The Good Musician

Lois Perkins Chapel, on the Southwestern University campus, was a little bit of heaven for serious music lovers last Friday evening. An enraptured audience participated in a Cathedral Evensong service much like Felix Mendelssohn would have experienced. Bishop Joe Wilson celebrated with a slightly abridged version of the 1853 Anglican Book of Common Prayer, and the audience enjoyed a sonic and cerebral treat in the performance of new scholarly editions and rarely heard Mendelssohn works for chorale, boy soprano, and organ.
Organist John Schmidt chose the Sonata in A Major, Op. 65, No. 3 as the prelude to the evening. AVAE, …read more

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AVAE will present an evening of vocal chamber music by American composers on Thursday, April 3 at Hope Presbyterian Church. Also performing at the 8:00 p.m. concert are singers from St. Edward’s University. From Shaker songs to the tonal and rhythmic complexity of Lauridsen’s setting of “Ubi Caritas,” the night will be an aural feast. Mostly a capella, the works that include piano are tastefully delivered by David Utterback. Kenny Sheppard puts the choir through their paces–in Chris Foley’s exhaustive rubric to assess professional skills, Kenny would be three-star, all the way.
If you’re in the Austin area, drop on …read more

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