IT HAPPENED AT LANDON GALLERY
Not
a bad place for a violin maker. Monsieur Landon resides at Broadway
directly opposite to Lincoln Center. So all the New York Philharmonic
Strings, the Juilliard teachers and students take a very short way
to try out and buy a new instrument or get it repaired. In the Landon
Gallery they have a very fine Kawai grandpiano, and Juan José
Chuquisengo spontaneously took the opportunity to give a recital
for his friends, most of them being musicians. Juan JosÈ played
pieces by Villa-Lobos and Chopin, Ginastera's Argentinian Dances
and Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. Three of the inspired
listeners finally joined in a really spontaneous medley, among
them
the Peruvian composer Carlos Bernadis, hair-raising Polish born
jazz piano virtuoso Adam Makowicz and the German classically trained
jazz violinist Gregor Huebner, now a naturalized New Yorker. The
whole event culminated in a quite surrealistic climax when Gregor
took the challenge to contribute his own violent ornamentions to
Juan José's interpretation of Ginastera's wild 'Danza del
Gaucho matrero' ó fun guaranteed. Some bottles of wine got empty
after this hazardous demonstration of free will skill.