SOUND PORTALS: FROM BACH TO ENESCU WITH ORGANIST DAN LAWHON

Name: SOUND PORTALS: FROM BACH TO ENESCU WITH ORGANIST DAN LAWHON
Start: 2024-05-09T19:00:00-05:00
Location: Baptist Church of the Covenant

Schedule

Thu May 09 2024 at 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Baptist Church of the Covenant | Birmingham, AL

Everyone is cordially invited to an evening of beautiful music with Baptist Church of the Covenant's master organist Dan Lawhon, with a guest appearance by violinist Daniel Szasz, concertmaster of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra. The program will feature music by
J. S. Bach, Jean Langlais, Nicolas de Grigny, Joseph Jongen, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Amy Beach, and George Enescu. Admission is FREE but donations to benefit Music4Romania's mission will gratefully be accepted. Everyone is invited and welcome!
Dan Edward Lawhon was called to be the Organist-Choirmaster at the Baptist Church of the Covenant in 2008. He received a Bachelor of Music degree from Belmont University in Nashville, TN and a Master of Church Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the School of Church Music at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.
Daniel Szasz has been the Concertmaster of the Alabama Symphony orchestra since 1997 and of the Lake Placid Sinfonietta since 2006. He received degrees from "Gh. Dima" Music Academy in Cluj, Romania, and from Bowling Green State University, in Bowling Green, Ohio.