Church of the Good Shepherd 715 Kirkman Street Lake Charles, Louisiana
Tuesday evenings in June
Concerts begin at 7:30 p.m.
Why should you come to the 22nd season of The Summer Music Festival at Church of the Good Shepherd? Well, from the beginning of time, when the morning stars sang together to the end of time, when the trumpet shall sound, music has been and remains one of the most powerful forces in the universe. From stillness and simplicity to motion and whirl, there is some song, some melody, some turn of harmony or phrase from the performer’s heart to yours that will surely move you. Join us and see.
The opening program on June 2 is Better than Bullfights: La Musica—Olé! Don your sombrero for a tour of the Hispanic world, old and new. Guitarist Jay Kacherski and pianist Lina Morita will play the Prelude and Sonata for Guitar and Harpsichord of Mexican composer Manuel Ponce, Cuban composer Leo Brouwer’s rhythmic Toccata from Tres Danzas Concertantes, and the famous Adagio from Concierto de Aranjuez by Joaquin Rodrigo of Spain. The program closes with Luigi Boccherini’s Introduction and Fandango. Castanets required.
Believe it, betwixt and between three great composers, you will not begrudge a moment. You will be bemused, beguiled, and bespangled with pleasure on June 9, with Let it “B”: Music of Bach, Beethoven, and Bartok. Michael Buckles, violin and Boriana Buckles, piano, will perform J. S. Bach’s Sonata No. 1 in B Minor, with its sumptuous melodies, intricate counterpoint, and brilliant trumpet-like figures in the final movement. Beethoven’s Sonata No. 5 in F Major, Op. 24, the “Spring” sonata, follows. Last is Bela Bartok’s Rhapsody for Violin and Piano No. 1, which builds momentum to the end with its colorful and exotic melodies from Hungarian and Romanian folk dances. You will “B” enchanted.
Do you dance? Tangos, polkas, marches, and a tarantella or two are on order for June 16, when local chamber music ensemble Pastiche will entertain with Dancing on the Edge, featuring American music both whimsical and wild. McNeese faculty members Jan Scott, clarinet; David Scott, trumpet; with pianists Lina Morita and Fred Sahlmann and percussionist Lonny Benoit will perform Paul Bowles’ Music for a Farce from his theatre collaboration with Orson Welles, music of a father and son: Rough and Tumble by Don Freund, and Dialogue and Dance by his son Stefan Freund, as well as a collage of dance pieces by Igor Stravinksy, and three pieces either commissioned by or arranged for the group: Woodwork by Arthur Frackenpohl, Suite from Caroline, or Change by Jeanine Tesori, and Partly Sunny by Douglass Minerd.
Mystery and love, loss and consolation, night, moonlight and a concert of mostly Romantic music awaits you on June 23. Under a June Moon is the title of the closing program with alto Andrea Jaber, Tom Jaber, piano, and David Bynog, viola. They will perform music from Saint-Saëns’ opera Samson et Dalila, the Kindertotenlieder of Gustav Mahler, both Brahms’ Intermezzo in E-flat Major, Op. 117, No. 1 for piano, and his Two Songs for Alto and Viola, as well as Debussy’s Clair de lune. The program also includes Sergei Rachmaninoff’s songs, In the Silence of the Night and Spring Waters, as well as the Ave Maria by Bach/Gounod, and a piano transcription of J. S. Bach’s Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring. From lullabies to laments, from the stillness of memory and prayer to songs of powerful passion, this will be an evening you will long remember.
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