Save the Dates! A Preview of the Concerts! Monday, June 19 Friday – Sunday, June 23-25 Friday, June 30 Saturday – Sunday July 1-2 Concerts begin at 7:30 PMDoors open at 7:00 PM Cathedral Basilica on the Plaza de la Constitucion
MONDAY, JUNE 19, 2023, 7:30PMJUNETEENTH RECOGNITION CONCERTThe Ritz Chamber Players andspecial guest Ann Marie McPhail, SopranoO Freedom – Traditional Arrangement (acappella) No Mo’ Auction Block for Me – Traditional arrangement Lift Every Voice and SingSAMUEL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR – 5 Fantasiestücke for String Quartet Op. 5 Po Mo’ner Found a Home at Last – arr by Hall Johnson Froggie Went a Courtin’John Henry – trad. arr.COLERIDGE-TAYLOR PERKINSON –String Quartet No 1, “Calvary” Motherless Child/Swing Low, Sweet Chariot – arr. by Maria Thompson Corley Plenty Good Room – arr. by Maria Thompson Corley Ride Up in the Chariot – arr. by Stephen Andrew Taylor (after Betty Jackson King)
Ann Marie McPhail
FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 2023, 7:30PMSUMMER NIGHT MUSIC Featuring Yokino Miyake, Piano, and Ann Marie McPhail, Soprano Clara Schumann Prelude and Fugue in B-flat Major, Op. 16 No. 2 Ludwig van Beethoven Monlight Sonata Claude Debussy Nuit d’etoiles Claude Debussy Clair De Lune from Suite Begamasque (Songs) Mélanie Bonis. Près du ruisseau, Op. 9 Omphale, Op. 86 Sevillana, Op. 125 Frédéric Chopin: Nocturnes, Op. 9 No. 1 B-flat minor No. 2 E-flat major Franz Liszt: Ballade No. 2 in B minor, S. 171 Featuring the Mastriani Steinway piano, donated to the St. Augustine Music Festival
Yokino Miyake
SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 2023, 7:30PMFirst B “BACH” Baroque NightSAMUEL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR – 4 Novelletten for Strings, Op. 52 JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH – Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F major, BWV 1047 for solo Baroque Trumpet, Recorder, Oboe and Violin. Orchestra: strings, continui FELIX MENDELSSOHN– String Symphony No. 11, in F major/minor
Bach
SUNDAY, JUNE 25, 2023, 7:30PMSecond B “BRAHMS” – A NIGHT OF ROMANCERICHARD STRAUSS(arr. Franz Hasenöhrl) – Till Eulenspiegel, Einmal anders! ERNŐ DOHNÁNYI Sextet in C major. Op. 37 JOHANNES BRAHMS – Serenade nr. 1 in D, Op. 11 (nonet)
Brahms
FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 2023, 7:30PMDedicated to Cathedral BasilicaOrgan and Brass Quintet Concert Featuring Tim Tuller, Organist Eugene Gigout Grand Choeur Dialogue Organ & Brass Quintet Ewald Victor Brass Quintet No. 1 in Bb minor, Op. 5 (c.1890, rev.1912) George Thalben-Ball Elegy Eugene Gigout Toccata Organ solo Alan Hovhannes The Prayer of Saint Gregory Organ & Trumpet (Kevin Karabell) Louis Vierne Symphonie No. 1 VI. Final Organ solo Eric Ewazen Colchester Fantasy Modest Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition X. The Great Gate of Kiev Organ and Brass Quintet
Tim Tuller
SATURDAY, JULY 1, 2023, 7:30PMMUSICAL METAMORPHOSISOSVALDO GOLIJOV – “Tenebrae” RICHARD STRAUSS – arr. Rudolf Leopold Metamorphosen (septet version) JOHN ADAMS – Shaker Loops – JACK Quartet 3
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SUNDAY, JULY 2, 2023, 7:30PMTHIRD B “BEETHOVEN”“A NIGHT WITH NIGEL”Featured Artist: Nigel Armstrong, ViolinLUDWIG VON BEETHOVEN – arr. Rechtman Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61 for nonet & solo violin JOSEPH HAYDN – Symphony o. 47 in G major “The Palindrome”
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This year, there are two categories of reserved seating: · Those making donations of $1,000 or more – and concert our sponsors – will be seated in the Prime reserved section, in the very first rows. · A donation of $350 or more entitles the donor to sit in the regular reserved seating area · General seating is available to everyone attending our FREE concerts. We do recommend that you go to the website and reserve tickets for guaranteed seating, especially for popular concerts. Click on the link below to reserve.