Chamber Series Opener October 11, 12, and 13!

Oct 11, 2024

Three dates to choose from for the South Coast Chamber Music Series season opener! 

 

SING TO ME

Featuring Philip Lima, baritone

 

Special Performance: Friday, October 11, 7 PM, New Bedford Whaling Museum

On October 11, join us in the Harbor View Gallery and stay for an after-concert reception to mingle with guests and musicians while enjoying hors d’oeuvres and spirits. 

October 12, 3 PM, St. Gabriel’s Episcopal Church, Marion

October 13, 3 PM, St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, South Dartmouth

 

Lustrous baritone Philip Lima joins NBSO core musicians in an eclectic potpourri ranging from Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Songs of Travel and Samuel Barber’s Dover Beach to the earthy songs of Charles Ives and three spirituals. A piano quartet by Portuguese master Joly Braga Santos and The Toreador’s Prayer by Joaquín Turina offer interludes of instrumental poetry and brilliance.

Program:

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Selections from Songs of Travel (arr. John Greer)
The Vagabond
Youth and Love
Whither Must I Wander?
Bright is the Ring of Words
I have Trod the Upward and the Downward Slope

Samuel Barber: Dover Beach, Op. 3

Charles Ives: Songs
The Children’s Hour
Tom Sails Away
The Circus Band

Three Spirituals
Wade in the Water (arr. Anthony Green)
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (arr. H. T. Burleigh/Green)
Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho (arr. Cynthia Jackson/Green)

Joly Braga Santos: Piano Quartet in D Major, Op. 26

Joaquín Turina: The Toreador’s Prayer, Op. 34

Musicians:
Philip Lima, baritone
Jesse Holstein, violin
EmmaLee Holmes-Hicks, violin
Anna Griffis, viola
Leo Eguchi, cello
Janice Weber, piano
 
Tickets just $25, must be purchased in advance: Choose your date and purchase tickets here.
 

Many thanks to Patty Plum Wylde, whose generous Gift of Music has made this concert possible. She dedicates her gift to all teachers of music for their devotion to the art of making music eternal.