Music News
Callling All Guitar Players
Join the St. George's Guitar Guild!Exciting new musical opportunities are in the works here at St. George's. The Guitar Guildis being organized under the guidance of Gerry Senechal. We will meet and play together periodically. Basic skills to advanced skills are all welcome! Contact Kim King at 376-9888.
Two Hands, Two Feet, Six Keyboards
A Concert with Murray SomervilleSunday, May 4th, 3:00pm
The Concert Series committee asked if I could devise a concert using all three keyboard instruments that grace our sanctuary from time to time – so a program that will involve my two hands, my two feet, and all six keyboards! The chamber organ and the harpsichord are as much for accompanying other musicians as solos – so as well as playing solos by Gibbons and Couperin, I will be joined on the chamber organ by our mezzo-soprano Mareike Sattler in music of Schütz, and on the harpsichord by violinist Rebecca Cole (of the Nashville Symphony and Belle Meade Baroque) in the A major sonata of Bach. Then I will cross to the great Casavant organ for music of Cesar Franck and Herbert Howells, as well as two American pieces with special meaning for me – the double fugue on “God Save the Queen” by John Knowles Paine that I resurrected from the library at Harvard, and a prelude by Charles Callahan, dedicated to Hazel and me, on “Draw us in the Spirit’s tether.”