WE ARE SONG
Festival of Song at the Scottish Rite Center
One-hour recitals by stars of The Santa Fe Opera, followed by meet-the-artists-receptions.
$30 general admission
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4 pm Sunday, July 31, 2011
Mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard & pianist Joseph Illick
Songs by Fauré, Rachmaninoff, & de Falla; arias by Handel, Mozart, & Rossini LISTEN AND VIEW
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6 pm Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Bass-baritone Daniel Okulitch & pianist-composers Lowell Liebermann, Glen Roven, &
Ricky Ian Gordon
Songs by Lowell Liebermann, Glen Roven, & Ricky Ian Gordon
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4 pm Sunday, August 7, 2011
Bass-baritone Eric Owens & pianist Joseph Illick
Songs by Schubert, Schumann, Wagner, Duparc, Debussy, and Ravel
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7:30 pm Monday, December 5, 2011
Anonymous 4: Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi
To mark their 25th year together, Anonymous 4 have created a truly unique and very special concert program, ANTHOLOGY 25. It features ancient, traditional and modern works from each of their 19 prize-winning, chart-topping harmonia mundi cds, in one, two, three and four voices, ranging from 11th century plainchant, richly harmonic English conductus and spicy French motets of the 13th century, exotic 15th-century Hungarian polyphony, 19th century shape note hymns, and contemporary works.
It also includes David Lang's "the wood and the vine," jointly commissioned by Newman Center for the Performing Arts, University of Denver; University of California at Riverside (world premiere); Santa Fe Concert Association; and Anonymous 4.
$10-$50
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Pre Concert Dinner
Join Artistic Director Joe Illick prior to a few selected concerts to chat about the music, and meet other people in an intimate setting who share your love of music and fine performances.
Enjoy a splendid meal at one of the best restaurants in town, then join your dinner companions at the concert immediately following. Enjoy a three course meal for just $45 or include a glass of wine for $10 more. This price includes tax and gratuity but does not include the price of concert tickets. All dinners begin at 5:30pm.
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7:30 pm Saturday, March 3, 2012
Apollo's Fire: Lensic Performing Arts Center
"Mediterranean Nights: Sultry Songs & Passionate Dances from Italy & Spain"
Apollo's Fire presents: "Mediterranean Nights: Sultry Songs & Passionate Dances from Italy & Spain". This performance offers a program of saucy and scintillating love songs from Italy and Spain, performed with Apollo's Fire's inimitable style.
Named for the classical god of music and the sun, Apollo's Fire was founded in 1992 by the award- winning young harpsichordist and conductor Jeanette Sorrell, who envisioned an ensemble dedicated to the baroque ideal that music should evoke the various Affekts or passions in the listeners. Apollo's Fire is a collection of creative artists who share Sorrell's passion for drama and rhetoric.
Hailed as "one of America's leading baroque orchestras" (The Boston Globe), and "a front-runner among America's finest baroque orchestras" (The Independent, London), Apollo's Fire enjoys sold- out performances at its subscription series in Cleveland. The ensemble has toured throughout North America, performing at venues such as the Aspen Music Festival, the Boston Early Music Festival series, the Library of Congress, the Ojai International Festival in California, and the Chautauqua Institution. The ensemble recently completed an 11-concert national tour of the Monteverdi Vespers.
Apollo's Fire made its European debut tour in November 2010, to standing ovations in Spain and the Netherlands, and a sold-out crowd at London's Wigmore Hall, where the concert was broadcast by the BBC. This season, Apollo's Fire tours internationally with countertenor Philippe Jaroussky, with engagements in Bordeaux, Madrid and Lisbon, as well as Boston, Toronto, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Apollo's Fire has released 17 commercial CD's, and currently records for the British label AVIE. Apollo's Fire is broadcast frequently on National Public Radio, Canada's CBC, Britain's BBC, and the European Broadcasting Union. The ensemble's television special "Discovering Vivaldi," produced by Cleveland's PBS television station, will begin national syndication on PBS stations in 2011.
Artists include:
Jeannette Sorrell, harpsichord & director
Nell Snaidas, soprano
Steve Player, dancer/guitarist
Olivier Brault & Johanna Novom, violinists
René Schiffer, cellist
Dan Swenberg, theorboist & guitarist
Rex Benincasa, percussionist
$20-$72
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7:30 pm Tuesday, March 20, 2012: Lensic Performing Arts Center
The Swingle Singers
Grammy Award Winning Swingle Singers, the international a cappella phenomenon
The Swingle Singers are an international a cappella phenomenon. For over four decades, the unmistakable sound of "Swingle singing" has defined the art form: virtuosic vocal agility and blend demonstrated by their signature close-microphone technique, combined with high-level entertainment that has thrilled audiences around the globe. The latest lineup of young and talented voices represents the group's transformation from pioneering classical/jazz crossover artists to contemporary vocal super-group.
Their repertoire encompasses classical, jazz, Latin, pop and rock, all accompanied by their own vocal rhythm section. The Swingle Singers have performed all across the UK, America, Asia, and virtually every country in Europe, have released over 50 recordings, and have won five Grammy Awards. Recent commissions have been penned by such names as British Jazz legend John Dankworth, Michael Nyman, French composer Pascal Zavaro, and Berio's protégé, Azio Corghi.
It is hard to comprehend that it all began as an exercise in sight-reading, to alleviate the monotony of sixties backing vocals. Eight Paris-based jazz session singers worked their way through some Bach keyboard repertoire one day and discovered a natural swing to the music. Without changing a note of the original score, they adapted the music for voice, added a rhythm section and persuaded Philips record company to record it for them as Christmas presents for family and friends. Little did they know the level of fame to which this record would elevate them: Jazz Sébastien Bach reached number one in the charts and won several Grammy awards.
Today, there are few music lovers who haven't heard the name the Swingle Singers. Since the release of that ground-breaking debut album in 1963, this virtuosic eight-voice a cappella group (complete with their own vocal rhythm section) has performed on the world's most famous stages, sustaining over four decades a level of international popularity beyond the dreams of its founder, American-born Ward Swingle.
The current London-based line-up of young and talented singers is, of course, several incarnations of "Swingles" older than the original team (Ward Swingle affectionately refers to them as his "grandchildren"). They represent a modern incarnation of an ensemble whose music has evolved and expanded to encompass styles far and beyond the swung Baroque and infamous "ba va da" of the 1960s, although audiences will usually hear a tribute to the original French group. Along with the repertoire, the stage show has also grown into a full-blown lights-and-choreography spectacle. The beauty is that however the group has changed, the sound remains unmistakably that of the Swingle Singers, the same sound which caught the world's attention all those years ago.
$20-$72
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7:30pm April 21, 2012
Great Hall of St. John's College, Santa Fe
Julian Pollack Jazz Trio
Presented by the Santa Fe Concert Association, Friends of Santa Fe Jazz and St. John’s College.
Enjoy pianist/composer/arranger Julian Waterfall Pollack, a classically-trained rising star in the jazz world.
This special event is a benefit for the Santa Fe Botanical Garden. Ticket price includes “Meet the Artists” complimentary dessert reception for purchasers of Sponsor tickets. Advance sponsorship provided by Santa Fe BMW, Wells Fargo Advisors, and Vazquez Portfolio Group, UBS .
Pianist/composer Julian Pollack has opened at the Blue Note for such illustrious figures as Chick Corea and Gary Burton and has performing and recording engagements with Joshua Redman, Nicholas Payton, and Miguel Zenon. He has performed at the The Kennedy Center and the Lincoln Center, as well as at numerous jazz venues and festivals around the world and is the artistic director of the Jazz series at the Mendocino Music Festival. His most recent CD is Infinite Playground.
Bassist Noah Garabedian is the recipient of a John Coltrane National Scholarship and a 2007 finalist for the Thelonius Monk Institute of Jazz graduate program.
Drummer Evan Hughes has collaborated with such figures as Joe Lovano, John Scofield, and George Garzone.
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Sponsors, $75 per person (includes “meet the artists” dessert reception)
General Admission, $30 person
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