Music Guild 2008–2009 Season
with The St. Matthew's Chamber Orchestra, Guest Artists & Ensembles
All concerts Fridays at 8:00 pm
October 17, 8:00 pm
Brahms: Variations on a Theme of Haydn
Wagner: Wesendonk Lieder
Angel: Concerto for Oboe d’amore and Orchestra (World Premiere)
Wright: Concerto for Bass Trombone, Tuba and Chamber
Orchestra (World Premiere)
- Rose Beattie, mezzo soprano
- Phil Feather, Oboe d’amore
- Richard Bullock, bass trombone
- John van Houten, tuba
The World Premieres of two new Music Guild Commissions will kick off the 2008-2009 season in a big way. Also featured will be the beautiful set of variations composed by Brahms on a theme of Haydn and the exquisite set of songs written by Wagner during the composition of Die Walküre on poems by Mathilde Wesendonck
 Rose Beattie |
 Phil Feather |
November 14, 8:00 pm
Sibelius: The Swan of Tuonela (arr. for chamber orchestra)
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor
Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
Wirén: Serenade for Strings
- Yi-Huan Zhao, violin
Mendelssohn’s masterpiece, the Violin Concerto in E minor, will be performed by our concertmaster Yi-Huan Zhao. Also featured on the program will be Dag Wiren’s lush Serenade for Strings, Wagner’s famous birthday present for his second wife, Cosima, and an arrangement for chamber orchestra of Sibelius’s transcendent Swan of Tuonela.
 Yi-Huan Zhao |
December 5, 8:00 pm
Handel: Messiah (Part One)
Hindemith: Suite of French Dances
Boyce: Symphony in D
A holiday classic, Part One of Handel’s magnificent oratorio, Messiah, will be heard with a delightful set of French dances by German émigré composer Paul Hindemith and a symphony by master of the English Baroque period – William Boyce.
 Choir of St. Matthew's Parish |
January 30, 8:00 pm
Chatham Baroque with Guest Artists Barry Bauguess, baroque trumpet, and Webb Wiggins, organ - Bohemian Rhapsody: “Scaramouche, will you do the fandango?” An eclectic program of Eastern European enticements from Poland, Moravia, Silesia and elsewhere, featuring Barry Bauguess, one of North America’s premiere trumpeters, and organist Webb Wiggins. Concert generously underwritten by the Edwin W. Pauley Foundation.
 Chatham Baroque |
 Barry Bauguess |
February 27, 8:00 pm
Mahler: Symphony No. 4 (arr. for chamber ensemble by Edwin Stein)
Broughton: Saloon Music for B-flat Cornet and Pit Orchestra
- Rachelle Fox, soprano
- David Washburn, trumpet
One of the most significant and successful arrangements for chamber ensemble
to come out of the Society for Private Musical Performance in Vienna
at the beginning of the 20th century, Edwin Stein’s arrangement
of the Fourth Symphony by Gustav Mahler magnificently captures the mood
of the original, with its emphasis on transparency of texture and lightness.
Rachelle Fox will be the featured soprano. Bruce Broughton’s Saloon
Music for B-flat Cornet and Pit Orchestra will serve as a lively and fun curtain-raiser
to the concert.
 Rachelle (Shelly) Fox |
 Bruce Broughton |
March 27 , 8:00 pm
Walton: Façade
Plus music by Frank Campo and Jeremy Cavaterra featuring members of The Chamber Orchestra at St. Matthew's plus guest artists Dale Hikawa Silverman and David Young
- Kimberlea Daggy, reciter
KUSC-FM Host, Kimberlea Daggy, will be on hand to recite the hilarious poems by British author Edith Sitwell to William Walton’s spikey and equally hilarious score for chamber ensemble. The program will also music by two Los Angeles composers, Frank Campo and Jeremy Cavaterra
 Kimberlea Daggy |
April 24 , 8:00 pm
Ensemble Caprice with guest artists David Jacques, baroque guitar, and percussionist Rex Benincasa – “La Folia and the Gypsies.” Ensemble Caprice returns to St. Matthew’s for a unique program featuring pieces taken from Slovakia and Rumania and works by composers who were influenced by the gypsy music they heard while traveling throughout Europe. Music by Vivaldi, Telemann and other Baroque masters paired with folk music from Central Europe.
 Ensemble Caprice |
June 5, 8:00 pm
O’Regan: Commissioned work to be announced
Reich: Proverb
Music of Morton Lauridsen and Arvo Pärt
The World Premiere of a new work by Tarik O’Regan commissioned by St. Matthew’s Music Guild is paired with the haunting Proverb by Steve Reich for two sopranos, two tenors, synthesizers and percussion. Masterworks by Morton Lauridsen and Arvo Pärt will round out the program, sung by the Choir of St. Matthew's Parish.
 Steve Reich |
 Tarik O’Regan |
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