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“ONE MAN SHOW” One cello. No borders

Upper west side

Sat, February 21, at 7:30 PM, EST

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Wheelchair access: Wheelchair Accessible
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A live concert in a living room, backyard, or another intimate space. They're casual and friendly, hosted by community members.

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Sandro S. (he/him)

“ONE MAN SHOW” One cello. No borders.

A Solo Cello Experience by Sandro Sidamonidze
Presented by Cello Beyond Borders

Multi award-winning cellist Sandro Sidamonidze. Opus Klassik Nominee and German Recording Critics’ Award Nominee, presents ONE MAN SHOW, a continuous solo cello program conceived as a single uninterrupted musical journey rather than a traditional recital.

The evening opens with Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber’s Passacaglia in G minor (“The Guardian Angel”) one of the earliest and most visionary works written for an unaccompanied string instrument. Built over an unchanging bass pattern, the music unfolds like a solitary prayer,meditative, and timeless, forming the ritual threshold of the evening.

From there, the program traces a path through the architectural clarity of Johann Sebastian Bach, into the intensely human, dance-driven language of Gaspar Cassadó, and finally toward the chant-like sound world of contemporary Armenian composer Adam Khudoyan.

The program unfolds as a unified arc, from first sound and light, through structure and body, into memory and return, carried by a single voice.

Presented in the resonant acoustic of Blessed Sacrament cathedral, ONE MAN SHOW invites listeners into a space of reflection, stillness, and deep listening.

What's the music?

Sandro Sidamonidze (he/him)

Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber

Passacaglia in G minor (“The Guardian Angel”)

Biber’s Passacaglia stands among the earliest and most visionary works written for an unaccompanied string instrument.
Built over an unchanging bass line, the music unfolds like a solitary prayer, austere, meditative, and timeless.
In Sidamonidze’s version for cello, it becomes the ritual threshold of the evening: the first voice entering silence.

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Johann Sebastian Bach

Suite No. 3 in C major — Sarabande

This Sarabande offers a moment of suspended time.
Its luminous harmonies and noble pacing create a sense of architectural stillness, a breathing space between worlds.
Here, Bach appears not as virtuoso display, but as structure, balance, and light.

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Gaspar Cassadó

Suite for Solo Cello

Cassadó’s complete suite forms the physical and emotional heart of the program.
Drawing on Spanish dance rhythms and modern harmonic color, the music is intensely human, full of movement, pulse, and raw expressive force.
It brings the body fully into the narrative: breath, blood, and flame.

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Johann Sebastian Bach

Suite No. 2 in D minor — Sarabande

This Sarabande turns inward once again.
Its restrained simplicity carries a sense of fragility and memory, a quiet afterimage following Cassadó’s fire. The music feels like ash settling after flame.

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Adam Khudoyan

Sonata for Solo Cello

Khudoyan’s sonata closes the journey.
Rooted in Armenian chant traditions and modern minimalist textures, the work speaks in long, breathing lines and meditative repetition. It feels less like a conclusion than a return, a voice reconnecting with earth and silence.

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ONE MAN SHOW is not a display of solo repertoire, but a continuous inner journey,
a crossing of centuries and cultures carried by one instrument and one voice.

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