Upcoming Performances

There are only five more weeks of class until final exams.

I am preparing for three performances:

1. March 30 at 7 pm, the St. John’s Chamber Choir presents Music from the English Choral Tradition accompanied by organ at St. John's Catholic Church, 207 York St., Bangor, Maine
featuring:
S. S. Wesley's Ascribe Unto the Lord (1851)
Herbert Howells' Gloucester Service (1946)
and works of Tallis and Rheinberger
Kevin Birch - Director & Organist
Kay Eames - Assisting Conductor
Invite your friends!
Free admission - donations appreciated and will support fuel assistance needs in the community.

2. April 1 at 7:30 pm, the Chamber Jazz Ensemble, under the direction of Dr. Karel Lidral, presents a concert of jazz standards in Minsky Auditorium at the University of Maine.  Admission is $9 or free with a university student ID.

3. April 13 at 3 pm, the Oratorio Society will perform Carl Orff’s Carmena Burana with the Bangor Symphony at the Collins Center for the Arts on the campus of the University of Maine.  Admission fees are the usual Bangor Symphony prices.

http://www.bangorsymphony.org/articles/57-173/carmina-burana/6

I am on the board of the St. John’s Organ Society, and we will be presenting our annual winter international concert on Friday, April 4, at 7:30 pm.  Hatsumi Muira from Yokohama, Japan will perform on the historic E. and G.G. Hook organ, Opus 288 at St. John’s Catholic Church, 207 York Street, Bangor.  Admission is free, and donations are appreciated to further the outreach and education mission of the St. John’s Organ Society.  Miura is the resident organist at Yokohama Minato Mirai Symphonic Hall.  She teaches organ at Ferris University and serves as organist at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, both in Yokohama.  Miura enjoys an international reputation as a concert artist, and is highly sought after in her native Japan and in the United States.  She will perform music of Bach, Brahms, Reger, and Arauxo.  The program will include a newly-premiered work by Japanese composer Hina Sakamoto entitled “All Glory, Laud, and Honor” (hymn tune St. Theodulph).