GUEST ARTISTS WILL UNITE TO SUPPORT CHORALE.Byline: Daily News VALENCIA -- Seven guest artists will unite on one stage Oct. 15 for a benefit performance to support the Master Chorale's upcoming season during the second annual ``Friends of the Santa Clarita Master Chorale'' performance. Caroline McKenzie will return this year to sing pieces ranging from art songs to jazz and spirituals. Having studied voice at Princeton, she made her operatic debut in 1989 playing Anna in Verdi's ``Nabucc'' in New York. McKenzie has been a frequent soloist for the chorale chorale (kōrăl`, –räl`), any of the traditional hymns of the German Protestant Church. The form was developed after the Reformation to replace the plainsong of the earlier service and as a means of congregational participation in , most recently in March with her performance in Mozart's ``Mass in C Minor.'' The program also will feature soprano Desiree Hassler, a former chorale member now completing her doctorate in music. Hassler recently completed the leading role in Verdi's ``La Traviata'' at the University of Illinois University of Illinois may refer to:
Hassler was a finalist in the 2005 Metropolitan Opera Auditions and winner of the Voice Division of the 2004 Internal Franz Liszt Competition. Hassler will sing ``Sempre Libera'' from ``La Traviata'' and ``Marietta's Lied'' from Korngold's ``Die tote Stadt Die tote Stadt (German for The Dead City) is an opera in Three Acts by Erich Wolfgang Korngold. The libretto is by Paul Schott (a pseudonym of the composer’s father Julius Korngold) and Erich Wolfgang Korngold, based on Bruges-la-Morte .'' She and McKenzie will also perform a duet together. Also scheduled to appear is pianist Jan Sanborn, a composer and arranger. Sanborn will play her own arrangements of ``Embraceable You'' by George Gershwin and ``You Make Me Feel So Young'' by Mack Gordon and Josef Myrow. Allan Petker, artistic director of the chorale, will join Sanborn on viola for an improvisation of ``Moon River.'' Steven Applegate is co-producing the concert along with chorale Chairman Sherry Klahs. Applegate is former musical director of the ``Rocky Horror Show'' in San Francisco, and has directed musicals in almost every theater in Los Angeles, ranging from the Dorothy Chandler to the Schubert Theater. Valencia violinist David Ewart also will perform. Ewart has performed as concertmaster con·cert·mas·ter n. The first violinist in a symphony orchestra. of the Portland Chamber Orchestra, the Tucson Symphony and the Florida Symphony and frequently plays with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. Ewart will play a nocturne nocturne (nŏk`tûrn) [Fr.,=night piece], in music, romantic instrumental piece, free in form and usually reflective or languid in character. John Field wrote the first nocturnes, influencing Chopin in the writing of his 19 nocturnes for piano. by Chopin and an arrangement of ``Stars and Stripes Stars and Stripes nickname for the U.S. flag. [Am. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 8567] See : America Forever'' by Santa Clarita resident Bruce Dukov. Pianist Ann Moore, the chorale's accompanist, will play Joseph Martin's ``On the Blue Ridge.'' Moore has been the accompanist for the chorale since 1998 and also is the pianist for Valencia United Methodist Church United Methodist Church, in the United States, religious body formed by the union in 1968 of the Evangelical United Brethren Church and the Methodist Church (see Methodism). . The performance is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. at Valencia United Methodist Church, 25718 McBean Parkway, Valencia. Tickets are $25 and a reception will follow the concert. Proceeds will benefit the chorale. Tickets are available at The Cobblestone Cottage, 24335 Magic Mountain Parkway, Valencia; Cookbooks Plus, 24339 San Fernando Road San Fernando Road is a major street in the city and county of Los Angeles. It starts off in Castaic as The Old Road, passing through Santa Clarita and the Newhall Pass, where upon its intersection with Sierra Highway near the junction of the Golden State (I-5) and the , Newhall; and Rooms and Blooms, 24264 Valencia Blvd., Valencia. Order forms are also available on the chorale's Web site, www.scmasterchorale.org. For information, call (661) 254-8886. |
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