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Arts Chorale of Winchester will perform some of the music from their trip to Salzburg, Austria this June. It will feature Mozart’s Coronation Mass in C Major k. 317 with full orchestra and soloists. Other works include John Rutter’s “For the Beauty of the Earth”; Brahms Requiem, “How Lovely is Thy dwelling-place”; Mack Wilberg’s “Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing” and many more.
Admission fee
Tickets:
$20 Adult
$18 Senior/Student
Online, at the door or from a choir member
Jazz and Poetry come together in an improvisational spoken word and musical performance. For 90 minutes, musicians will perform a mixture of jazz and R&B while local poets bring prepared and improvised slam poetry as an instrument and an interlude.
Poets include: Joseph M. Jablonkski (Walking Mall Poet and With Ink: Typewriter poets), Wayne David Hubbard (author of Mobius: Meditation on Home and Throes of a Broken Clockwork Universe) and many more.
MC: Irina Price
Doors open: 7pm
Show Starts: 7:30pm
This collaborative performance will happen in-the-round at the Drum Orpheum Rehearsal Hall, owned and operated by jazz drummer, Daniel Kelly II.
Refreshments will be available for purchase.
Admission Fee: $15
Event contact information or website: www.drumorpheum.com
GreenSpring Foundation is pleased to present Claire Jones, former Royal Harpist to HRH King Charles and the Shenandoah Conservatory Harp Ensemble in concert for the US launch of their history-making album recorded in Abbey Road Studios, London. The concert will feature well-known tunes from the worlds of film, classical, Broadway, and traditional folk music. The concert is free. In lieu of tickets, a free-will offering will be collected to support GreenSpring’s community outreach music education programs.
The concert will occur on Thursday, April 4, 2024, at 7:00 pm at Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church, 26 W. Boscawen St. A- 201, Winchester, VA 22601.
Claire Jones, the UK’s #1 Classical Recording Harpist, rose to international prominence when she performed for the wedding of Prince William and Princess Catherine in 2011 for a worldwide audience of 3.7 billion viewers. Jones and her longtime collaborator, Shenandoah University Adjunct Associate Professor of Harp Lynnelle Ediger and renowned harp ensemble director, are proud to announce the release of their harp ensemble album “2K+ Fusion.” This international collaboration showcases the combined talents of their harp ensembles: the American Youth Harp Ensemble, the Shenandoah Conservatory Harp Ensemble, and the Claire Jones Harp Ensemble. In what was a groundbreaking moment in the musical world, the album was recorded at the iconic Abbey Road Studios in London, which is known for hosting some of the most legendary musical artists in history. Shenandoah Conservatory harpists were among the 35 young harpists who participated in the once-in-a-lifetime recording experience in early 2022.
For photos, interview opportunities, or additional information, please email Lynnelle Ediger at lediger@su.edu or call 804-484-2187.
Performing Arts Live
Trailblazing Women of Country: From Patsy to Loretta to Dolly
Featuring Miko Marks & Kristina Train
Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn and Dolly Parton revolutionized country music and blazed a trail for future generations of female artists. With their chart-topping hits, record-breaking sales and designations in the Country Music Hall of Fame, their singular voices defied restrictive social norms, proving that women can be at once beautiful and strong, vulnerable and powerful. In an entertaining and inspiring tribute to these trailblazing women, singer/songwriter Miko Marks (named CMT’s 2022 “Next Woman of Country”) and Nashville-based singer Kristina Train lead a five-piece all-star female band in an evening of music that harnesses country’s rich storytelling traditions and the shared legacy of musical excellence and unapologetic authenticity of these unforgettable legends of American music.
Friday, April 26 at 7:30PM
Saturday, April 27 at 7:30PM
Sunday, April 28 at 2:30PM
Main Stage Opera with Symphony Orchestra
Music by Dmitri Shostakovich
Arranged by Gerard McBurney
Libretto by Vladimir Mass and Mikhail Chervinsky
Main Stage Opera provides audiences with the full opera experience! This year’s production follows a group of friends in the post-Stalin era living in Cheryomuskhi, a district in Moscow full of cheap subsidized housing. During the wake of political and societal change, the friends are re-housed in the city’s new high density apartments, and their lives rapidly unravel — relationships are challenged and corruption seeps in at the seams. A satirical musical comedy in three acts, the operetta features lively choruses, polkas and jazz-influenced turns performed expertly by our very own
Symphony Orchestra.
Sung in English with subtitles
Directed by Ella Marchment
Music direction by Emanuele Andrizzi
English translation by David Poutney
New Music
The Little Big Band premieres compositions and arrangements by students, faculty and friends of the group.
Shenandoah New Music
Eclectic City
Join the EDGE Ensemble for a collaboration with guest composer-curator Tom Nazziola, as he leads an evening of works created from diverse perspectives. Featuring works by Nazziola and others, this is EDGE with a new attitude and an alternate angle.
Time & Space
Featuring Quinn Mason, composer
The Wind Ensemble presents composer Quinn Mason’s Symphony No. 4 (“Strange Time”), a large-scale work depicting a journey into a space time continuum, which challenges the very idea of the perception of time and reality in a musical setting. Additional performance highlights include a concerto featuring Shenandoah Conservatory’s Assistant Professor of Percussion Karlyn Viña and more.
The Studio Big Band celebrates the legacy of the Duke Ellington Orchestra and Billy Strayhorn, a musical collaboration resulting in hundreds of compositions rooted deep in the Great American Songbook.
Ay sí,
it’s my turn
to oh say
what I see,
I’m going to sing America!
– Julia Alvarez
Then, besides
They’ll see how beautiful I am…
I, too, am America
– Langston Hughes
Inspired by the poetry of Langston Hughes and Julia Alvarez, Sphinx Virtuosi presents a program showcasing the beauty and tradition of excellence inherent in classical music created and performed by generations of Black and Latinx composers. Their rich program, which features many new works for the ensemble, seeks to uplift spirits through sharing the sounds that inspire them — transcending the boundaries of time, history and struggle. As the flagship performing entity of the Sphinx Organization, the eighteen-piece ensemble embodies the nonprofit organization’s social justice mission and dedication to transforming lives through the power of diversity in the arts and elevating our collective humanity.
Quenton Xavier Blache: Habari Gani
Javier Farías: Abran Paso
Andrea Casarrubios: Herencia
Adolphus Hailstork: Selections from Sonata da Chiesa
Xavier Foley: Concertante for Two Double Bass Soloists with String Orchestra
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson: Sinfonietta No. 2 (“Generations”)