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Houston Chamber performs Stravinsky’s Свадебка (Les Noces)
0 Comments Published by Jeff March 1st, 2008 in Houston Chamber Choir, Past performances
Игорь Фёдорович Стравинский (Igor Fjodorovič Stravinsky)
As a part of this season of Da Camera of Houston, the Houston Chamber Choir will perform Свадебка (Les Noces) by Igor Stravinsky under the direction of noted conductor Reinbert de Leeuw. In an interesting twist, this performance is coming the week before Holy Week. Actual ballet […]
Harry Potter and the Wells of Somerset
0 Comments Published by Jeff July 27th, 2007 in General, Harry Potter, Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church, Past performances, Personal, Snapecast, geekdom, spirituality/religionWhat a week.
What a week for the music ministry of Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church, having completed a week-long choral residency at the Cathedral Church of St. Andrew in Wells, England - it was the second-best choir tour I’ve been of which I’ve had a part (eclipsed only by that taken by the Bach Society […]
Palmer choir Pilgrimage to Wells, England
3 Comments Published by Jeff May 15th, 2007 in Harry Potter, Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church, Past performances, Personal, Snapecast, geekdomThe interior of Wells Cathedral with its dramatic interior buttressing.
This photo is taken from the Cathedral’s website at http://www.wellscathedral.org.uk/files/history/photo_nave.jpg
From 16-22 July of this year, the Adult Choir of Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church in Houston, in which I have been a staff singer for nigh-on-five years, will be the choir in residence at Wells Cathedral in […]
Last Bach Vespers of the season
0 Comments Published by Jeff May 2nd, 2007 in Bach Society, Christ the King Lutheran Church, Past performancesCome one and come all! The Bach Society will, this coming Sunday 6 May, give its last Vespers service of the 2006-2007 season. Look for me doing the tenor recitative and duet (with baritone Ryan Villaverde)!
May 6, 2007 • 5:00 p.m.
Bach Vespers
Bach: Wir müssen durch viel Trübsal BWV 146
Eccard: Zu dieser österlichen […]
Back from ACDA in Miami
0 Comments Published by Jeff March 11th, 2007 in General, Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church, Past performancesWell, we’re back, tired (our flight left Miami at 6:00am EDT this morning, and that with the early switch to Daylight Savings Time - your tax dollars at work), and incredibly happy and relieved to see this project come to a close. Our performances at the 2007 National Convention of the American Choral Directors’ […]
Amahl and the Night Visitors at Palmer Episcopal Church
0 Comments Published by Jeff January 1st, 2007 in Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church, Past performancesCommissioned by NBC and written by Gian-Carlo Menotti, the one-act operetta Amahl and the Night Visitors is a Christmas classic - a staple of the season along with It’s a Wonderful Life and A Christmas Story. And for the first time in many, many years, it will be produced at Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church.
Set […]
The Holy Child - Palmer Episcopal choir’s newest CD
0 Comments Published by Jeff December 13th, 2006 in Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church, Past performancesThe Adult, Youth, and Children’s Choirs of Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church in Houston, Texas have released their newest compact disc: The Holy Child: Music for Advent and Christmas, and I have to say, it is the Palmer Music Department’s best CD to date.
Singing with Dave Brubeck: Houston Chamber Choir in concert
3 Comments Published by Jeff December 3rd, 2006 in Houston Chamber Choir, Past performances, PersonalAh, music. A magic beyond all we do here.
- Albus Dumbledore (Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone; J. K. Rowling)
Dave Brubeck is the last of the great jazz icons. Kenton, Getz, Davis, Gillespie, Coltrane…so many gone. And at 86 years of age, he plays as well as he ever has. Yesterday […]
Dave Brubeck is returning to Houston!
1 Comment Published by Jeff November 8th, 2006 in Houston Chamber Choir, Past performancesGiants still walk among us. And among the pantheon of the Great Ones of jazz music, Dave Brubeck stands tall. And for the first time in twenty-or-so years, and perhaps for the last time ever, he is returning to Houston.
Saturday 2 December at Temple Beth-Yeshurun, he and […]
Yom Kippur 5767/2006
0 Comments Published by Jeff October 13th, 2006 in Congregation Emanu-El, Past performancesWhat can I say? High Holy Days at Temple Emanu-El in Houston was sublime as always. We in the Professional Choir sang services on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, though my friends at more conservative congregations sang more than we did.
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