Temporary Home Page for Andy Pesich
Short Autobiography (of sorts):
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Back in the 1970s I taught music in junior college, thereby getting published and also getting some respect. In 1979 I got laid-off, which ended much of that (1979 was a funny year). Anyway, I'm being published again by Dorn Publications of Massachusetts (Go to Dorn Saxophone Quartet page).
My Christmas Song from 2007.
"Azul" from the October 21, 2011 Cerritos College Concert.
A Johnny Cash-style love song dedicated to the blue-haired ladies who prop up Classical Music.
Blast from the past: This is very old punk song from the band Galleon (Andy Pesich, Richard Robles, and Bob Stevenson).
This is a novelty song about "What if the situation got so bad, professors had to beg in the streets" from 2009
So, if you want to hear the performance by the CSULA Saxophone Quartet (Jeff Benedict, director), click here for mp3. If you want to see a PDF of the first page of the score (remember that parts are included in the $15 price), click here.
Here's a May 12, 2006 performance of Bach's G Minor Fugue arranged by A. Pesich for marimba, clarinet, bass clarinet, and bass: click here for wma.
Other Projects:
- More saxophone quartet stuff including an arrangement of St. Louis Blues (MIDI file example).
Addenda:
Yup, I'm the same grass-roots guy that started and worked the Salazar Project on this campus. At this point, months later, I believe there is some residual info on it in the University Reports Archive. The Bill Bell (commercial syndicate) article is no longer available but a scan of it can be downloaded from here.
Très L.A. is back! We performed at the CSULA Staff Awards (June 12, 2007) and also this year (June 11, 2008). We performed on October 6, 2007 at the Billy Jean King Awards fundraiser at the Pasadena Ritz-Carlton. And, we performed on October 17 for the ORSP Awards/Cocktail Party. Click here to view Stan Carstensen's photographs of us at the the BJK event. The last photographs are by Bernie Kane. The ORSP 2007 are Ellen Stein's snapshots. Ellen also sent us an electronic copy of the ORSP Oct. 2007 Omnibus which includes us. Click here. And, Check this out. Très L.A. with four extra players also performed as "pep band" on February 8 and 9, 2008 homecoming basketball games. On October 23, 2008 we performed at the famous Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles (excellent gig) but we've had good gigs since. The last campus gig was May 19, 2011 for the Honor's College Inaugural Dinner.
Here is my congratuations to Ara Guzelimian, with whom I spent two years in the UCLA Madrigal Singers, on his hiring as Dean of the Julliard School of Music. And, congratuations to Jamie Horner, with whom I competed in David Raksin's film scoring class also at UCLA, on his academy award for "Titanic". And, congratuations to Steve Bartek, with whom I seem to be in all sorts of music classes at UCLA, on his work in Oingo Boingo and other projects. And, congratulations to Larry Balmagia, who lived down the hall from me at Hedrick Hall in 1971, on his work as a writer on TV shows such as "Mash". What ever happened to Alan Ashby?
For non-University business, I can be contacted via pesicha@yahoo.com.