Oct. 8
Brahms, Schumann
on group’s playlist
A quartet of musicians will perform at Academy Village at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday. Three Tucson Symphony Orchestra artists — Theodore Buchholz, cellist; Melissa Hamilton, violist; and Anna Gendler, violinist — will be joined by Gendler’s husband, classical pianist Alexander Tentser.
The program will include Sonata Opus 78 by Johannes Brahms, Märchenerzählungen Opus 132 by Robert Schumann and Gabriel Faure’s Piano Quartet in C minor Opus 15.
Buchholz, a favorite at Academy Village recitals, performs in more than 70 concerts a year He studied at the Manhattan School of Music and San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He is a core member of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra. As an educator he is president-elect of the American String Teachers Association of Arizona and is on the faculty of Pima Community College.
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Hamilton is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music. She taught viola at Western Washington University and was violist for the university’s Pacific String Quartet. She now plays with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, Tucson Chamber Artists, Daystar Chamber Players and Esperanza Chamber Ensemble
Gendler, a graduate of the Moscow Conservatory in Russia, joined the Tucson Symphony Orchestra in 1991. She performs with the Tucson Symphony String Quartet and Flute and String Trio. She is a founding member of Day Star Chamber Players and she appears with her husband in duo performances. She is a teaching artist for Opening Minds through the Arts and is on the faculty at Pima Community College
Tentser, born in Kiev, Ukraine, studied at the Gnesin Music College in Moscow and the Russian Academy of Music. Since arriving in America in 1990, he has performed with New York Philharmonic violinist Anna Rabinova and the Tucson Symphony Orchestra. He received a doctorate from the University of Arizona and now teaches at Pima Community College and is conductor for its orchestra. He is also on the faculty at Cochise College.
Priscilla Moore
Oct. 9
Growing ‘middle class’
in China focus of lecture
Despite its image in the mass media as “the world’s factory floor,” China now has the world’s largest shopping malls, and a new “middle class” has become a critical component of the once classless society.
Barely recognized in the West, this relatively new emphasis on domestic consumption characterizes how a Chinese middle class has replaced the proletarian in the commune as the ideal citizen in the People’s Republic of China.
University of Arizona professor Hai Ren, an associate professor of East Asian studies and anthropology, will discuss this transformation, which combines capitalist and socialist characteristics, in a 3:30 p.m. lecture Wednesday at the Arizona Senior Academy.
Ren will share his research on China’s conversion from a socialist country into a neoliberal state since the late 1970s. While the term “neoliberalism” has been used in many ways over the past half century, Ren said he uses it to define “a philosophy of governance that displaces political sovereignty with economic sovereignty in contemporary globalization.”
Ren received his BA in history and archaeology from Sichuan University in Chengdu, China, and a Ph.D. in sociocultural anthropology from the University of Washington in Seattle. He has written two books on the social and economic changes going on in China.
Mike Maharry
