FCC Spring Concert Series 2014
Sunday, March 30, 3:00 p.m.
Vario Voci, Songs of Spring: Vocal Music from the Renaissance to the Great American Songbook. Music of Guillaume Dufay, Camille Saint-Saëns, Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, Leonard Bernstein, Richard Rodgers, and others.
Charles W. Kamm, tenor; David Rentz, tenor; Ellen K. Rentz, mezzo-soprano; Kyungmi Kim, piano.
Running the gamut from a 13th-century ditty about the spring’s first crop of strawberries to favorites by Leonard Bernstein and Rodgers and Hart, this concert’s music offers a diverting and illuminating look at the way composers throughout the ages have celebrated the coming of spring.
Sunday, April 13, 3:00 p.m.
Devakant is a composer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist who has explored the sacred musical traditions of the world, including Gregorian chant, Indian Classical Music, music of Zen monasteries and Tibetan Temples, and shamanic traditions of Central America. From these roots he creates a unique blend of sound and silence taking the listener into a world of mystery within, a place of peace, harmony and well-being. It is ideal for meditation, healing and energy work, relaxation, as well as for the pure enjoyment of beautiful music.
Saturday, May 10, 4:00 PM
Music of Tailleferre and Bloch. Early-20th-century masterworks for violin and piano.
Rachel Huang, violin; Tatiana Thibodeaux, piano.
This concert features three remarkable pieces written by two composers over the span of four years: French composer Germaine Tailleferre’s Sonata No. 1 for violin and piano (1921); Ernest Bloch’s Baal Shem: Three Pictures of Chassidic Life (1923); and Bloch’s Poeme Mystique (1924).
Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the door.