The American Church in Paris

Wheaton College Men's Glee Club will provide music at the 11h00 service on Pentecost Sunday, 19 May.

They have delighted audiences in the US and abroad with a unique combination of Christian witness, musical vitality and esprit de corps. Celebrating its 100-year anniversary, the ensemble has toured widely throughout the United States, Europe, and Israel. National tours have taken the Men's Glee Club to the Mid-Atlantic and Eastern states, Florida and Ontario, Canada. In addition, they appear regularly in the Chicago area and on Wheaton's campus. The ensemble's repertoire includes anthems, hymn settings, spirituals and other sacred music as well as secular songs.

Mary Hopper, their director, is Professor of Choral Music and Director of Performance Studies at the Wheaton College Conservatory of Music. Her current responsibilities include conducting the Men's Glee Club and the Women's Chorale and teaching choral methods. Both of her choirs have appeared on ACDA conferences. The Women's Chorale has been invited to sing at two National Conferences (Salt Lake City and New York City) and four Central Division Conferences including a 2012 appearance in Fort Wayne. The Men's Glee Club appeared on an Illinois State Fall Conference under Dr. Hopper's leadership. She has toured both nationally and internationally with both choirs.

Sinfonietta Paris: the next generation of outstanding professionals

Join Sinfonietta Paris for this season-ending gala concert and cocktail! Conductor Michael Boone and the performing artists of SPCO will deliver a program of CPE Bach, Telemann, Strauss and Schoenberg. Rika Masato, finalist at the Paganini International Violin Competition in 2006, will serve as concert mistress and Emilie Rault will be featured as narrator in Telemann's story of Don Quixote. Click on the link below to purchase your tickets today.

Ticket prices: 20€ 1ère catégorie | 10€ générale | 5€ étudiant

The American Church in Paris - 65 Quai d'Orsay 75007 Paris

01 40 62 05 00

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Tickets will also be available onsite beginning one hour prior to the concert.

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Concert program

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach : Symphonie en sol majeur, Wq 173 (1741)

Georg Philipp Telemann : Burlesque Suite : Don Quixote (1761)

Richard Strauss : Sextuor from the opera Capriccio (1942)

entracte

Arnold Schoenberg : Verklärte Nacht « la Nuit transfigurée » (1899)

Michael Boone, conductor

Rika Masato, leader

Emilie Rault, narrator

A cocktail to support this new professional chamber orchestra will follow after the concert.

About this concert

Telemann's musical depiction of Cervantes, the prelude to Strauss's conversational opera and Schoenberg's emotional masterpiece share a connection to literarture and are preceded by a masterful early classical symphony by Johann Sebastien Bach's son Carl Philipp Emanuel. Arnold Schönberg's luminous «Verklärte Nacht», shaped around the form and content of the poem by Richard Dehmel, was the work that first brought him to the world's attention and concludes this concert by the artists of SPCO.

Sinfonietta Paris Chamber Orchestra

Dedicated to the next generation of professional orchestral performers, SPCO is a new chamber orchestra commited to the rediscovery of exceptional musical works from the past as well as significant works written by today's brightest composers. We hope that you will make plans to join us for this special evening!

Concert at Eglise St. Louis-en-l'Ile

Voices Choeur International and Shine (ACP Youth Choir), directed by Bonnie Woolley, give an outreach concert to benefit the ARAM (the Association Régional des Aveugles et Malvoyants de Paris et d'Ile de France).

Gershwin and Milhaud

America in the Roaring Twenties, the Jazz Age, honky-tonk pianos on street corners, Prohibition, speakeasies and bootleggers, F. Scott Fitzgerald and his Great Gatsby, the Cotton Club and other bars where Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington performed. This is where White and Black people's music came together, along with hints of folk and klezmer. This was the triumphant birth of truly American music, which would in turn influence the music of Europe.

Gershwin is the emblematic figure of this New York, with his “Rhapsody in Blue”. And the songs from Porgy and Bess, including the deeply moving “Summertime”, crossed every stylistic boundary: opera, jazz, blues, pop...

At the same time in France, Darius Milhaud thrilled to the dissonant and syncopated accents of this music, which he blended with unbridled gaiety and with tinges of sambas, habaneras and other Brazilian tangos.

L'Odyssée symphonique and Sabine Aubert, Pierre Lesaffre on the piano and, exceptionally, jazz singer Léa Litalien will carry you away to the land of the blue note.

C’est l’Amérique des années folles, celle du Jazz Age, des pianos bastringues dans les rues, de la Prohibition, des speakeasies et des bootleggers, de Scott FItzgerald et de Gatsby le Magnifique, du Cotton Club et autres bars où se produisent Louis Amstrong, Ella Fitzgerald et Duke Ellington. C’est là où la musique des Blancs rencontre celle des Noirs, mêlée aussi d’accents du folklore et de la musique Klezmer. C’est le triomphe d’une musique vraiment américaine qui va influencer en retour, celle de l’Europe.

Gershwin est la figure emblématique de ce New York là, avec sa Rhapsody in blue. Et les airs de Porgy and Bess, dont le bouleversant Summertime, n’ont pas connu la frontière des styles : lyrique, jazz, blues, pop...

Et en France, Darius Milhaud, dans ces années-là, vibre aussi aux accents dissonnants et syncopés de cette musique, qu’il mêle à la gaité débridée et aux couleurs  des sambas, habaneras et autres tangos brésiliens.

L’Odyssée symphonique et Sabine Aubert, Pierre Lesaffre au piano, et exceptionellement, une chanteuse de jazz au micro, Léa Litalien, vous emmènent au pays de la note bleue…

The Adult Choir of Christ the King Lutheran Church, Cary, North Carolina will provide music at the 11h00 service on Sunday, 16 June.

The group participates in liturgical worship, produces two full-length musical services a year, and mounts a fall fund-raising concert that includes both secular and sacred repertoire. They have also hosted several regional choral festivals at their church. The group is made up of retirees, students, and professionals from various fields including medicine, science, education, and the arts. For much of the group, this will be their fifth performing tour abroad.

Director Sally Molyneux holds a Doctorate in Musicology from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and has directed the choir for the past seventeen years. This will be the fifth choir tour she has led to Europe, but the first one to France and Spain. Their accompanist, Michael Harris, graduated from East Carolina University in Greenville with undergraduate and graduate degrees in piano performance and pedagogy. He has been at Christ the King Lutheran Church for eleven years and this tour marks his fourth international trip with the choir.