2011-2012 Program
Sunday, March 18, 2012
4:00PM
Bach Festival VI
with guest artists: "Quire"
Quire Cleveland, Ross Duffin, Artistic Director, is a professional choral ensemble, founded in 2008, that performs choral masterpieces of the late Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque eras, and beyond.
Quire is the featured guest artist for Bach VI. Quire's program, entitled, Lobet den Herrn, features leading composers of the 16th through 18th centuries, including Heinrich Isaac, Johann Walther, Heinrich Schütz, and several members of the Bach family.
"To hear this professional choir singing Renaissance and Baroque music in which it specializes was to know something on the order of bliss. The ensemble’s program, “Lobet den Herrn: German Music for Quire,” was packed with sacred works by some of the greats of the 15th through 18th centuries, including composers that deserve more than footnotes in music history."
-Donald Rosenberg, The Cleveland Plain Dealer
Listen to Quire's performance of Johann Michael Bach's work, "Jesu, meine freude."
Sunday, April 1, 2012
4:00 PM
Passion Music and Evensong
Walt Gaber, Cantor
Cantor Walt Gaber will lead choir and instrumentalists in a spiritual journey of music reflective of the Lenten season.
Saturday, May 5, 2012
7:00 PM
Steve Rudolph Trio with guest vocalist J.D. Walter
Yamaha Performing Artist Steve Rudolph, with fellow musicians Steve Meashey, bassist and Joe Hunt, drums will be joined by featured vocal soloist, J.D. Walter, to bring a memorable evening of jazz to the Erie community.
Steve began his career with the Tommy Dorsey orchestra. His vast experience encompasses concert performances with many jazz masters including Louie Bellson, Clark Terry, Terry Gibbs, Rufus Reid, Buddy Tate, Al Grey, Bill Goodwin, and Sal Nistico. He has toured throughout the U.S., India, Europe, Canada, Russia and the Caribbean. For five consecutive years Harrisburg Magazine has named Steve "Best musician in Central Pa." Steve is a founder of the Central PA Friends of Jazz and, since 1978, has been largely responsible for the growth and development of the thriving jazz scene in Central Pennsylvania.
A special educational seminar on improvisation will be available to interested musicians regardless of instrument on a first come first serve basis. For further information go to "Contact Us" page and send us an e-mail requesting an information packet.
Listen to this live recording of the Steve Rudolph Trio and J.D. Walter as broadcast by NPR station WVIA
PAST EVENTS:
Saturday, December 24, 2011
5:30PM and 10:30 PM
Christmas Eve Meditation for Piano, Cello and Handbells
Familiar carols commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ precede the Service of Holy Eucharist on the Eve of the Nativity beginning at 6:00 PM and again for the Service of Lessons and Carols at 11PM as presented under the direction of Cantor Walt Gaber.
4:00PM
Bach Festival VI
with guest artists: "Quire"
Quire Cleveland, Ross Duffin, Artistic Director, is a professional choral ensemble, founded in 2008, that performs choral masterpieces of the late Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque eras, and beyond.
Quire is the featured guest artist for Bach VI. Quire's program, entitled, Lobet den Herrn, features leading composers of the 16th through 18th centuries, including Heinrich Isaac, Johann Walther, Heinrich Schütz, and several members of the Bach family.
"To hear this professional choir singing Renaissance and Baroque music in which it specializes was to know something on the order of bliss. The ensemble’s program, “Lobet den Herrn: German Music for Quire,” was packed with sacred works by some of the greats of the 15th through 18th centuries, including composers that deserve more than footnotes in music history."
-Donald Rosenberg, The Cleveland Plain Dealer
Listen to Quire's performance of Johann Michael Bach's work, "Jesu, meine freude."
Sunday, April 1, 2012
4:00 PM
Passion Music and Evensong
Walt Gaber, Cantor
Cantor Walt Gaber will lead choir and instrumentalists in a spiritual journey of music reflective of the Lenten season.
Saturday, May 5, 2012
7:00 PM
Steve Rudolph Trio with guest vocalist J.D. Walter
Yamaha Performing Artist Steve Rudolph, with fellow musicians Steve Meashey, bassist and Joe Hunt, drums will be joined by featured vocal soloist, J.D. Walter, to bring a memorable evening of jazz to the Erie community.
Steve began his career with the Tommy Dorsey orchestra. His vast experience encompasses concert performances with many jazz masters including Louie Bellson, Clark Terry, Terry Gibbs, Rufus Reid, Buddy Tate, Al Grey, Bill Goodwin, and Sal Nistico. He has toured throughout the U.S., India, Europe, Canada, Russia and the Caribbean. For five consecutive years Harrisburg Magazine has named Steve "Best musician in Central Pa." Steve is a founder of the Central PA Friends of Jazz and, since 1978, has been largely responsible for the growth and development of the thriving jazz scene in Central Pennsylvania.
A special educational seminar on improvisation will be available to interested musicians regardless of instrument on a first come first serve basis. For further information go to "Contact Us" page and send us an e-mail requesting an information packet.
"... Rudolph is
a savvy, swinging, consistent, glimmering heavyweight. His time is
impeccable and the subtlety of his articulation and his ability to make
dynamic changes is impressive....... Rudolph is
outstanding."
-Joe Patitucci Jazz Improv Magazine
Listen to this live recording of the Steve Rudolph Trio and J.D. Walter as broadcast by NPR station WVIA
"Walter
is reshaping what jazz singing is all about. He is opening up familiar material
to the most adventurous kinds of interpretation, while continuing to engage and
entertain his audiences. . .he is an original in an art overpopulated with
copycats."
- Don Heckman, LA
Times
PAST EVENTS:
Saturday, December 24, 2011
5:30PM and 10:30 PM
Christmas Eve Meditation for Piano, Cello and Handbells
Familiar carols commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ precede the Service of Holy Eucharist on the Eve of the Nativity beginning at 6:00 PM and again for the Service of Lessons and Carols at 11PM as presented under the direction of Cantor Walt Gaber.
Luther Memorial Concert Series 225 West 10th Street, Erie PA 16510 814-454-0106
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