Public Concerts and Events
Free Public Concert Series
LMC’s most visible face is its Public Concert Series that offers over 50 free classical music concerts from October through May by LMC member-musicians and guests. The classical music series is presented at a variety of venues throughout the Seattle metro area, including Seattle Art Museum, Frye Art Museum, Seattle Public Library, Central and West Seattle Branches, University House Wallingford, Mirabella, Bellevue’s Crossroads Community Center Theater and the Music Center of the Northwest in North Seattle.
These intimate, one-hour, music programs are free and open to the public. No advance tickets are required. On the day of the performance at the Frye Museum, attendees are asked to obtain a free ticket at the front desk to monitor auditorium seating.
Jota by Manuel de Falla
El tra la la y el punteado by Enrique Granados
Con amores, la mi madre by Fernando Obradors
Tus ojillos negros by Manuel de Falla
Come Ready and See Me by Richard Hundley
A Prayer to Saint Catherine by Virgil Thompson
V’molchani nochi by Sergei Rachmaninov
Ne poy krasavitsa by Sergei Rachmaninov
Susan Strick, soprano
Karin McCullough, piano
Sonatine by Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
- Modéré (moderate)
- Mouvement de menuet (Minuet tempo)
- Animé (animated)
From Pieces de Clavecin by Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
-L’Egyptienne ( The Egyptian)
-Le Rappel des Oiseaux (The gathering of the Birds)
-La Poule (The Hen)
Maria Khavin, piano
Six Pastiches by Cecilia McDowall (b. 1951)
Hornpipe
Romantic Song
Menuet
Comic Song
Waltz
Music Hall
Arioso for Oboe and Piano by Graham Waterhouse (b. 1992)
Pieces for oboe and piano by Rutland Boughton (1878-1960)
Sumerset Pastoral
The Passing of the Faery
American Folk Songs for English horn and piano by Arthur Frackenpohl (1924-2019)
He’s Gone Away
John Henry
Go ‘way from my Window
Mama Don’t ‘low
Gail Perstein, oboe and English horn; Nobuko Hasegawa, piano
An American in Paris—Gershwin and the French
Four songs by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin (1898-1937)
1. Love is here to stay (from Goldwyn Follies)
2. Slap that bass (from Shall We Dance)
3. I got rhythm (from Girl Crazy)
4. By Strauss (from The Show is on and in the 1951 movie An American in Paris)
An American in Paris
(Composed by George Gershwin, here in piano transcription by William Daly)
Pièce en Forme de Habanera by Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
C’est ainsi que tu es (It is thus that you are) by Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Bess, You is my Woman (duet from Porgy and Bess) by George Gershwin (1898-1937)
With guest artist Mike Dodaro, baritone
Diane Althaus, soprano
Mike Dodaro (guest artist), baritone
Abigail Habegger, piano
Mörike Lieder, selections by Hugo Wolf (1860-1903)
6. Er ist’s! (It is Spring)
7. Das verlassene Mägdlein (The Forsaken Maiden)
8. Begegnung (Encounter)
9. Nimmersatte Liebe (Insatiable Love)
12. Verborgenheit (Solitude)
16. Elfenlied (Song of the Elves)
19. Um Mitternacht (At Midnight)
23. Auf ein altes Bild (To an old Painting)
25. Schlafendes Jesuskind (Sleeping baby Jesus)
28. Gebet (Prayer)
29. An den Schlaf (To Sleep)
Janene Nelson, mezzo-soprano
Asta Vaicekonis, piano
Sonatine by Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
- Modéré (moderate)
- Mouvement de menuet (Minuet tempo)
- Animé (animated)
From Pieces de Clavecin by Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
-L’Egyptienne ( The Egyptian)
-Le Rappel des Oiseaux (The gathering of the Birds)
-La Poule (The Hen)
Maria Khavin, piano
“Allegro moderato” from Sonata K. 330, C Major by W.A. Mozart (1756-1791)
from Images, Book 1 by Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
-Reflets dans l’eau (“Reflections in the Water”)
-Hommage à Rameau (“Homage to Rameau”)
-Mouvement (“Movement”)
Emiko Hori, piano
Knoxville, Summer of 1915, Op. 24 by Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
Text based on a short prose piece by James Agee. It is a snapshot of life from the perspective of a small boy.
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Clarice Alfonso, soprano
Joan Lundquist, piano
Please note that seating is limited at the Frye Art Museum. It is still free but guests must have a ticket to enter. Patrons should plan to arrive 1/2 hour early. See below for details on how to get tickets or click here to MAKE A RESERVATION.
Partita No. 1 in B minor BWV 1002, by J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
II. Corrente – Double (Presto)
Violin Concerto No. 5 in A major, K219, by W.A. Mozart (1756-1791)
I. Allegro aperto – Adagio – Allegro aperto
Candice Chin, violin and Emiko Hori, piano
First movement, “Allegro moderato” from Sonata K. 330, C Major by W.A. Mozart
from Images, Book 1 by Claude Debussy
-Reflets dans l’eau (“Reflections in the Water”)
-Hommage à Rameau (“Homage to Rameau”)
-Mouvement (“Movement”)
Emiko Hori, piano
REGISTRATION
Tickets to this program are free of charge, and our seating capacity is limited. Free tickets, limit 2 per person, may be reserved in advance, up to two days before the program. The reserved tickets may be picked up on the day of the program at the desk in the foyer outside the auditorium. There is no late seating, so please arrive at least 15 minutes early. All unclaimed tickets (regardless of reservations) will be released to standby 10 minutes before the program!
Frye Members receive advance notice of programs and performances—become a member today and get the benefit of early registration!
TICKETING
On the day of the program, pre-registered and standby tickets may be picked up beginning one hour before the program at the desk in the foyer outside the auditorium. All unclaimed tickets (regardless of reservations) will be released to standby 10 minutes before the program.
Born in December of 1830, Emily Dickinson was an incredibly prolific and influential American poet. She wrote close to 1800 poems and yet, fewer than a dozen were written in her lifetime and those were heavily edited in order to fit the current sensibilities of society. The topics of many of her poems concerned death and immortality.
For more information about Emily Dickinson:
Wikipedia, Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson Poetry Foundation
Tonight’s Program
Settings by John Duke (1899-1984)
Good morning, Midnight
Heart! We will forget him!
Let down the bars, Oh Death
An awful tempest mashed the air
Nobody knows this little Rose
Bee! I’m expecting you!
Amber Rose Johnson, soprano and Lucy Wenger, piano
Settings by Craig Urquhart
It’s All I Have to Bring Today
On This Wondrous Sea
Settings by Lori Laitman
“The Butterfly upon” from One Bee and Revery
“Hope is a Strange Invention” from One Bee and Revery
“To Make A Prairie” from One Bee and Revery
Good Morning Midnight
Wider than the Sky
Clarice Alfonso, soprano and Lucy Wenger, piano
from Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson by Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
Why do they shut me out of heaven?
Heart, we will forget him
Dear March, come in!
When they come back
I felt a funeral in my brain
Going to heaven!
I’ve heard an organ talk sometimes
Lin Chen, soprano and Lucy Wenger, piano
Settings by Ricky Ian Gordan (b. 1956)
Too Few the Mornings Be
If All the Griefs I Am to Have
Bee! I’m Expecting You
I’m Nobody! Who are You?
Will There Really be a Morning?
Beth Ann Bonnecroy, soprano and Lucy Wenger, piano
Scene for the Principessa and Suor Angelica from Suor Angelica by Giacomo Puccini
Sister Angelica, a Florentine noblewoman, has been compelled by her family to take the veil, following the birth of her child out of wedlock, and for seven years has in vain been waiting to hear news from her friends and family. Finally, she receives a visit from her aunt, the dowager princess and the news is devastating.
Lori Williams, soprano as Suor Angelica
Dawn Padula, mezzo soprano as La zia Principessa
Joan Lundquist, piano
Duets by Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Weg der Liebe, Erster Teil (Love’s way, first part)
Weg der Liebe, Zweiter Teil (Love’s way, second part)
Duets by Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Herbstlied (Autumn Song)
An den Abendstern (To the Evening Star)
Ländliches Lied (Country Song)
Duets by Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Grüß (Greetings)
Herbstlied (Autumn Song)
Ich wollt’, meine Lieb’ (I want, my dear)
Susan Strick, soprano
Kathryn Vinson, mezzo-soprano
Joan Lundquist, piano
Dreamscape, Oboe and Piano version by Alyssa Morris (1984-)
-Falling Asleep and Chase
-What?
-Innuendo
-Nightmare and Awakening
Gail Perstein, oboe and Asta Vaicekonis, Piano
“From the Sublime to the Ridiculous: songs of love and more”
Cello Sonata by Dimitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
- Allegro non troppo
Erika and Annie - Allegro
- Largo
- Allegro
Erika Pierson, cello
Annie Center, piano
Songs by Ricky Ian Gordon (b. 1956)
Too Few the Mornings Be
Too Few the Mornings Be
If All the Griefs I Am to Have
Bee! I’m Expecting You
I’m Nobody! Who are You?
Will There Really be a Morning?
Songs by Hugo Wolf (1860 – 1903)
Heb’ auf dein blondes Haupt
Nun lass uns Frieden schliessen
Heut’ Nacht erhob ich mich
In den Schatten meiner Locken
“Endless pleasure, endless love” from Semele G.F. Handel (1685-1759)
Beth Ann Bonnecroy, soprano
Please note that seating is limited at the Frye Art Museum. It is still free but guests must have a ticket to enter. Patrons should plan to arrive 1/2 hour early. See below for details on how to get tickets or click here to MAKE A RESERVATION.
Pioner by Hugo Emil Alfvén (1872-1960)
Du är min Afrodite by Gunnar de Frumerie (1908-1987)
Pan by Ture Rangström (1884-1947)
Sköldmön by Ture Rangström
Till havs by Gustaf Nordqvist (1886-1949)
Svarta rosor by Jean Sibelius (1883-1959)
Amber Rose Johnson, soprano & Joan Lundquist, piano
Sonata in C Minor, Op. 45 for violin and piano by Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
I) Allegro molto ed appassionato
II) Allegretto espressivo alla Romanza
III) Allegro animato
Ann Rackl, violin
Selena Chu, piano
Sinikan laulu by Toivo Kuula (1883-1918)
Sinipiika
Purjein kuutamolla
Jääkukkia
Rakastunut by Yrjö Kilpinen (1892-1959)
Erotessa
Uurisraivaaja
Tiina Ritalahti, soprano & Joan Lunquist, piano
REGISTRATION
Tickets to this program are free of charge, and our seating capacity is limited. Free tickets, limit 2 per person, may be reserved in advance, up to two days before the program. The reserved tickets may be picked up on the day of the program at the desk in the foyer outside the auditorium. There is no late seating, so please arrive at least 15 minutes early. All unclaimed tickets (regardless of reservations) will be released to standby 10 minutes before the program!
Frye Members receive advance notice of programs and performances—become a member today and get the benefit of early registration!
TICKETING
On the day of the program, pre-registered and standby tickets may be picked up beginning one hour before the program at the desk in the foyer outside the auditorium. All unclaimed tickets (regardless of reservations) will be released to standby 10 minutes before the program.