Friday, March 2, 2018 — 5:30pm Music of Paradis, Lauber, Persichetti, and Ibert David Glen Ponder, is a diverse musician having been featured as a soloist with orchestra as a pianist, harpist, violist and singer. Mr. Ponder has performed on the stages of Kennedy Center’s Concert Hall, the Library of Congress, and the U.S. Capital. […]
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Northern New Mexico Piano Quartet
Friday, February 23, 2018 — 5:30pm Music of Johannes Brahms Program: Johannes Brahms’ Piano Quartet No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 60 Allegro non troppo I. Scherzo: Allegro II. Andante III. Finale: Allegro comodo Members of the quartet are Ari Le (violin), Brian Newnam (viola), Shanalyn Kemme (cello), and Cindy Little (piano)
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Friday, February 16, 2018 — 5:30pm Music of “The Five” César Cui, Aleksandr Borodin, Mily Balakirev, Modest Mussorgsky, and Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov Program: Glinka – “La Separation” Nocturne Balakirev – Scherzo no 1 Glinka/Balakirev – “The Lark” Mussorgsky – The Seamstress Cesar Cui – Preludes Op 64 No.6 and 8 Borodin – Scherzo in A flat […]
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Friday, February 9, 2018 — 5:30pm Music of Regino Sainz de la maza, Isaac Albeniz, and Francisco Tarrega Program: Petenera – Regino Sainz de la maza (1896-1981) Zapateado Leyenda – Isaac Albeniz ((1860-1909) Cadiz Recuerdos de la Alhambra – Francisco Tarrega (1852-1909) Capricho Arabe Sevilla- Isaac Albeniz Born in São Paulo, Brazil, Roberto Capocchi is […]
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Friday, February 2, 2018—5:30pm Medieval Ballads from Scandanavia, France and Scotland Program Search – Verses from the Finnish epic Kalevala The songs of the Kalevala have lived in oral tradition for centuries, maybe as far back as the Bronze Age. Elias Lönnrot wandered around Finland in the 19th century and collected a large number of […]
Read moreHow Long?
“How long, O Lord?” I found myself saying those ancient words last Saturday in a contemporary setting that is defining our culture. The first was in Chicago traffic as I sped off to Midway Airport to catch my plane after being part of a memorial service for an old high school friend who died of […]
Read moreIsaiah 43:16-21
Praise God I never quite saw the memo that told us what praising God really means. All I can figure is joy has something to do with it and there is singing somewhere in the definition. I got the memo last Sunday. It’s from Isaiah. Took till chapter 43 but there it was. The first […]
Read moreActs 9:36-43
BHAG Big Hairy Audacious Goal. That’s what BHAG stands for. I came across the term while attending a CREDO conference in southern Indiana in early 2011. CREDO is a denomination-sponsored week-long program for mid-career clergy that helped us look at our lives and ministry in a holistic way. I loved it. I didn’t want to […]
Read moreActs 16: 9-15
Route Change Funny how we have an idea on which way to go but we often don’t get there, and if we do it is by an entirely different route. Just ask Paul. One night he has a vision which clearly states he should go to Macedonia and help a man there and he ends […]
Read moreRevelation 21:1-6
Visions “A new heaven and a new earth” is quite the vision for a world seized by the might of Rome. We might think we know the Rome of the New Testament but there is little to compare it to our experience. In the words of Diana Butler Bass in A People’s History of Christianity, […]
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