TGIF, Jul 5, 5:30pm
Kehar Koslowsky, mezzo soprano, and Debbie Wagner, piano, bring us the music of Copland, Dillard, Gordon, Arlen, Guettel and Brown at our Friday TGIF concert on July 5th. Doors to the sanctuary open at 5:15pm and the concert begins at 5:30pm. The concert is free with donations accepted.
Program
- Zion’s Walls – Aaron Copland, traditional American hymn
- Of Gods and Cats, Jake Heggie, lyrics by Gavin Geoffrey Dillard
- In the beginning
- Once upon a universe
- Daybreak in Alabama – Ricky Ian Gordon, lyrics by Langston Hughes
- Sleepin Bee, from “St. Louis Woman”, by Harold Arlen, lyrics by Truman Capote and Harold Arlen
- Fable, from “Light in the Piazza, lyrics and music by Adam Guettel
- Stars and the Moon, from “Songs for a New World”- lyrics and music by Jason Robert Brown
- Selections from “Wonderful Town”, Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green
- 100 ways to lose a man
- Little bit in love
Kehar Koslowsky
Mezzo-Soprano Kehar Koslowsky is an accomplished choral artist, currently singing with The Santa Fe Symphony Chorus, with whom she was a soloist last season in Vivaldi’s Gloria. She has performed extensively in the Washington, DC, area with the Cathedral Choral Society, Washington Bach Consort, and Woodley Ensemble. She was a staff singer at St. Michael’s Cathedral, and St. John’s Church Lafayette Square—where she sang for both Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
A graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park, Kehar was a soloist for Bach Fest 2007 with Kenneth Slowik, and Mozart’s Coronation Mass. Her opera roles include Diana in Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld with the Janiec Opera Company; Desdemona in Rossini’s Otello with Maryland Opera Studio; Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier, Rosina in Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia, and Dorabella in Cosi Fan Tutte with the Crittenden Opera Studio; and multiple seasons as a chorus member with Saratoga Opera. As a concert singer, she has performed the works of Bach, Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart, Brahms, and Bernstein and has worked with conductors J. Reilly Lewis, Bill Roberts, Kenneth Slowik, and David Effron.
A native of Saratoga Springs, New York, she moved to the Santa Fe area in 2012 where she developed a great fondness for red and green chili and hiking in the high desert terrain. When not singing, she can be found dancing and spending time outdoors, and working as a freelance Web Product/Project Manager.
Deborah Wagner
A native of Las Vegas, Nevada, Deborah completed her Doctorate of Musical Arts at Arizona State University after having obtained degrees from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and Northwestern University. Since moving to Santa Fe in 2006, she has performed with Santa Fe New Music, the Santa Fe Symphony, the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, the Placitas Artists Series, Coro de Camera, New Mexico Performing Arts Society, and the Sangre de Christo Chorale. Deborah has been on the faculties of New Mexico Highlands University and Santa Fe University of Art and Design, in addition to maintaining a private teaching studio. She regularly works with singers and instrumentalists in the Santa Fe area and has toured with soloists and choirs throughout the country.