Red Priest
November 8, 2014
Edgerton Performing Arts Center
Funded in part by the
William & Joyce Wartmann
Endowment for the Performing Arts
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Red Priest:
Red Priest is the only early music group in the world to have been compared by
the press to the Rolling Stones, Jackson Pollock, the Marx Brothers, Spike Jones,
and the Cirque du Soleil. “Rock-chamber concert approach to early music.”
Red Priest will “rock” the stage performing early music works from great
composers such as Bach and Vivaldi. Red Priest have redefined the art of period
performance, creating a virtual orchestra through their creative arrangements and
performance from memory with swashbuckling virtuosity, heart-on-sleeve
emotion and compelling stagecraft.
This extraordinary acoustic foursome has been described by music critics
as ‘visionary and heretical’, ‘outrageous yet compulsive’, ‘wholly irreverent and
highly enlightened’, ‘completely wild and deeply imaginative’, with a ‘red-hot
wicked sense of humor’ and a ‘break-all-rules, rock-chamber concert approach to
early music’. Continued...
The W Epac (W artmann Endowment for the Performing Arts Center)
Board was established in 2003 by former Edgerton School District
Superintendent Dr. Norman L. Fjelstad to work in accordance with the
Wartmann Endowment to help the arts program in the Edgerton
Community grow in perpetuity. Board members are:
Jennifer Dail
Diane Everson
Ellen Knutson
Joan Montgomery
Lisa Teubert
Nancy Dickinson
Erin Gonzalez
Sandy Kotwitz
Dr. Dennis Pauli
Connie Tronnes
Cathe Engler
Amy Horn-Delzer
Tom Livick
Gary Smith
Paul M. Tropp
Striving to provide a diverse selection of quality, affordable
entertainment to the Edgerton Community.
EPAC Production Personnel
WEpac Board Members
EPAC Coordinator: Paul M. Tropp
Sound Engineer: Mike Schuler
Lighting Engineer: Andrew Brackett
Technician: Josiah B. Tropp
Technician: Brady Kees
Ticket Manager: Donna Skau
Box Office Clerk: Sharon Wright
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Piers Adams – recorders
David Greenberg – violin
Angela East – cello
David Wright – harpsichord
Founded in 1997, and named after the flame-haired priest, Antonio
Vivaldi, Red Priest has given several hundred sell-out concerts in many of
the world’s most prestigious festivals, including the Hong Kong Arts
Festival, Moscow December Nights Festival, Schwetzingen Festival,
Prague Spring Festival, Ravinia Festival, Bermuda Festival, and in most
European countries, Japan, Australia, and throughout North and Central
America. The group has been the subject of hour-long TV profiles for
NHK (Japan) and ITV (UK)— the latter for the prestigious South Bank
Show, which documented the launch of the Red Hot Baroque Show, an
electrifying marriage of old music with the latest light and video
technology.
In 2008 Red Priest launched its own record label, Red Priest Recordings,
which is now the home for all of the recordings of the ensemble and its
members, and has attracted much attention in the music press worldwide.
Recent releases have included a swashbuckling collection entitled “Pirates
of the Baroque” and the group’s all-Bach blockbuster, “Johann, I'm Only
Dancing.” Their latest release is a tribute to another great Baroque master,
“Handel in the Wind.”
To keep informed about Red Priest’s concerts and recordings join the Red
Priest mailing list at www.redpriest.com—or visit our fan-page on
Facebook!
Thank you to the First Unitarian Society of Madison for use of their
Harpsichord for this evenings concert. Thank you to Trevor
Stephenson for his professional services in making the acquisition
possible and tuning the Harpsichord.
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Viva Baroque
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685-1750)
Preludio
GIOVANNI PAULO CIMA (c.1570-1622) / DARIO CASTELLO (c.1590
-c.1630)
Two Sonatas in “Stile Moderno”
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
“Bach on A”
Arioso – Bourrée – Sarabande – Gigue
GEORG FREDERICK HANDEL (1685-1759)
Recorder Sonata in B Minor
Largo – Vivace – Furioso – Adagio - Alla Breve
ANTONIO VIVALDI (1678-1741)
Concerto in F major: “L’Autunno” (Autumn, from The Four Seasons)
Allegro (Dancing Drunkards) - Adagio molto (Sleeping Drunkards) Allegro (Autumn Hunt)
INTERMISSION
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Concerto in F minor: “L’Inverno” (Winter, from The Four Seasons)
Allegro non molto (Bitter Frostbite and Winds) - Largo (Peaceful by the
Fire with Rain Outside) - Allegro (Ice Skating and Freezing Wind)
GEORG FREDERICK HANDEL
Aria in D major
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH/O’CAROLAN/DOW/TRAD (arr.
GREENBERG)
“Bach on G”
Prelude - Allegro - Poppy Leaf Hornpipe - The Princess Royal Hornpipe I
& II - Miss Charters' Reel
HENRY PURCELL (1659-1695) / MAURIZIO CAZZATI (1620-1677) /
DIEGO ORTIZ (fl 1580)A Suite of Grounds
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Toccata and Fugue in D minor
Red Priest appears by arrangement with Lisa Sapinkopf Artists,
www.chambermuse.com
All performances are funded in part by the
William & Joyce Wartmann
Endowment for the Performing Arts
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Piers Adams has been heralded in the Washington Post as “the
reigning recorder virtuoso in the world today.” He has performed in
numerous festivals and major concert halls throughout the world,
including London’s Royal Festival, Wigmore and Queen Elizabeth
Halls, and as concerto soloist with the Philharmonia, the Academy of
Ancient Music, the Singapore Symphony and the BBC Symphony.
Piers has made several solo CDs reflecting an eclectic taste, ranging
from his award-winning Vivaldi début disc to David Bedford’s
Recorder Concerto. Current collaborations include an eclectic new/
world music duo with pianist/composer Howard Moody, a baroque/
trance crossover with sound artist Larry Lush, and his “Wild Men of
the Baroque” duo with David Wright. The Chicago Tribune raved
about his recent performance as guest soloist with Chicago’s “Baroque
Band”: “Every note sounded fresh and crisp . . . played with force and
dazzle.”
David Greenberg taught himself folk fiddle tunes by ear as a young
child growing up in Maryland. In the mid 80s he studied Baroque
violin with Stanley Ritchie. Greenberg spent the 1990s with
Tafelmusik while developing a speciality in Scottish Baroque-folk
music, recording three groundbreaking CDs in this genre with the
group Puirt A Baroque. He immersed himself in Cape Breton
traditional music and co-authored the popular treatise on Cape Breton
fiddle music, the DunGreen Collection, with his wife, Kate Dunlay.
He lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Angela East is widely respected as one of the most brilliant and
dynamic performers in the period instrument world, praised in The
Times, London, for the “elemental power” of her cello playing. She
has given numerous concerto performances in London's Queen
Elizabeth and Wigmore Halls, and has performed as soloist and
continuo cellist with many of Europe's leading Baroque orchestras, as
well as with her own ensemble, the Revolutionary Drawing Room.
Among her impressive list of concert credits are La Scala, Milan,
Sydney Opera House, Versailles and Glyndebourne.
David Wright was an almost entirely self-taught musician before
gaining a scholarship to the Royal College of Music, where he won
several prizes, including the International Broadwood Competition,
and graduated with distinction. Since then he has worked with some of
the world’s leading musicians including Emma Kirkby, James
Bowman and Steven Varcoe, and as a soloist with many groups of
international renown. He has directed numerous concerts from the
harpsichord, including the first modern performance of Arne's The
Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green, and is guest conductor to several
European orchestras. He joined Red Priest in January 2011, since
which time his life has started to unravel.
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Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra—Edo de Waart, Music Director
Tuesday, November 18, 2014 at 7:30 PM. Tickets: $30/advance $35/door.
The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra has four purposes: to comfort,
educate, entertain and exhilarate the human soul.
The concert will feature conductor, Francesco Lecce-Chong and
Jeanyi Kim, violin. The evening’s program will include the Italian
composer Gioachino Rossini’s Overture to Semiramide, the well-traveled
Polish violin virtuoso and composer Henryk Wieniawski Concerto No. 2 in
D minor for Violin and Orchestra, Opus 22 and include Pyotr Il’yich
Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Opus 64.
Jeanyi Kim is the associate concertmaster (third
chair) of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and
the concertmaster of the Milwaukee Chamber
Orchestra. In 2007, she served as a guest assistant
concertmaster of the London Symphony Orchestra
under Sir Colin Davis and Valery Gergiev. As an
orchestral musician, the Toronto native has
performed in illustrious venues around the world,
including Carnegie Hall, the Barbican Centre,
Salle Plevel, and the Concertgebouw.
In addition to maintaining a private studio, she has served on the faculties at
the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, University of New Haven, and
Neighborhood Music School, to name a few. She holds a Doctor of
Musical Arts degree from Yale University, from which she also earned her
BA, MM, and MMA degrees.
Francesco Lecce-Chong, currently associate
conductor of the Milwaukee Symphony
Orchestra, has worked with the Atlanta,
Indianapolis, and St. Louis symphony orchestras,
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and the Hong
Kong, Pitesti (Romania), and Ruse (Bulgaria)
philharmonics. Equally at ease in the opera house,
Mr. Lecce-Chong has served as principal
conductor for the Brooklyn Repertory Opera and
as staff conductor for the Santa Fe Opera.
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Francesco Lecce-Chong continued…. He has earned national
distinction, including the Solti Foundation Career Assistance Award and
The Presser Foundation Music Award. In summer 2014, he served as the
associate conductor at the Grand Tetons Music Festival and had guest
appearances with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Las Vegas
Philharmonic, and Breckenridge Music Festival.
He is a graduate of the Mannes College of Music, where he received his
Bachelor of Music degree with honors in piano and orchestral
conducting. Mr. Lecce-Chong also holds a diploma from the Curtis
Institute of Music.
The 2013.14 season is Edo de Waart’s fifth as
the sixth music director of the Milwaukee
Symphony Orchestra. He is also chief
conductor of the Royal Flemish Philharmonic,
artistic partner of the Saint Paul Chamber
Orchestra, and conductor laureate of the
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra.
Born in Holland, he studied oboe, piano, and conducting at the Music
Lyceum in Amsterdam performed as associate principal oboe of the
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. At the age of 23, he won the Dimitri
Mitropoulos Conducting Competition in New York which resulted in his
appointment as assistant conductor to Leonard Bernstein at the New York
Philharmonic. Returning to Holland, he was appointed assistant to
Bernard Haitink at the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. In 1967, the
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra appointed him guest conductor then
chief conductor and artistic director. Since then, Edo de Waart has also
been music director of the San Francisco Symphony and Minnesota
Orchestra, chief conductor and artistic director of the Sydney Symphony,
and chief conductor of De Nederlandse Opera.
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Home for the Holidays
Saturday, Dec. 13, 2014 at 7:30 PM. Tickets: $20/adv. $25/dr.
Ron Hawking knows how to deliver a performance that truly comes from
the heart. Singing holiday hits of Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole, Willie
Nelson and Elvis just to name a few. Ron has a special quality that allows
him to touch the hearts of his audience every time he walks on a stage.
Then, at any moment, he seamlessly steps in and out of any personality he
chooses to portray. Going well beyond simply creating an impersonation,
Ron has an uncanny ability to reinterpret a song and deliver it with the
same vocal charm and charisma that made the original song and artist so
beloved.
In 1998, Ron Hawking created, produced and starred in the smash hit show,
“His Way” A Tribute to Frank Sinatra. In 1999 he went on to produce and
star in the West Coast production of His Way at San Francisco’s Theatre
On The Square. The show also played in Las Vegas, as well as other major
cities, before returning to Chicago. In September of 1998, Hawking wrote
the music and lyrics for “Go Go Sammy Sosa” as a salute to the Chicago
Cubs superstar. In addition to major media coverage and airplay on national
radio and TV, the song made its Wrigley Field debut at the final home
game of the cubs 1998 season. Ron Hawking has performed at New York’s
Carnegie Hall with the 40 piece Philly Pops Orchestra under the direction
of pianist/conductor Peter Nero that celebrated singer Patti Page and her
50th Anniversary in show-business. Ron has also opened for such notables
as Carol Channing, Sheena Easton, Robert Klein, and The Temptations, just
to name a few. This past February the Chicago Music Awards honored
Ron Hawking with the 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Terry Barber, Countertenor Saturday, May 9, 2015 at 7:30 PM. Tickets:
$20/adv. $25/dr. An internationally acclaimed countertenor, Terry is
known for his extraordinary range, both vocally and stylistically. A past
member of the Grammy winning group Chanticleer, Terry has been a
soloist in the best venues around the world from the Metropolitan Opera to
Carnegie Hall to Moscow’s Svetlanov Hall. Terry has been a soloist on
recordings for every major record label with a variety of artists from
Madonna to the London Philharmonic.
With an extraordinary broad vocal range and natural fluency in a wide
range of musical styles, Terry is a performer in a class by himself. He’s
been featured on some of the world’s most storied stages, and has worked
with many of the music industry’s most prestigious songwriters,
composers and producers.
Tickets for all performances are available at the Edgerton Pharmacy,
Edgerton Piggly Wiggly, in Janesville at Knapton Musik Knotes and
Voigt Music Center, and by calling (608) 561-6093.
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*Please turn off cell phones and pagers. No food, gum or beverages in
the theatre, and no unauthorized video or photography. Thank You!
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Concert & Series Sponsors:
PRODUCER
William and Joyce Wartmann Endowment
for the Performing Arts Center
William J. Wartmann
Thomas & Joyce Eastman
Dr. Sandra K. Chilson
Edgerton Piggly Wiggly
Warren & Judith Kukla
BENEFACTOR
Anonymous
Walter Diedrick
DIRECTOR
Larry Beck & Kirsten Almo
Brent & Amy Delzer
Eric & Amy Richardson
ASSOCIATE
Ken & Jana Betts
Gary & Barb Beyer
Cathe Engler & Edgerton Children’s Center
Mr. & Mrs. Conrad Majorowicz
Steve & Susan Saunders
PATRON
Jean Austin
Don & Rose Bice
Don & Barb Brown
Helen Rae Clawson
Jim & Sherrie Cottrell
Robert & Barbara Duslak
Linda Lipinski
Jack & Joan Malin
Thomas & Sally McCoy
David & Jane Nelson
Don & Barb Nickerson
John & Jann Roethe
Erik & Dawn Samuelsen
Janet & Sheldon Schieldt
Gerald & Mary Ellen Sill
Gary & Julie Smith
Dale & Gayle Stettler
Jacqueline S. Webb
Special Thanks To:
William & Joyce Wartmann
Dr. Dennis Pauli
WEpac Board Members
Edgerton Pharmacy
Knapton Musik Knotes
Voigt Music Centers, Inc.
Piggly Wiggly
C&M Printing
The Edgerton Reporter
First Unitarian Society
Trevor Stephenson
Edgerton School District Board of Education and Staff
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Edgerton High School Drama Club
Presents
November 21st and 22nd at 7:00 pm
November 23rd at 2:00 pm
Edgerton Performing Arts Center
Students/Senior Citizens $5.00 Adults $8.00
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