Music Guild 2007–2008 Season
with The St. Matthew's Chamber Orchestra, Guest Artists & Ensembles
We are proud to announce the 2007 - 2008 season. We have a wonderful series of programs for you by the St. Matthew's Chamber Orchestra and also two fabulous guest ensembles. Please note that we have included some excerpts from SMCO and also Ensemble Caprice performances in the program listings below. Enjoy!
2008 - 2009 Season Planning underway. Here's what we can share with you thus far...
We are pleased to announce that the Music Guild has commissioned a new work for voices and chamber ensemble from composer Tarik O'Regan for the 2008 - 2009 Season. This commission has been made possible through a generous gift by Music Guild subscriber Patricia Oppenheim and will be presented in May or June, and at the 2009 Los Angeles Conference of the Association of Anglican Musicans. Other highlights of the 2008 - 2009 season will be the return of Ensemble Caprice in April, a performance of Handel's "Messiah" in December and much more. Check back for further details!
October 19, 8:00 pm
Gala Opening Concert and Patron Supper
Falcone: "Bells" (Music Guild Commission)
Click here to listen to an excerpt from the Chamber Orchestra's world premiere performance of "Bells"
Barber: Violin Concerto – Yi-Huan Zhao, violin
(Philip Vaiman, previously announced as soloist, has had to withdraw due to medical reasons)
Beethoven: Symphony No. 8
Click here to listen to an excerpt from a SMCO performance of Beethoven's 7th Symphony
Yi-Huan Zhao |
November 9, 8:00 pm
Ensemble Caprice - Les septs Sauts
Music from the Baroque Court of Stuttgart
The award-winning Montreal-based Ensemble Caprice – which took the
2003 Boston Early Music Festival by storm – with the world’s
foremost recorder and traverso soloist, Matthias Maute, in music of Couperin,
Vivaldi, Daquin and others. Recorder playing like you have never heard...
Click here to listen to an excerpt of a Mattias Maute/Ensemble Caprice performance
 Ensemble Caprice |
December 14, 8:00 pm
Music for the season by J.S. Bach
Cantata 140 - Sleepers, wake!
Cantata 10 - My soul doth magnify the Lord
Brandenburg Concerto No. 4
Click here to listen to an excerpt of a SMCO performance of the Brandenburg No. 5
Violin Concerto in E Major – Yi-Huan Zhao, violin
The St. Matthew's Chamber Orchestra and Choir of St. Matthew's Parish, Pacific Palisades
 Choir of St. Matthew's Parish |
January 18, 8:00 pm
Debussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun (arr. Schoenberg)
Barber: Knoxville: Summer of 1915 – Rachelle Fox, soprano
Vaughan Williams: Five Variants of ‘Dives and Lazarus’
Milburn: World Premiere of a Music Guild Commissioned Work for Clarinet
and Orchestra – Patricia Massey, clarinet
 Patricia Massey |
 Dwayne Milburn |
February 15, 8:00 pm
Members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic String Section
with Guest Artist Ariana Ghez, Oboe
Program to include...
Brahms: Sextet in B-flat Major
Harbison: Snow Country
 Ariana Ghez |
 Dan Rothmuller |
 Mitch Newman |
April 4, 8:00 pm
Vivaldi: Concertos and Sinfonias
Finzi: A Severn Rhapsody
Copland: Suite from ‘The Tender Land’ (arr. Sidlin) –
vocal soloists to be announced
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May 2, 8:00 pm
Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 3 in G Major - Kevin Kumar, violin
Britten: Simple Symphony for String Orchestra
Gershwin: Prelude No. 2 for Piano (Blue Lullaby) - arr. for chamber
orchestra by Dwayne S. Milburn, St. Matthew's Chamber Orchestra Composer
in Residence - Robin Guyett-Neenan, cello
Dvorak: Serenade in D minor for Winds, cello and bass
 Kevin Kumar |
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June 6, 8:00 pm
Persichetti: The Hollow Men – David Searfoss, trumpet
Vaughan Williams: Flos Campi, – Marda Todd, viola
Handel: Jubilate and Te Deum for the Peace of Utrecht
 David Searfoss |
 Marda Todd |
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