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.
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).
