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Songs of the Dessert is a collection of personal musical reflections inspired by a magical place in California High Desert called Joshua Tree. Home to a unique plant of the same name, Joshua Tree has been awakening creative impulses in humans from the early days of Native Indians, who left their pictographs on the rocks, to the contemporary artists, architects, musicians and spiritual seekers.
Joshua Tree’s name was made world-famous by the U2 1987 album. But the area is also known as a place of a UFO landing and the location of the unique structure named the Integratron, the largest US Marine Base, and King of the Hammers, called the toughest truck race on Earth.
People who live in Joshua Tree refer to it as “our little piece of Paradise.” For the past few years, I have been lucky to partake in it. Watching its changing seasons... Listening to the sounds they bring... Walking through its the otherworldly landscapes... Reflecting on my life under the glow of the Milky Way...
This album is a tribute to this special place.
Join us as we share Natasha Marin's musical composition with a visual response by Chicana artist Marta Sánchez.
50 Lapsley Lane
General Admission: FREE
Pianist NATASHA MARIN enjoys working as a soloist, with orchestras, chamber ensembles, and piano duos. She was featured on the radio and TV, recorded, and has been performing extensively in the United States and internationally, appearing in venues such as St. Petersburg Philharmonic Hall in Russia and Carnegie Weill Recital Hall in New York among many others. Natasha performs as a pianist and a harpsichordist with instrumentalists and vocalists from the US and Europe, as well as with classical crossover and pop/rock singers and with actor/comedian Cheech Marin. Electronic music has always been one of Natasha’s favorite creative mediums. She pursued electroacoustic composition at the USC Thornton School of Music and is releasing her electronic music album “Songs of the Desert” in 2024. Natasha completed her studies for graduate degrees at the St. Petersburg State Conservatory in Russia and the University of California, Los Angeles. She earned her Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
Born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, Chicana painter Marta Sanchez has been inspired by traditional Mexican folkloric art expressions and contemporary issues. Her works on paper are mostly linocuts and monotypes, which follow the social and cultural traditions of Mexican and Chicano/an Art. Her work is in the collections of The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The State Museum of Pennsylvania, The McNay Art Museum, The Fine Art Museum of St. Petersburg, Florida, and The National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago, Museo del Barrio, NY, The Cheech Museum in Riverside and the Woodmere Art Museum. Marta earned an MFA in painting from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University, and a BFA in painting from the University of Texas at Austin. She teaches at St. Joseph University and works at the Brandywine Workshop and Archive. She is founder of the grassroots organization “Cascarones Por La Vida, ” which assists families affected by HIV/AIDS
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