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Mother Lode Friends of Music Calendar of Concerts and Events, 2014-2015
Please find below the Calendar of Concerts and Events of the Mother Lode Friends of Music for the 2014-2015 season. You will readily see that we have a superb year of music planned for your listening pleasure and hope that you can join us at one or more of our events....
Sunday, September 7, 4 pm
Two-Piano Recital and Dinner
Day residence, Forest Meadows, Murphys
Duo-pianists Diane Day and Ron Brickman repeat their very well-received program of two-piano music, first presented in June 2013 in Sutter Creek, in the home of Tim and Diane Day in Forest Meadows. The concert of easy-listening music from around the world by Poulenc, Piazzolla and others, concluding with Percy Grainger’s magistral Fantasy on Themes from Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess,” is followed by a summer buffet.
(Admission charged)
Sunday, September 28, 6 pm
“Night at the Opera”
Imperial Hotel, Amador City
Three top-notch opera singers with national reputations, Sandra and Chris Bengochea and Joseph Wiggett, perform arias, duos and trios from popular operas and musical theatre from Puccini to Andrew Lloyd Weber, while guests are served wines and a gourmet dinner prepared by the acclaimed chef and staff of Amador City’s historic Imperial Hotel. An exceptional evening’s entertainment.
(Admission charged)
Sunday, November 2, 2 pm
Baroque Music Concert
Sutter Creek Church of the Nazarene
Our first chamber concert of the season presents a program of Baroque music featuring seven of our top players, including Corina Stoian on violin, Hank King on recorder, and Ron Brickman on harpsichord. Music by Handel, Bach, Vivaldi, and others, with a surprise finish. (This program will also be performed as part of the Sonora Bach Festival on Saturday, October 11; call 209-536-6330 for more information.)
(Free admission)
Sunday, January 25, 2 pm
Chamber Music Concert
Sutter Creek Church of the Nazarene
The superb young oboist from San Francisco, Jesse Barrett, is the featured performer, playing the Quartet for oboe and strings of Mozart and the gorgeous Quintet for oboe, violin, viola, cello and piano of French Romantic composer Théodore Dubois.
(Free admission)
Sunday, March 8, 3 pm
Symphony Concert
Sutter Creek Church of the Nazarene
The Orchestra of the Mother Lode Friends of Music, under the direction of Henrik Jul Hansen, performs an all-Richard Strauss program, including the sublime Death and Transfiguration tone poem and the jubilant Festmarch. Soprano Alexis Magaro performs two beautiful lieder with orchestra and concludes the program with the glorious final scene from the opera Capriccio, Strauss’ last operatic statement.
(Admission charged)
Sunday, April 12, 3 pm
Chamber Music Concert
St. Katherine Drexel Catholic Parish, Martell
Flutist George Appelbaum joins a quartet of string players in the beautiful Theme and Variations by Amy Beach, America’s first and foremost woman composer. The quartet then joins pianist Ron Brickman in the Quintet for piano and strings of Edward Elgar. Soprano Marie Bedard performs four Catalan songs of Joaquin Rodrigo.
(Free admission)
Sunday, May 3, 2 pm
Chamber Music Concert
Sutter Creek Church of the Nazarene
Our final concert of the season will feature the buoyant and tuneful Septet for flute, clarinet, horn, bassoon, violin, cello and piano of Louis Spohr, a contemporary of Schubert. In the second half, double bass virtuoso Alden Cohen, our Distinquished Young Artist of the Year, performs an exhilarating selection of works for double bass solo and with piano.
(Free admission)
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For further, up-to-date information about all Friends of Music’s events, consult our web site at www.mlfm.org.
The public is invited to support the Mother Lode Friends of Music by becoming members. Membership dues for the 2014-2015 season are $25 per household. Members receive advance notice of all events, with detailed program notes, and priority for tickets. Please fill out the accompanying membership form and send it in with your check to the address below.
MOTHER LODE FRIENDS OF MUSIC
P.O. Box 1362
Jackson, CA 95642
(209) 293-4227
www.mlfm.org
The Sutter Creek Church of the Nazarene is located at 14050 Ridge Road, Sutter Creek, about three miles east on Ridge Road from the intersection with Highway 49. St. Katherine Drexel Catholic Parish is located at 11361 Prospect Place in Martell. Ample parking with easy disability access in both locations. Donations are appreciated.
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