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2012-13
CANDLELIGHT CONCERTS
Jazz and Classical Artists celebrate the yuletide season by candlelight
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Sunday, December 30 at 7:00 PM at University Christian Church in Seattle
JAZZIN' with the CLASSICS for CHRISTMAS by CANDLELIGHT
Linda Tsatsanis ~ soprano • Jeffrey Cohan ~ flute
Martin Lund~ flute, clarinet and piano • Gene Nery ~ guitar
The
third annual Candlelight Concerts presents four renowned classical and
jazz artists and friends who meld their musical perspectives in this
unique candlelight celebration of the Yuletide season. Tsatsanis, Lund,
Cohan and Nery team up to bridge contemporary improvisational jazz and
the art music of baroque and renaissance times. Instrumental musicians
have "jazzed up" melodies familiar to them in the style of their day
for centuries, and this team's virtuoso improvisations on Yuletide
favorites such as Silver Bells and What Child is This, and their
renditions of classical standards such as Bach's setting of In Dulci
Jubilo, the exquisite French carol
Un Jeune Fillette and the early 17th-century Canzonetta Spirituale
sopra alla nanna by Tarquino Merulo will bring together the best of all
things jazz and classical.
Dedicated to GEORGE SHANGROW, the third annual Candlelight Concerts continues a
tradition which George initiated with countless past Candlelight
Evenings of Baroque Music for the Yuletide season and beyond.
Chamber music both familiar and new is performed by some of the
Northwest’s prominent soloists.
Tsatsanis and Lund team up with Nery and Cohan to celebrate the Yuletide season!
Hailed as “ravishing” by the New York Times, Canadian soprano
LINDA TSATSANIS has appeared as soloist with the Seattle Baroque
Orchestra, Auburn Symphony, Pacific Musicworks, Orchestra
Seattle, Pacific Baroque Orchestra and for the Early Music
Society of the Islands (Victoria, BC), San Francisco Early Music
Society, and Magnolia Baroque Festival and many others. • MARTIN
LUND has played with some of the great blues artists of our time
and worked in the studios of LA as a composer, arranger and
musician with artists such as Mel Torme and Isacc Hayes. He is
equally adept at clarinet, saxophone, flute and piano and
directs The One World Music Festival on Orcas Island. • GENE
NERY has traveled the world performing as a vocalist and
guitarist for Princess Cruises. He settled down on Orcas in the
1980's but originally comes from Vancouver, BC. He earned a
platinum record award for singing "Above The Northern Lights" on
Mannheim Steamroller's CD "A Christmas Song" which also features
Johnny Mathis and Olivia Newton John. • Flutist JEFFREY
COHAN has performed as soloist in 25 countries, both on
modern and early transverse flutes from the Renaissance through
the present. He is artistic director of the Salish Sea Early
Music Festival and the Capitol Hill Chamber Music Festival in
Washington, DC.
University Christian
Church
4731 – 15th Avenue NE in
Seattle’s University District • (206) 522-0169.
Suggested Donation $25, $20 or $15 • Youth 18 and
under free
TICKETS (also available at the door): www.brownpapertickets.com/event/311163 (search for “candlelight”)
also:
Thursday, December 27 at 2:00 PM at Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Eastsound on Orcas Island • (360) 629-6110
Friday, December 28 at 7:00 PM at the Floyd Norgaard Cultural Center in Stanwood • (425) 629-6110
Saturday, December 29 at 7:00 PM at Trinity Lutheran Church in Freeland on Whidbey Island • (360) 331-5161
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updated December 24, 2012 ~