CSG's 2021-22 Concert Season - 'Melody, Harmony & Grace'
Schedule
Mon Jan 24 2022 at 08:00 pm to 10:00 pm
Location
Wesley United Methodist Church at Frederica | Saint Simons Island, GA
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PROGRAM:Gioachino Rossini - Barber of Seville Overture;
Reynaldo Hahn - Concerto Provencal;
Jennifer Higdon - Amazing Grace;
Josef Suk - Serenade for Strings, Op. 6.
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The merry overture to the Barber of Seville provides the perfect opening for our concert season.
This early 19th Century piece has endured as a popular favorite with its fast-moving strings, intriguing winds, and changing tempos.
Four wind soloists will shine with Concerto Provencal from Venezuelan-born French composer, Reynaldo Hahn. Written in 1945 near the end of his career, the music is sunny, optimistic, and distinguished by the melodious flow and Romantic flair for which Hahn is known.
A soothing string arrangement of Amazing Grace, written in Jennifer Higdon’s own unique voice, follows. Higdon is considered one of our most influential living American composers. The lush,
classically tonal theme of the old hymn moves through variations and different tempi, without
pause.
Joseph Suk’s melodic and harmonically rich Serenade for Strings brings us a series of
interchanging moods for our final selection. Suk was just 18 years of age when he wrote the
piece. His tutor, Antonin Dvorak, had seen a melancholy strain to Suk’s music and encouraged
him to write something more light and cheerful. The serenade accomplishes that, but not without shadows of his melancholia seeping up through the extended songlike melodies.
This concert will charm and enchant us!
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Where is it happening?
Wesley United Methodist Church at Frederica, 6520 Frederica Rd, Saint Simons Island, GA 31522, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays: