Time for "An Autumn Potpourri of Music" next Saturday
Time for “An Autumn Potpourri of Music” Next Saturday
As a member of the Del Rio Music Club, I am devoting my column to that organization’s newest adventure into public music presentation – “An Autumn Potpourri of Music” 2:00 p.m. Saturday, October 15, at St. James Episcopal Church.
This grew out of preparations for the Texas Federation of Music Clubs District VIII meeting scheduled earlier that day. While visiting with the Reverend Doug Hutchings, we learned about his vision for St. James to be a center for music and decided to open the musical portion of the meeting to the public. Voila! “An Autumn Potpourri of Music” was born.
Good idea, right? But who would perform? After brainstorming a bit and making a few phone calls, I believe we’ve put together an entertaining little mess of music.
(For some reason I have always associated “potpourri” with “mess of pottage.” Actually, a “potpourri” is just “a collection of different sorts of things.” And if you ignore the biblical definition of “mess of pottage” and break down the phrase into its components, you will see that “mess” can actually mean “dining” and “pottage” is just a “stew.” Well, then our potpourri of music means we’ll be having a lovely little buffet of different sorts of musical genre – an entertaining little mess of music.)
The DRMC’s own Annelies Castro-Rios has agreed to treat us with “La Paloma” on her Paraguayan folk harp. Former school strings instructor Dwight Brown will bring out his violin to play the “1st Movement from Bach’s 2nd Concerto for Unaccompanied Violin.” Both Castro-Rios and Brown will join violinist Carole Cooper in creating an ensemble of piano and two violins to play Haydn’s “Minueto” from “Violin and Piano Sonata V” as well as “The Mimic” by Adam Carse. I hear they are having way too much fun rehearsing for this…
With all of that instrumentation, we needed to add a vocal number or two. So….I agreed to sing. I’ll be singing “In the Garden” accompanied by Jan Pressgrove on CD. Just for fun and because I love singing it, I will also do “Sam, You Made the Pants Too Long.” Now those two are as different as steak and ice cream in our “mess of music.”
At the time I’m writing this, plans have not been firmed up for two other performers but they’re looking good. I know Stefani Steelman, a young Laughlin AFB wife, will play one of her tried and true piano masterpieces for us – just not sure which one yet.
The other performer is well known to us. We’re hoping and praying that High School choir director and two-time DRMC scholarship winner Josue Gonzalez will regale us with those fine operatic vocal tones that have thrilled us in the past. (Seeing this in print should nudge him onto the program, don’t you think?)
Have I sufficiently whetted your appetite for “An Autumn Potpourri of Music?” Then bring your friends and family to St. James Episcopal Church next Saturday (Oct. 15) at 2:00. You’ll leave filled up with wondrously beautiful music. You might even decide to join the Del Rio Music Club!
Website of the Week: http://tfmc.littletrey.com/Texas_Federation_of_Music_Clubs/About_TFMC.html– This is the website for the Texas Federation of Music Clubs. For more information about the National Federation of Music Clubs, go tohttp://nfmc-music.org/cms/ -- they have the whole scoop on music clubs and what they do.
(This "librarywillie has information..." article was first published in the Del Rio News Herald on 9 October 2011.)
As a member of the Del Rio Music Club, I am devoting my column to that organization’s newest adventure into public music presentation – “An Autumn Potpourri of Music” 2:00 p.m. Saturday, October 15, at St. James Episcopal Church.
This grew out of preparations for the Texas Federation of Music Clubs District VIII meeting scheduled earlier that day. While visiting with the Reverend Doug Hutchings, we learned about his vision for St. James to be a center for music and decided to open the musical portion of the meeting to the public. Voila! “An Autumn Potpourri of Music” was born.
Good idea, right? But who would perform? After brainstorming a bit and making a few phone calls, I believe we’ve put together an entertaining little mess of music.
(For some reason I have always associated “potpourri” with “mess of pottage.” Actually, a “potpourri” is just “a collection of different sorts of things.” And if you ignore the biblical definition of “mess of pottage” and break down the phrase into its components, you will see that “mess” can actually mean “dining” and “pottage” is just a “stew.” Well, then our potpourri of music means we’ll be having a lovely little buffet of different sorts of musical genre – an entertaining little mess of music.)
The DRMC’s own Annelies Castro-Rios has agreed to treat us with “La Paloma” on her Paraguayan folk harp. Former school strings instructor Dwight Brown will bring out his violin to play the “1st Movement from Bach’s 2nd Concerto for Unaccompanied Violin.” Both Castro-Rios and Brown will join violinist Carole Cooper in creating an ensemble of piano and two violins to play Haydn’s “Minueto” from “Violin and Piano Sonata V” as well as “The Mimic” by Adam Carse. I hear they are having way too much fun rehearsing for this…
With all of that instrumentation, we needed to add a vocal number or two. So….I agreed to sing. I’ll be singing “In the Garden” accompanied by Jan Pressgrove on CD. Just for fun and because I love singing it, I will also do “Sam, You Made the Pants Too Long.” Now those two are as different as steak and ice cream in our “mess of music.”
At the time I’m writing this, plans have not been firmed up for two other performers but they’re looking good. I know Stefani Steelman, a young Laughlin AFB wife, will play one of her tried and true piano masterpieces for us – just not sure which one yet.
The other performer is well known to us. We’re hoping and praying that High School choir director and two-time DRMC scholarship winner Josue Gonzalez will regale us with those fine operatic vocal tones that have thrilled us in the past. (Seeing this in print should nudge him onto the program, don’t you think?)
Have I sufficiently whetted your appetite for “An Autumn Potpourri of Music?” Then bring your friends and family to St. James Episcopal Church next Saturday (Oct. 15) at 2:00. You’ll leave filled up with wondrously beautiful music. You might even decide to join the Del Rio Music Club!
Website of the Week: http://tfmc.littletrey.com/Texas_Federation_of_Music_Clubs/About_TFMC.html– This is the website for the Texas Federation of Music Clubs. For more information about the National Federation of Music Clubs, go tohttp://nfmc-music.org/cms/ -- they have the whole scoop on music clubs and what they do.
(This "librarywillie has information..." article was first published in the Del Rio News Herald on 9 October 2011.)
Posted by librarywillie at 9 Oct 2011 
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