Peter Fletcher, Classical Guitarist
An Afternoon Concert
Saturday, October 26 @ 2 p.m.
Olympic Room, Main Library
The Tacoma Public Library welcomes back classical guitarist Peter
Fletcher for a free Saturday afternoon concert! This concert is
part of a nationwide tour, under the auspices of Phillip Truckenbrod
Concert Artists, to promote his new Edvard Grieg CD, to be released
this Fall by Centaur Records.
Fletcher will perform selections from his new CD, an all-Grieg album
in which he himself wrote the guitar transcriptions. CDs will be
available at the concert
Major works will include Bach's Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, and
Suite Compostelana by the Catalan composer Federico Mompou, to
celebrate the 115th anniversary of the composer's birth. Fletcher
recorded a highly acclaimed CD of Mompou's music on Centaur Records
(CRC 2588, 2002)
Fletcher will also perform music from Michael Praetorius's
Terpsichore; Courante from the Third Cello Suite by Bach; the
ever popular Recuerdos de la Alhambra by Francisco Tárrega_ _and
a Passacagli by Girolamo Frescobaldi. Fletcher will perform
Diary of a Camino by American composer Jeremy Gill. Fletcher
performed the world premiere of this work last April at Weill
Recital Hall of Carnegie Hall.
The final work on the program will be Fletcher's transcription of
Paganini's dazzling Caprice no. 24.
More information: www.tacomapubliclibrary.org or telephone
253.292.2001
David Domkoski
Community Relations Manager
253.292.2001 ext. 1220
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