St. Vincent's

Marilyn has very old connections to this church. She has been organist there for many many years and is going to show off the organ by playing Pièce Héroique by Franck.

Details!

The concert on Monday the 28th is at 7:30 at

St. Vincent de Paul Church. It's a beautiful old church built in 1927 at the huge cost of $200,000 dollars.... and was paid for in one year!

The address is 35 Liberty St. Petaluma. It's very close to downtown, just off Western and a few blocks west of Petaluma Blvd North.

Finalizing the "F" program.....

Well, in the final plan, Foote got the boot. (sorry)

But Faure came out ahead with both songs sung by soprano Carol Menke and the Elegy played by Judiyaba with Marilyn Thompson on organ! The same duo will play a deFesch (1687-1761) Sonata. Finzi (1897-1945) Bagatelles for clarinet and piano, with Roy Zajac and Nancy Hayashibara. Fruhling (do his dates spring to mind? 1868-1937) Trio for piano, clarinet and cello

and to show off the organ, a piece by Franck.

No living composers this time....but a fun mix.

Summer Plans!

All three summer concerts are in the planning stages.......getting close to finalizing!

But to let you know a bit......

June 28, a Monday night (we really are going for variety) the concert will be at St. Vincents Church in Petaluma. Gorgeous church! And big! We thought it would be fun to bring everyone up to the organ loft for half the concert...and then downstairs by the piano for the other half. Faure (songs, and..), Finzi (Bagatelles for clarinet and piano), De Fesch, Foote (I'll keep you guessing) and Fruhling.

Carol Menke, soprano; Marilyn Thompson, organ and piano; Nancy Hayashibara, piano; Roy Zajac, clarinet and Judiyaba, cello.

July 18....come to the coast!! We have a 4pm concert in the "church space" at Point Reyes Dance Palace. Lovely little wood lined space. Think Gabrielli, harpsichord, strings.....

And plan a day to get to the coast! Point Reyes is a cute little town, not far from Inverness and beaches. And restaurants for dinner after......

August 26, a Thursday evening, will be part of the Cinnabar Summer Music Festival in Petaluma. "H" is good.....from Handel to Harrison (that's Lou Harrison, a wonderful and very unusual string quartet.)

"D" photo

Charlie Lucke took this photo of the last piece on the "D" concert.

We were playing the Dohnanyi Piano Quintet (Gwyneth Davis was the page turner....sometimes the scariest job!)

More "E"s

Lots of "E"s!

Edward Elgar and Eric Ewazen! And the Eloquence String Quartet!

The quartet, made up of Peggy Brady and Rachelle Davis, violins, Beth Heid, viola and Gwyneth Davis can be checked out at Eloquencestringquartet.com. (pictures there too) They are playing the Elgar Quartet, a piece which isn't played nearly often enough.

But to crank up the volume a bit, Dan Norris will join them for a Quintet By Eric Ewazen, a composition teacher at Juilliard, who apparently went to Juilliard at the same time as Shinji.

about the "E" concert

Live composers are featured on the "E" concert!

San Francisco composer and bass player Shinji Eshima has written a very moving piece for bassoon, string quartet and optional buddhist monk. It's called Krapp's Endgame and refers to a Samuel Beckett play: Krapp's Last Tape, but also references an Allen Ginsberg's poem: Song.

It's a great poem. The beginning is:

The weight of the world

is love.

Under the burden

of solitude,

under the burden

of dissatisfaction

the weight,

The weight we carry

is love.

The players for this are; Greg Barber, bassoon, Peggy Brady and Rachelle David, violins, Beth Heid, viola and Judiyaba, cello.

Shinji also wrote a piece for Judiyaba and Gwyneth Davis called the Judiyabadabaduo, which we will play.