The annual Summer Music Festival at Good Shepherd Episcopal Church will begin Tuesday, June 6, with a concert titled “From London’s Royal College of Music.”
Giles Brightwell, organist and choirmaster at Houston’s St. Thomas Episcopal Church, will play selections with a British bent.
The festival, now in its 30th year, will feature an eclectic mix of music every Tuesday evening during the month of June at the church, 715 Kirkman St. All concerts will be at 7.30 p.m. Tickets are $10 at the door, and children under 12 are admitted free. A reception will follow each concert.
Other concerts in the series:
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June 13 — The Robert Sanders Trio.
l June 20 — “A Walk in the Natural World.”
l June 27 — “Harawi” and more.
For the first concert, Brightwell will play Sir William Harris’ “Flourish for an Occasion,” J.S. Bach’s brilliant “Piece d’Orgue,” and Charles Villiers Stanford’s noble Postlude in D Minor, as well as music by other composers with Royal College of Music connections.
Born in London in 1970, Brightwell has served as organist at the University of Cambridge and the University of Glasgow.
Under his direction, the Glasgow University Chapel Choir regularly broadcast on BBC radio and television and was invited to sing for Queen Elizabeth’s Golden Jubilee celebration.
On June 13, The Robert Sanders Trio (piano, bass and drums) will play a mix of standards, original tunes and jazz versions of spirituals. Sanders has been an arranger, composer, and performer for over half a century both in the United States and abroad.
He collaborated on an album with Freddie Cole; wrote songs for Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis for PBS’ “Jazz Here and Now”; and collaborated on music for “Lord of the Rings.”
The group’s drummer, Carl Lott III, has worked with Destiny’s Child, Beyonce, Prince, Rick James and Snoop Dog.
Composer Elena Ruehr will be at the June 20 concert, “A Walk in the Natural World,” to introduce her original music and answer questions. A small orchestra will play two of Ruehr’s works: an imaginative construction of a day in the life of Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis) as she walks the ancient savannah, and an evocative piece for flute and piano, “Of Water and Clouds.”
The concert will include three tangos by Astor Piazzolla, Mozart’s Kegelstatt Trio, and “Four Fables” by Karim Al-Zand, which invokes the sounds of grasshoppers, ants, owls and lions.
Performers include members of Houston’s Opera in the Heights Orchestra: Wendy Isaac Bergin, flute; Maiko Sasaki, clarinet; McKenna Jordan, violin; Faith Jones, viola; Scott Card, cello; and Yan Shen, piano.
The final concert on June 27 will feature soprano Julia Fox from Houston and Good Shepherd’s organist and music director, Patrick Parker.
They will play a piece often considered one of the greatest song cycles of the 20th century — “Harawi,” written by Olivier Messiaen in 1945. “Harawi” is part of the love song genre of Peruvian traditional music which often ends with the death of the two lovers.
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