November 02, 2007

Pastiche Perfoms!

Mid-Morning Concert for All Souls Day

Friday, November 2, 2007 • 11 - 11:50am
St. Olaf Catholic Church, 215 South 8th Street, Minneapolis

Pastiche is an ensemble of performers from the faculty of the joint music department of the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University in Minnesota.

Pastiche performs an extraordinarily diverse repertoire composed for combinations of singers and instrumentalists from classical to jazz and beyond.
This concert will feature J. David Arnott on the viola (past president of the Minnesota Viola Society), Ed Turley at the piano and Bruce Thornton on clarinet.

Musical selections include the Mozart Trio for Viola, Clarinet, and piano (the Kegelstatt Trio), Schubert’s Litany for All Souls Day (transcribed by William Primrose) for viola and piano.

Free and open to the public.
Plan to stay for our Memorial Mass of All Souls at 12 Noon.

Posted by Rolf at 11:50 AM

November 11, 2007

KIM KASHKASHIAN, viola recital

Music in the Park Series
Sunday, Nov. 11, 2007, 4:00 P.M.
St. Anthony Park United Church of Christ
2129 Commonwealth Avenue at Chelmsford
St. Paul, MN

KIM KASHKASHIAN, viola; LYDIA ARTYMIW, piano

Single Tickets: $22 online purchase and at door
$12 students (when available)
To order your tickets,
call 651-645-5699 or order online: http://www.musicintheparkseries.org

The sometimes overlooked viola has found a peerless champion in internationally renowned artist Kim Kashkashian. She will be joined by Lydia Artymiw, Distinguished McKnight Professor at the University of Minnesota and perennial favorite of Music in the Park audiences, in a program of Kurtág, Bach, and Guastavino, culminating in the glorious Sonata in C Major for Viola and Piano by Dmitri Shostakovich.

3:00 P.M. pre-concert discussion

Posted by Rolf at 04:00 PM