TGIF, May 1, 5:30pm

This Friday, listen to a collection of music played on cellos by David Schepps and Janet Anthony as they play pieces from Michel Corette, Frantz Casseus, Antonio Vivaldi, Bela Bartok, and Haitian folk music. Doors to the sanctuary open at 5:15pm and the concert begins at 5:30pm. The concert is free with donations accepted.

Program

Michel Corette  (1707-1795)
Sonate pour deux violoncelles in G Major
Adagio
Tempo di Minuetto
Sarabande
Allegro

Nan fon Bwa (Deep in the Woods) – Frantz Casseus (1915-1993)
Peze Kafe (Weighing Coffee) – Haitian folk music

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Sonata No 2 in F major, RV 41
Largo
Allegro
Largo
Allegro

Bela Bartok (1881-1945)
From the 44 Duos for two violins
Midsummer Nights Song
Teasing Song
Ruthenian Song
Cushion Dance

Artists

Janet Anthony, cellist

Janet Anthony is a cellist, educator, and arts leader whose career combines performance and purpose. A longtime professor of cello at Lawrence University, now emerita, she has mentored generations of young musicians. Janet is also a co-founder and now Executive Director of Building Leaders Using Music Education in Haiti (BLUME Haiti). This summer will mark her 30th year working alongside Haitian musicians to expand access to music education nationwide. Her work reflects a deep belief in music as a source or resilience, community, hope and joy.

David Schepps, cellist

Cellist David Schepps was on the faculty at the University of New Mexico, played concerti in the US and abroad, recitals at NY’s Lincoln Center Library, Washington DC’s Phillips Collection, throughout the US, in Europe and Asia, concerts with the Parker (Grammy winners) and La Catrina string quartets, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, and broadcasts on NPR “Performance Today.” He is a member of the New Mexico Philharmonic, was principal of the Santa Fe Symphony, played in L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, and the Colorado, Kansas City, and Hawai’i symphonies among others. His summers include the Grand Teton Music Festival, Santa Fe Opera Orchestra, and principal of Arizona Opera’s Wagner Ring Cycles. He studied with Pierre Fournier in Geneva on a Fulbright, Claus Adam and Timothy Eddy at New York’s Mannes and Manhattan schools of music, and has a doctorate from Arizona State University. He also plays bass in the Symphony Orchestra of Albuquerque and Albuquerque Philharmonic.