Publick Musick: Upcoming Concerts

FINAL CONCERT THIS SEASON

Every time I feel the spirit:
200 Years of Music by Black Composers
Art songs, sonatas, and spirituals from England, Brazil, France, and the United States. Works by Sancho, Nuñes Garcia, Saint-Georges, Florence Price, and William Grant Still.

Reginald Mobley, countertenor, and Henry Lebedinsky, harpsichord and piano.

THREE PERFORMANCES

Friday May 18, 12:15 pm
St. Luke and St. Simon Cyrene Church, 17 Fitzhugh St., Rochester, NY
Free half-hour lunchtime preview concert

Saturday May 19, 7:30 pm
St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Clara Barton and School St., Dansville, NY
Admission is free to this concert

Sunday, May 20, 2012 at 3:00 pm
Christ Episcopal Church, 36 South Main Street, Pittsford, NY
Admission is $15 ($10 for students/seniors; children under 12 free). This concert will be followed by a meet-the-artists reception featuring goodies from Hedonist Artisan Chocolates and Flour City Bread Company. Also, Finger Lakes winemaker Josh Parker of Eremita Winery will provide a wine tasting.

Free on-street parking available. All venues are handicapped-accessible.

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Special Guest Countertenor Reginald Mobley sings Music of Black Composers

Over two centuries of music by Black composers from England, Brazil, France, and the United States will fill the air as countertenor Reginald Mobley and pianist/harpsichordist Henry Lebedinsky present Every Time I Feel the Spirit.

A native of Florida, Reginald Mobley has been heard across the country as a soloist with Miami’s Grammy® award-nominated Seraphic Fire, The Oregon Bach Festival, The San Antonio Symphony, Portland Baroque Orchestra, and Apollo’s Fire.

The program features music by African Americans Florence Price and Harry T. Burleigh as well as William Grant Still’s breathtaking Songs of Separation. Mobley will also perform songs by Ignatius Sancho (born on a slave ship in 1729), who became a successful businessman, man of letters, and the first African to vote in a British parliamentary election; and a motet and Portuguese modiñhas by early 19th-century Brazilian composer Fr. José Mauricio Nuñes Garcia. The concert will end with a set of rousing spirituals.

This concert season is made possible, in part, with funds from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts, administered by the Arts and Cultural Council for Greater Rochester

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PREVIOUS CONCERTS

Sunday January 15, 2012
3:00 pm

Mozart String Quintets K. 516 and K. 593
Written shortly before his untimely death, these
quintets are some of Mozart's greatest works for chamber ensemble.

Jennifer Roig-Francoli and Boel Gidholm, violins; Rachel Evans and Cynthia K. Black, violas; Christopher Haritatos, cello

Isabella Leonarda:
Vespers of the Blessed Virgin Mary, 1698
In this concert, Publick Musick brings to life vocal and instrumental music by the most prolific female composer of the 17th century, Isabella Leonarda, an Ursuline nun. Recognized as a master of the solo motet, Leonarda was also a superb composer of instrumental music, and this program will feature one of her trio sonatas as well as her beautiful and harmonically daring violin sonata, the first composed by a woman. Framing the program will be the Rochester premiere of movements for the Vespers service from her Op. 19. Published in 1698, near the end of her long life, they show her at the height of her compositional powers. Featuring solos by Rochester favorites Laura Heimes, soprano, Pablo Bustos, tenor, and Boel Gidholm, violin.

Laura Heimes, soprano
Katy Avery, alto
Pablo Bustos, tenor
Harris Ipock, bass
Boel Gidholm and Michael Albert, violin
Christopher Haritatos, cello
Henry Lebedinsky, organ
Deborah Fox, theorbo

Saturday March 24, 7:30 pm
St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Dansville, NY
Admission is free.

Sunday March 25, 3:00 pm
Christ Episcopal Church, 36 South Main Street, Pittsford, NY. Admission is $15 ($10 for students/seniors; children under 12 free). This concert will be followed by a meet-the-artists reception featuring goodies from Hedonist Artisan Chocolates, Flour City Bread Company, and Eremita Winery.

This concert season is made possible, in part, with funds from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts, administered by the Arts and Cultural Council for Greater Rochester

Featured Performers

Sunday January 15, 2012 3:00 pm

Sunday January 15, 2012
3:00 pm