6th Street and Maine Avenue, SW
Washington, D.C.
(Across from Arena Stage, where Maine Avenue turns into M Street SW.
Click HERE to see a map.)
Admission free, donations accepted.
(Across from Arena Stage, where Maine Avenue turns into M Street SW.
Click HERE to see a map.)
Admission free, donations accepted.
The Boxwood Recorder Trio (Jane Udelson, Mark McDowell and Bruce Crane)
Joyce Bouvier and Rosemarie Houghton, sopranos
Gwyn Jones and Heidi Schuller, flute
Harold Yaffe, clarinet
Nancy Sulfridge, basset horn
Tom Blackburn, cello
David Ehrlich, piano
Wachet Auf, from Cantata 140 by J.S. Bach (1685-1750) (arr. Z. Kocsis)
O COME ALL YE FAITHFUL by Traditional
Velvet Shoes by Randall Thompson (1896-1984)
Madrigal by Philippe Gaubert (1879-1941)
Duett (Song Without Words #18) by Felix Mendelssohn (1809-47)
Konzertstuck #1 in A flat, op. 113 by Mendelssohn
HARK THE HERALD ANGELS SING by Mendelssohn
Magnificat on the Fifth Tone (1542) by Georg Forster (ca. 1515-60)
INTERMISSION
Cantique de Jean Racine by Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
IN THE DEEP MIDWINTER by Christina Rossetti/Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
Ave Maria by Luigi Luzzi (1828-76)
Serenade (Ständchen) by Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Agnus Dei by Georges Bizet (1838-75)
O LITTLE TOWN OF BETHLEHEM by Phillips Brooks/Lewis Redner
Adagio from Clarinet Concerto, K. 626 by W.A. Mozart (1756-91)
O HOLY NIGHT by Adolphe Adam (1803-56)
While we do put the weight on Christmas as we select music for tonight’s program, we are of course not unaware that Christmas is but one manifestation of the ways in which we twenty-first century Americans approach this joyful time of the year. Whether our orientation is Christian or not, we must recognize that Jesus Christ was a Jew, and that many of the principles underlying Islam are spiritually similar to Christianity. Moreover, at this time of year, we ought not ignore there’s so much more to the meaning of the seasonal celebrations we enjoy than the feckless commercial aspects of life that have forced themselves far too much into our everyday consciousness.
Christmas carols are only one of the ways of expressing the joy that we all find being alive for yet one more year in our beautiful city, in our wonderful country, and in the company of each other. May we all draw pleasure from the know-ledge that we are who we are and doing exactly what we are doing as we have been doing for all the years of our lives!
Or, as Tiny Tim used to say, "Merry Christmas and God bless us every one!"
The Southwest Chamber Players is a loose aggregation of more than 100 dedicated amateur musicians who have performed at Saint Augustine’s Episcopal Church in Southwest Washington, D.C., for the last ten years.
Formed in March 1997, we present concerts of fine chamber music each month since. Including every one of the orchestra’s instruments as well as singers of every voice range, our repertoire extends from Bach and Telemann through Prokofiev and Barber, with heavy emphasis on the works of the great composers of the classical and romantic eras.
David Ehrlich, the director, learned the piano at the age of six from his father, Richard Ehrlich. Though his life’s work was in the retail business, he never lost touch with performing music as both pianist and singer. Today he hones his skills annually at chamber music workshops in Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Spartanburg, South Carolina; and Lyndonville, Vermont.
The website lists a fair sampling of past concert programs as well as biographies of many of the performers.
No required dollars change hands. Admission to concerts is free, though we do gratefully accept donations to offset the minor expenses of publicity and post-concert receptions. None of the performers is paid. SWCP attracts much of its audience from the Southwest community, and maintains a mailing list of several hundred. Publicity is through this website, e-mail announcements, and postcards mailed for each performance.
For more information,or to add your address to our postal mailing list, email David Ehrlich at david@southwestchamberplayers.org or call him at (202) 484-6354.
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