Public Concerts
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.
Duo for Oboe and Piano Jacques-Christian-Michel Widerkehr (1759-1823)
Allegro
Menuetto
Adagio sans lenteur
Allegro
Gail Perstein, oboe and Asta Vaicekonis, piano
Jesus soll mein erstes Wort (Jesus should be my first word) from Kantate 171 by J.S. Bach
Automne by Gabriel Faure
Il pleure dans mon coeur (It rains in my heart) by Claude Debussy
Il Neige (The snow) by Herman Bemberg
Paysage sentimental (Sentimental journey) by Claude Debussy
Beth Ann Bonnecroy, soprano, and Asta Vaicekonis, piano
Rhapsody for Oboe and Piano Mario Lombardo (1831-2012)
Gail Perstein, oboe and Asta Vaicekonis, piano
Three Irish Country Songs arr. by Rebecca Clarke
“I know my love”
“I know where I’m goin’”
“As I was goin’ to Ballynure”
Singe Seele, Gott zum Preise (Soul, sing praises to God) by G.F. Handel
Beth Ann Bonnecroy, soprano, and Asta Vaicekonis, piano
Ingrid Fredrickson (guest artist), violin
Sea Pictures, Op. 37 by Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
“Sea Slumber Song,” poem by Roden Noel
“In Haven (Capri), ” poem by Caroline Alice Elgar, the composer’s wife
“Sabbath Morning at Sea,” poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Where Corals Lie,” poem by Richard Garnett
“The Swimmer,” poem by Adam Lindsay Gordon
Kathryn Vinson, mezzo-soprano
Katie O’Rourke, piano
Variations and Fugue on St. Antoni Chorale for Two Oboes and Cor Anglais by Graham Powning (b. 1949 in Sydney, Australia)
Theme – andante
Var. I – l’istesso tempo
Var. II – presto
Var. III – lento
Var. IV – tempo di valse
Var. V – andante
Var. VI – vivo
Var VII – siciliana
Var. VIII – andante
Var. IX – allegro
Var. X – andante
Fugue – andante
Coda – presto
Mini-Trio for 2 Oboes and Cor Anglais Allan Stephenson (b. 1949 near Liverpool, England, since 1973 living in Cape Town, South Africa)
I. Allegro vivo
II. Poco lento
III. Scherzo and Trio
Sharon Jung, oboe
Bernard Shapiro (guest performer), oboe
Gail Perstein, English horn
Recital TBA
Sharon Jung, oboe
Recital TBA
Karin McCullough, piano
Recital TBA
Lin Chen, soprano and TBA, piano
Wind Ensemble TBA
Rosemary Bell, oboe and Madeline Beery, flute