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Preludes and Postludes November 2018

Patagonia Fall Festival In October The Santa Cruz Foundation for the Performing Arts was a proud sponsor of the 30th Patagonia Fall Festival! The Concert Haul® was used for live music in the park all day and we enjoyed giving tours of the Benderly-Kendall Opera House to many new visitors.

To announce the season, Christina Wilhelm and Evan Kory were guests on the “We Love Nogales” Facebook Live show with Santos Yescas and Edgardo Muñoz. The hour-long program includes a video tour of the Opera House, a conversation about the history of SCFPA as well as announcements of the exciting concerts coming up this season. If anyone would like to see the show it is streaming on the “We Love Nogales” Facebook page and Youtube channel. The audio is also available as a podcast.

We Love Nogales – Facebook Live

New Green Room!

Over the summer, Ted Piper and his team worked very hard to complete the new addition to the Opera House. Fred and Christina Wilhelm donated furniture and artwork to decorate the space and it is now a beautiful room for musicians to rest and focus before concerts. In addition to supplying furnishings for the new space, Fred and Christina also donated a gorgeous folk harp for the Opera House. We are looking forward to hearing this unique instrument at one of our future concerts!

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Yuri Namkung & Evan Kory

On November 18 we began our 2nd season at the Benderly-Kendall Opera House with the wonderful violinist Yuri Namkung and pianist Evan Kory. The concert opened with a serene arrangement of Debussy’s The Girl with the Flaxen Hair for violin and piano. After this charming vignette the duo performed two contrasting Sonatas by Mozart—this was Mozart’s debut at the Benderly-Kendall Opera House, a first of many performances in the future, no doubt. Before playing Mozart, Evan and Yuri encouraged the audience to clap whenever it felt appropriate and brought to the audience’s attention a letter Mozart wrote to his father. In the letter, Mozart described how pleased he was that the audience clapped while the orchestra performed the first movement of a Symphony. For anyone who would like to read this interesting anecdote, it is dated Paris, July 3, 1778. Coincidentally, the letter was written just four months after the publishing date of the violin sonatas Yuri and Evan performed.

The Mozart ended with a haunting Minuet, which set the tone for the following piece on the program, Kreisler’s Liebeslied. The duo shared sheet music on the piano and treated us to a lovely rendition of the melancholy Viennese waltz. This lead to Brahms’ 2nd Sonata in A Major, the largest work on the program. Last season, Yuri and Evan performed the first Brahms Sonata, perhaps this means next year they’ll play the third to complete the trilogy. To close the concert the duo performed transcriptions of Gershwin by Jascha Heifetz, the first was the evocative aria from Porgy and Bess “Summertime” followed by the New York inspired first Prelude, bringing the concert to an energetic conclusion. *After Yuri’s performance at the Opera House, she took a redeye flight Sunday night to New York City to make it back in time for a performance at the United Nations Monday afternoon!

Holiday Art Walk

SCFPA participated in the Thanksgiving Holiday Art Walk this year by offering mini-concerts at the Opera House. On Friday the Vox Kino Quartet, Johanna Landis, Anne Quirin, Rick Waits, and Mark Berg performed Brahms’ Neue Liebeslieder Waltez with Christina Wilhelm and Evan Kory at the piano. Saturday afternoon the Santa Cruz Singers performed Paul McCartney’s Ecce Cor Meum and to conclude the weekend of festivities and initiate the holiday season the community gathered on Sunday to sing Handel’s Messiah in a fun kareoke rendition!

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Thank you to our Sustaining Members for joining the Friends of the Opera House fundraising initiative. Through your generous contributions we are able to offer a wide range of phenomenal concerts throughout the 2018-2019 concert season. On November 3rd, the newly formed Sky Islands Piano Trio gave a pre-season house recital featuring works by Brahms, Schubert, and Dvorak for our Sustaining Members. It was a lovely reminder of the wonderful house concerts that started SCFPA. We are very grateful for your support, if anyone is interested in supporting SCFPA by becoming a Friend of the Opera House please visit our website for more information: scfpapresents.org

2018 Friends of the Opera House

12/2 – Mishka Momen, pianist 12/9 – Joshua Guerrero, tenor & Christopher Allen, pianist 12/23 – 4pm Holiday Carol Sing (Opera House Steps) 12/31 – 5pm New Years Eve Concert with Danny Brito Latin Jazz Quartet 1/6 – Miguel Piva, Chris Dorsey, Daniell Cernotto: Guitar and Bandoneon Trio 1/20 – U of A Musicians on Tour 2/3 – Yasmin Alami & Evan Kory: Duo Pianos

2/17 – Cerulean Trio 3/3 – U of A Musicians on Tour 3/17 – Riviera Cello/Piano Duo 3/31 – Django Shredders 4/14 – William Feasley, classical guitar 4/28 – Amanda Zory, soprano & Walter Aparicio piano  

Please join us for our upcoming concerts at the Benderly-Kendall Opera House

For more information and reservations please visit our website: scfpapresents.org All concerts begin at 3:00pm, except for 12/23 and 12/31.

Mark Berg Jean Brothman Nancy Calhoun Sylvia Chamberlin Lane Coulston Gwyn Enright Charles Fears Gerry Isaac Tina Hamilton Jan Herron Betty Johnson Sarah Klingenstein Renate Kloppenger Phyllis Klosterman Horst Kniesel Evan Kory

Sandra Kory Kathleen Krause Eric Landis Annie Waits Mike Massee Inge Meyer Marion Ritchie Jim Schatz Kathryn Schrag Pat Watrous Jude Weierman Fred Wilhelm

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