano for 49 years and exhibited her extreme skill on the instrument.
"Janet's performance of 'Ballade in F minor' was crazy. How it started from mellow then jumped to crazy then mellow again. I liked watching what she was doing," said Gamaliel Jimenez, a second-year computer information systems student.
At the end of the show, they performed a duet, "Insieme, op. 72," by John W. Duarte, which is one of the few pieces originally written for a guitar and piano combination.
"I really liked the duet. The two instruments complimented each other so well. It worked perfectly," said Jazmin Mora, a fourth-year architecture student. "You can hear both the instruments."
The instrumental mix of guitar and piano is not a typical combination due to adversities in balancing volume differences. The piano amplifies notes, while the guitar emphasizes softer melodies.
In past recitals, the two musicians strayed from collaborating the instruments' diversity. Cahueque would augment the guitar's power to equalize the effect of the piano or Noll would substitute the piano with a keyboard.
They also alleviated diverting each instrument's differing sounds as a whole by playing at separate time intervals.
The concert is a fundraiser for the Cahueque-Noll Scholarship, which is awarded in June. Cahueque and Noll handpick a student they believe has achieved musical excellence by playing any instrument.
"This concert helps with the scholarship, but it is not just about raising the money. This world is filled with musicians who would love to have a stage to perform on," said Noll. "We love performing and this an outlet for us. It is highly unlikely for someone to take this stage from us."
"Old Friends" symbolizes their 23 years of friendship and the important role music plays in their lives.
"Because of our history together, there is a sense we can tell where each other is going," said Cahueque. "We share a lot of the same philosophies of music. We seem in-sync when we play together."
Their music symbolized the common thread that reconnected them as "Old Friends."
Cahueque and Noll soloed their musical talents by reviving renditions from previous college recitals and concerts they had played in together.
Cahueque, a music lecturer and guitarist, has been playing classical guitar for 23 years and showcased his ability to appease the crowd with his strums.
"Professor Cahueque's 'Castles of Spain' was soothing and relaxing. It was a visual story," said Abdallah Baltaji, a first-year finance, real estate and law student. "I listened and it felt like you were there to see the different phrases of the day, morning to evening."
Noll, a music director, vocal and instrumental coach, has been playing piano for 49 years and exhibited her extreme skill on the instrument.
"Janet's performance of 'Ballade in F minor' was crazy. How it started from mellow then jumped to crazy then mellow again. I liked watching what she was doing," said Gamaliel Jimenez, a second-year computer information systems student.
At the end of the show, they performed a duet, "Insieme, op. 72," by John W. Duarte, which is one of the few pieces originally written for a guitar and piano combination.
"I really liked the duet. The two instruments complimented each other so well. It worked perfectly," said Jazmin Mora, a fourth-year architecture student. "You can hear both the instruments."
The instrumental mix of guitar and piano is not a typical combination due to adversities in balancing volume differences. The piano amplifies notes, while the guitar emphasizes softer melodies.
In past recitals, the two musicians strayed from collaborating the instruments' diversity. Cahueque would augment the guitar's power to equalize the effect of the piano or Noll would substitute the piano with a keyboard.
They also alleviated diverting each instrument's differing sounds as a whole by playing at separate time intervals.
The concert is a fundraiser for the Cahueque-Noll Scholarship, which is awarded in June. Cahueque and Noll handpick a student they believe has achieved musical excellence by playing any instrument.
"This concert helps with the scholarship, but it is not just about raising the money. This world is filled with musicians who would love to have a stage to perform on," said Noll. "We love performing and this an outlet for us. It is highly unlikely for someone to take this stage from us."
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