Glen Jenks Ragtime Revue

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Aaron Robinson, Camden Opera House, GLENN JENKS RAGTIME REVUE

Saturday, October 5th, 2019, at 7:30 pm

Glen Jenks Ragtime Revue

Camden Opera House

29 Elm St., Camden, me

The first annual Glenn Jenks Ragtime Revue honors the life and legacy of Camden’s own ragtime pianist and composer by presenting today’s hottest singers and piano players.

On Saturday, October 5, 2019 ~ 30 years to the day from when celebrated Maine composer and pianist Glenn Jenks launched his very first Ragtime Harvest Revue in 1989 to a sold-out crowd ~ the GLENN JENKS RAGTIME REVUE will premiere at the Camden Opera House in Camden, Maine to honor his life, legacy and music. 

Sadly, Glenn Jenks passed away unexpectedly on January 21, 2016. The impact from this loss is still felt today. The GLENN JENKS RAGTIME REVUE will continue Jenk’s original visionary offerings through music, dance, song and humor. 

An exclusive Folio: THE COMPLETE RAGTIME WORKS FOR PIANO BY GLENN JENKS has been compiled and edited by music historian Aaron Robinson in commemoration for the October premiere.

Proceeds from the RAGTIME REVUE will go towards the GLENN JENKS MUSICAL SCHOLARSHIP ~ financially assisting students who wish to further their education in the field of music. 

Tickets at door: $15, $10 students younger than 19 and seniors 65 and older

https://www.camdenoperahouse.com/events/glenn-jenks-ragtime-revue

https://www.facebook.com/RagtimeAlchemist/

 

Resinosa Ensemble “American Reflections” USM

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American Reflections, Andre Previn, Daniel Sonenberg, Nancy Gunn, Resinosa Ensemble, Richard Nelson, University of Southern Maine, USM

Sunday September 29th, 2019

Masterclass at 10 am

Concert at 2pm

American Reflections

Resinosa Ensemble

University of Southern Maine

Corthell Concert Hall, Gorham Campus

Resinosa Ensemble, consisting of mezzo-soprano Joëlle Morris, cellist Eliza Meyer, and pianist Bridget Convey, will present music for piano, cello, and voice, including works by André Previn, Lukas Foss, Bunita Marcus, and Maine composers Richard Nelson and Nancy Gunn. Featured on the program will be the World Premiere of USM faculty composer Daniel Sonenberg’s Beauty is Not Enough, a cycle of six songs on texts by Maine native Edna St. Vincent Millay.

The ensemble is looking forward to their 2019-2020 season titled, American Reflections, featuring American composers and poets. The world lost one of our greats, André Previn, in February 2019, in his honor Resinosa will perform his “Four Songs”, poems by Toni Morrison, this is a fabulous set which truly displays Previn’s genius. In 2019, three Maine composers wrote for Resinosa, the following works will be premiered during this season; Daniel Sonenberg’s “Beauty is Not Enough”, text by Edna St. Vincent Millay; the final movement of Nancy Gunn’s “Spiresongs”, poems by Elizabeth Spires; and Richard Nelson’s “A Forest of Glass, a Kaleidoscope, a Dream”, poems by Ellen Taylor.  To complete the program, Resinosa will offer works for cello and piano; Lukas Foss’ “Capriccio” is a well-crafted and energizing work; and Bunita Marcus’ “Untrammeled Thought”, which offers a time to center oneself. This will be an exciting concert, featuring newly composed works by three Maine composers, as well as other musical gems.

10 a.m Master class is free. The 2 p.m. Concert is $15/$10/$5.

https://usm.maine.edu/music/resinosa-ensemble-master-class-and-concert

 

Spanish guitar in the 1860’s: solos and canciones

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Music at Colby series, Music in the Museum, Spanish guitar, Timothy Burris

Tuesday, September 24th, 2019, at noon

Music in the Museum Series – Colby College

Spanish guitar in the 1860’s: solos and canciones

Colby Museum of Art

The Paul J. Schupf Wing for the Works of Alex Katz

 Waterville, me

Timothy Burris, guitar, with special guest Joëlle Morris, mezzo-soprano.

This program is something of an experiment, bringing the performance-practice methodologies of early music to bear on a relatively recent body of music. The earliest piece on the program was published in 1860, or 159 years in the past. In fairness, had early music pioneer Arnold Dolmetsch (1858 – 1940) included music of early- to mid-period Haydn on one of his programs, the gap in time would have been about the same.

This program consists of the music of one decade(the 1860’s) in one country (Spain) composed for one instrument (the guitar). This decade was selected because the guitar used in the concert is a copy of an instrument built in 1864 by Antonio de Torres Jurado (and numbered FE17, or ‘First Epoch 17’). Guitar solos include works by Julián Arcas, Jaume Bosch (born in Barcelona, his German last name notwithstanding), Antonio Cano, and José Viñas; songs by Tomas Damas round out the program.

https://www.colby.edu/museum/2019/07/02/music-in-the-museum-tim-burris-and-joelle-morris/

Eastport Concert Series – Resinosa Ensemble

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Andre Previn, Eastport Arts Center, john newell, Resinosa Ensemble, scott wheeler, The Concert Series

Friday August 16th, 2019, at 7pm

Eastport Concert Series

Prelude to a Dream

Resinosa Ensemble

The Eastport Arts Center 

36 Washington Street, Eastport, ME

 

The Eastport Arts Center’s popular summer concert series continues on August 16 with Resinosa ensemble, including Joëlle Morris, mezzo-Soprano, Eliza Meyer, cello and Bridget Convey, piano. A reception with refreshments courtesy of Sweetie’s Dog-O-Rama will follow the concert.

Resinosa Ensemble focuses on the performance of chamber music, working with living composers, and offering music slightly off the beaten path. The trio’s program, “Prelude to a dream” Meets “American Reflections”, will feature a well-balanced assortment of “night” music and music written by American composers featuring American poets. Included works are Andre Previn’s “Four Songs”, with poems by Toni Morrison; Lukas Foss’ “Capriccio, for cello and piano”; Bohuslav Martinů’s “Nocturne III, for cello and piano”; and Johannes Brahms’ “Two Alto Songs.” The ensemble will also present Boston-based composer Scott Wheeler’s “Three Night Songs”, which he recently arranged for them. Finally, Eastport’s own John Newell composed “Night Songs”, a set of seven songs incorporating poems by Sara Teasdale, for the ensemble. “Newell’s music is wonderful,” said Convey, “and the Resinosa Ensemble considers it an honor to perform.”

The Concert Series runs through August 30. Tickets are $10, and youth tickets are discounted. Tickets may be purchased on the EAC site, or at the door. The Eastport Arts Center is at 36 Washington Street, Eastport, and at www.eastportartscenter.org, and is handicapped-accessible.

Lincoln Festival

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Boothbay Harbor, Lincoln Arts Festival, Mozart Requiem

Friday, August 9th, 2019, at 7:30 pm

Sunday, August 11th, at 7:30 pm

Lincoln Festival Chorus sings Mozart Requiem

Congregational Church

125 Townsend Ave, Boothbay Harbor, Maine 04538

The Lincoln Festival Chorus, under the direction of Linda Blanchard, and accompanied by organist Sean Fleming and a professional orchestra, will present the Mozart Requiem at the Congregational Church of Boothbay Harbor on Friday, August 9 and Sunday, August 11. Both concerts will be at 7:30 PM.

Featured soloists for the Requiem will be soprano Danielle Vayenas, alto Joelle Morris, tenor David Myers, Jr., and bass John David Adams.

 

Amethyst Ensemble Ayer Benefit June 2019

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Amethyst Chamber Ensemble, Groton School Chapel, Heinrich Christensen, St. Andrews Episcopal Church

Sunday, June 9th, 2019, at 3:00 pm

An afternoon of delight

Amethyst Chamber Ensemble

Groton School Chapel

282 Farmers Row

Groton, Massachusetts

• Mary Sullivan, Soprano
• Joëlle Morris, Mezzo-Soprano
• Will Prapestis, Baritone
• Sarah Geller, Violin
• Scott Nicholas, Piano
• Heinrich Christensen, Organ

 

Fundraising concert to benefit the Outreach ministries of St. Andrews in Ayer, MA. 

Artist of Amethyst together with King’s Chapel organist Heinrich Christensen, Baritone Will Prapestis and violinist Sarah Geller of NYC, offer a virtuosic and varied program of instrumental and vocal works in the gorgeous Groton School Chapel. 

CODA Chorus Spring 2019

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CODA Chorus, Kennebec Valley Youth Orchestra, KVYSO, Pineland Suzuki School, Vivaldi's Gloria

Saturday, May 4th 2019, at 7pm

Tuesday, May 7th 2019, at 7pm

Hope Baptist Church,
Rt 202, Manchester, Maine

Vivaldi’s Gloria

CODA Chorus & Kennebec Valley Youth Symphony Orchestra

 

Please join CODA Chorus, the Kennebec Valley Youth Symphony Orchestra and players of the Pineland Suzuki School as they present Vivaldi’s Gloria.   

Jinwook Park, conductor
Joelle Morris, Mezzo-Soprano
Mary Sullivan, Soprano

http://codachorus.com/

http://www.kvyso.org/

Colby Schubert

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Colby College, Colby College Chorale, Colby Kennebec Chorale Society, Colby Symphony Orchestra, Eric Christopher Perry, Franz Schubert, Jinwook Park, Mass in E-flat Major

Saturday, April 27, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, April 28, 7:30 p.m.

Mass in E-flat Major, No 6 by Franz Schubert

Colby Symphony Orchestra, Colby College Chorale & Colby Kennebec Chorale Society

Lorimer Chapel

Colby College

5600 Mayflower Hill, Waterville, Maine 

In their final performance of the season, the Colby Symphony Orchestra, Colby Chorale and the Colby Kennebec Chorale Society present Schubert’s monumental Mass in E-flat Major, No 6.  and Grieg’s famous Peer Gynt Suite No. 1. This performance will also feature a performance by the winner of the 2019 annual concerto competition.

Jinwook Park, director
Eric Christopher Perry, director

Featuring Mary Sullivan – Soprano, Joëlle Morris – Mezzo-Soprano, David Myers – Tenor, John David Adams – Baritone

https://www.colby.edu/musicdept/upcoming-events/

Music of Surrealism

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Bridget Convey, Colby College, Colby College Museum of Art, Music at Colby series, Music in the Museum, Music of Surrealism

Thursday, April 11th, 2019, at noon

Music of Surrealism

Music in the Museum Colby Concert Series 

Colby College Museum of Art

5600 Mayflower Hill, Waterville, Maine 

Joëlle Morris and pianist Bridget Convey will explore in music the revolutionary movement of 1920’s surrealism; aimed to highlight elements of surprise, the absurd, unexpected juxtapositions and non sequitur, through the leaders of the Surrealism movement such as artists Salvador Dali, René Magritte, writers Jean Cocteau, André Breton and others.  Featured will be compositions by Kurt Weill, Erik Satie, Francis Poulenc, Darius Milhaud, Arthur Honnegger and Olivier Messiaen. Concert presented both in French and in English.
Free to the public

https://www.facebook.com/events/2463049213921738/

Judas Maccabaeus

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franco center, Handel, John Corrie, Judas Maccabaeus, Maine Music Society

Saturday, March 30, 2019 at 7:30 pm

Sunday, March 31, 2019 at 3:00 pm

Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus

Maine Music Society

Gendron Franco Center

Lewiston, ME

George Frederic Handel composed this oratorio in 1746, five years after he wrote the more famous oratorio Messiah. This piece is based on the period when Judea was occupied by a dynasty of Hellenist kings who set about the destruction of the Jewish religion. The adherence to all Jewish law was forbidden. The story unfolds with the solos and choruses dramatizing the fight of the Maccabees against – and their eventual victory over – the occupying kings. The stunning music includes famous choruses, most notably the “Hallelujah, Amen.” You are sure to be moved by the magnificent music of this Baroque master.

John Corrie- Conductor
Joëlle Morris – Soloist
Maine Music Society Chorus and Orchestra

http://www.mainemusicsociety.org/season-events.html