3rd Sunday of Advent

Benton Methodist Church

4615 Palmetto Road

Benton, Louisiana

December 15, 2024, at 6:00 pm

A Christmas Cantata

Logan & Hannah Spataro (NSU alumae)

 

4th Sunday of Advent

First United Methodist Church

400 East 6th Street

Texarkana, AR

Larry Dymott, Music Director

December 22, 2024, at 10:30 am

Christmas Canticles: a Cantata of Carols in Four Suites .... Benjamin Harlan

Introit and Processional

Suite I: the Announcement

Suite II: the Promised Coming

Suite III: the Child in the Manger

Suite IV: the Light of Christ 

Advent Festival of Lessons & Carols

Trinity Episcopal Church

533 Second Street

Natchitoches, Louisiana

December 12, 2024, at 7:00 pm

 

The Lessons

 

Genesis 3:1-22 ... The First Sin and it's Punishment

 

Isaiah 40:1-11 ... God's People are Comforted 

Jeremiah 31:31-43 ... A New Covenant

Isaiah 35:1-10 ... The Return of the Redeemed to Zion

Baruch 4:36-5:9 ... Look Towards the East

Isaiah 7:10-15 ... Isaiah Gives Ahaz the Sign of Immanuel

Isaiah 11:1-9 ... The Peaceful Kingdom

Isaiah 65:17-25 ... The Glorious New Creation

Luke 1:26-56 ... The Birth of Jesus Foretold

 

Dr. Sam Stokes, organ, piano, choirmaster

Paul Christopher, cello

Patricia Brown, soprano

Dr. John Dunn, tenor

Dr. Tony Smith, bass

 

 

Yoga at the WRAC

December 9, 2024, at 5:30 pm

WRAC

Natchitoches, Louisiana

 

Providing music for a Brett Garfinkle's yoga class

 

 

A Jolly Holiday

Rapides Symphony Orchestra

Coughlin-Saunders Performing Art Center

Alexandria, Louisiana

December 8, 2024, at 2:30 pm

PROGRAM

Carnival Overture, Op. 92 ... Dvorak

Fantasia on Greensleeves ... Vaughn Williams

Hanukkah Festival Overture ... arr. Richman

Sinfonia Pastorella ... L. Mozart

    Movement 3

        William Rose, Alphorn

Thunder and Lightning Polka ... J. Strauss, Jr.

Sleigh Ride ... Anderson

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year ... Pola & Wyle

Jesu Bambino ... Yon, arr. Ryden

Santa Clause is Coming to Town .. Coots, arr. Farnon

White Christmas ... arr. Bennett

Holiday Pops Sing-Along ... arr. Cerulli

God Bless Us Everyone ... Silverstri & Ballard

9th Living Library: Everyone Has a Story

We've Got the Music

Ora G. Williams Electronic Media Center

Kyser Hall

Natchitoches, Louisiana

November 20, 2024, at 6:00 pm

Panelists included Drs. Douglas Bakenhus, Burt Allen, Anthony Pursell, Mr. Paul Christopher, and student Rikki Landry, and moderated by Donna Baker.

Click here to watch a recording of the event.

MUS 1500 Student Recital

Magale Recital Hall

Natchitoches, Louisiana

December 3, 2024, at 12:30 pm

PROGRAM includes:

Suite No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1008 ... JS Bach (1685-1750)

    Prelude

Maira Avellaneda Pabon, cello

Storytime at NPL

Natchitoches Public Library

450 Second Street

Natchitoches, Louisiana

November 26, 2024, at 10:30 am

Children's Librarian read aloud "Meow Cello" by Kristen Halverson while Paul Christopher played his cello for storytime.

Handel's Messiah

The Conclusion 

Dr. David Hobson, director

November 24, 2024, at 3:00 pm

Sanctuary of First Methodist Church

Shreveport, Louisiana

PROGRAM:

The Lord Gave the Word

How Beautiful are the Feet

Their Sound is Gone Out

Why Do the Nations So Furiously Rage Together?

Let Us Break Their Bonds Asunder

Thou Shall Beak Them

Hallelujah

I Know That My Redeemer Liveth

Since By Man Came Death

Behold, I Tell You a Mystery

The Trumpet Shall Sound

Then Shall Be Brought to Pass

O Death, Where is Thy Sting?

But Thanks Be to God

If God Be For Us

Worthy is the Lamb

NNSO Concerto Competition

Sunday, November 17, 2024, at 2:00 pm

Magale Recital Hall

Natchitoches, Louisiana

Auditionees included:

Maira Lizeth Avellaneda Pabon, cello .... Haydn Cello Concerto, movement 1

Anselmo Mata Erick Cabrera, piano

Jesus Calderon, cello .... Elgar Cello Concerto, movement 1

Dr. John Price, piano

Santiago Rovira, cello .... Faure Elegy

Dr. John Price, piano

Celebration of Diversity

Tuesday, October 22, 2024, at 7:30 pm

Varnado Hall

Natchitoches, Louisiana

PROGRAM included:

Epitaph ... Hans Werner Henze (1926-2012)

Dedicated to Tom Phillips, former SSO principal clarinetist

Paul Christopher, cello

 

Tchaikovsky's Pathetique

Shreveport Symphony Orchestra

RiverView Theater

October 19, 2024, at 7:30 pm

PROGRAM

Piano Concerto No. 4 in G minor, Op. 40 ... Rachmaninoff

Allegro vivace

Largo

Allegro vivace

Ilya Shmukler, Wideman Gold Medalist

Symphony No. 6, "Pathetique," Op. 74 ... Tchaikovsky

Adagio - Allegro non troppo

Allegro con grazia

Allegro molto vivace

Finale: Adagio lamentoso

A Time for Choosing

 Rapides Symphony Orchestra

Coughlin-Saunders Performing Arts Center

Alexandria, Louisiana

October 12, 2024, at 7:30 pm

PROGRAM

DUKAS ... Fanfare from "La Peri"

CHAUSSON .... Poeme, Op. 25

Lin He, violin

DEBUSSY .... Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun

ROSSINI .... Overture to William Tell

NSU musicians

Jasmine, NSU alumna

R

Ricky, NSU alumnus

2025 Marjorie Stricklin Emerging Artists Competition

 

Cello Chat with Dr. Benjamin Whitcomb

Cello Chat: an Interview Podcast Series

Dr. Benjamin Whitcomb, Professor of Cello

University of Wisconsin-Whitewater 

October 11, 2024, at 5:00 pm on fb

The basic theme is inspiring young cellists to practice. Here are the questions I tend to ask:
• Introduce yourself; tell about your musical background
• What inspires you for teaching, practicing, and performing?
• Other than leading by example, what are some ways that you try to infuse enthusiasm in your students?
• What effect has your breadth of musical experience had on your approach to performing, or to musicianship?
• Any additional words of advice or inspiration?

Once an episode it broadcast it gets archived at these websites as well:

https://www.youhadmeatcello.com/cello-cast

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8vurOMoq-CfdZIEvmF6bnQ

https://open.spotify.com/show/5t4t0IdG1KX6EJXt0VfiJc

 

Master Class with John-Henry Crawford

September 23, 2024, 3:00 - 5:00 pm

Magale Recital Hall

Natchitoches, Louisiana

Master Class with John-Henry Crawford:

 

Santiago Uribe

Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme,  Opus 33

Jesus Calderon

Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor, Opus 85

Movement 4: Allegro

Aill Harris and Maira Avellandea

J.S Bach: Suite #2 in D minor, BWV 1008

Prelude

Master Class with Dr. David Rosen, Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra

Saturday, July 13, 2024, at 9:00 am

Natchitoches, Louisiana

 

Summer Music Festival continued

Sewanee Music Center

Chamber Music Recital

July 14, 2024, at 1:00 pm

PROGRAM included:

Piano Quintet Op. 83 .... Carl Reinecke

Finale

Maggie Myint, piano, Leyah James and Paris Tse, violins

Evan Clark, viola, and Jesus Calderon, cello

Summer Music Festival 2024

Sewanee Symphony

Guerry Auditorium

68 Georgia Avenue

Sewanee, Tennessee

June 23, 2024, PROGRAM

Chelsea Gallo, conductor 

Johannes Brahms—Academic Festival Overture, Op.80

Richard Strauss—Der Rosenkavalier Suite 

J. Strauss—Radetzky March 

Brahms—Hungarian Dance No. 5

J. Strauss II.—Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka

 

Simply Classical

Renova Music Festival

June 15, 2024, at 7:30 pm

Magnificat Chapel

Villa Maria, Pennsylvania

PROGRAM

Symphony No. 2 in C Major, Hob. 1:2 ... Haydn

    Allegro

    Andante

    Presto

Symphony No. 1, Op. 25, "Classical" ... Prokofiev

    Allegro

    Larghetto

    Gavotte: Non troppo allegro

    Finale: Molto vivace

Symphony No. 35 in D Major, K. 385, "Haffner" ... Mozart

    Allegro con spirito

    Andante

    Menuetto

    Presto

Chamber Music Concert

Renova Music Festival

June 14, 2024, at 7:30 pm

The Henry Banquet Center

New Castle, PA

PROGRAM 

String Quartet in E Minor, from "My Life" ... Smetana

    Allegro vivo appassionato

    Allegro moderato a la Polka

Eva Cook, violin

Pablo Senosiain, violin

Ronald Zaldana, viola

Elizabeth Mathiesen, cello

String Quartet in D Major, Op. 50, No. 6, "The Frog" ... Haydn

    Allegro

Abigail Morales, violin

Imole Olugbola, violin

Roman Cintron, viola

Gavin Nist, cello

Quintet for Winds ... Nielsen

    Allegro ben moderato

    Praeludium-Theme and Variations

Laura Bowden, flute

Valentina Restrepo, oboe

Kyle Norberg, clarinet

Julia Straton, bassoon

Nora Lemmon, horn

String Quartet No. 3 in G Major, Op. 26 "Slavic" ... Glazunov

    Moderato

Gracie Hayes, violin

Kiley Foxhall, violin

James Kaufman, viola

Santiago Rovira, cello

String Quartet in F Minor, Op. 80 ... Mendelssohn

    Allegro vivace assai

Nathan Jeoung, violin

Carlos Diaz de Valle, violin

Abigail Benzinger, viola

Olivia Schute, cello

Glazunov String Quartet & C. Chung, coach

NSU Band Camp Guest Lecture

June 12, 2024, at 8:30 am

Interpretation Class

Orchestra Room

Natchitoches, Louisiana

Taylor Carrell, tubist

Classical Chamber Music and Orchestra Festival

Renova Summer Music Festival

Magnificat Chapel

Villa Maria, Pennsylvania

Saturday, June 8, 2024, at 7:30 pm

 

PROGRAM

Pavane, Op.50 ... Faure (1845-1924)

Incidental Music to "A Midsummer Night's Dream" ... Mendelssohn (1809-1847)

    Scherzo

    Nocturne

    Wedding March

Le Tombeau de Couperin ... Ravel (1875-1937)

    Prelude

    Forlane

    Menuet

    Rigaudon

Storytime at Natchitoches Public Library

June 4, 2024, at 10:30 am

Natchitoches Public Library

Family Storytime with Mimi Ledbetter, Librarian

450 Second Street

 

Guest Artists Duo Recital

Yunjung Lee, violin

Dong Yeol Hong, cello

Monday, April 29, 2024, at 5:30 pm

Magale Recital Hall

Natchitoches, Louisiana

PROGRAM

Deux Choros (bis) ... Villa-Lobos (1887-1959)

Modere

Lent-anime

Paul Christopher, cello

Eight Pieces, Op. 39 ... Gliere (1874-1956)

Prelude

Gavotte

Berceuse

Canzonetta

Intermezzo

Impromptu

Scherzo

Etude

Together (1989) ... Isang Yun (1917-1995)

I.

II.

Duo for violin and cello, WV. 74 ... Erwin Shulhoff (1894-1942)

I.

II. Zingaresca

III.

IV. 

 

Hansel and Gretel

Hansel and Gretel: the Opera

South Arkansas Symphony Orchestra

April 27, 2024, at 7:00 pm

Municipal Auditorium

El Dorado, Arkansas

 

Virtual Masterclass with Alumnus

Santiago Uribe Cardona, graduate student

Roosevelt School of Music

Chicago, Illinois
Thursdays, April 18 and 25, 2024, at noon

 

MUS 1500 Student Recitals

Tuesday, April 23, 2024, at 12:30 pm

Magale Recital Hall

Natchitoches, Louisiana

PROGRAM includes:

Cello Duet in C Major ... Friedrich August Kummer (1797-1879)

Kohner Smith & Paul Christopher, cellists

 

Hollywood Heroes and Heroines

Rapides Symphony Orchestra

Riverfront Amphitheater

April 20, 2024, at 7:30 pm

Alexandria, Louisiana

POPS PROGRAM

Ben Hur Prelude ... M. Rosza

Themes from 007 ... arr. Custer

Gonna Fly Now ... B. Conti, arr. Holcombe

Theme from Schindler's List ... J. Williams

    Dr. Lin He, violinist

Raider's March ... J. Williams

Colonel Bogey March .. K. Alford

Magnificent Seven ... E. Bernstein, arr. Phillippe

How Far I'll Go ... L. Miranda

As Time Goes By ... H. Hupfeld, arr. Lewis

Let It Go ... R. Lopez

Over the Rainbow ... H. Arlen, arr. M. Renzi

Happy ...P. Williams, arr. Bachalis

    Claire Marie Miller, vocalist

Star Wars - Throne Room ... J. Williams, arr. Holcombe

 

56th Annual Tom Peyton Memorial Arts Festival

Fourth Wall Concert

First United Methodist Church

2727 Jackson Street

Alexandria, Louisiana

April 13, 2024, at 7:30 pm

PROGRAM

Four Motivations ... Robert Owens

    I. The Cottager to her Infant (text by Dorothy Wordsworth)

    II. Hope (text by Emily Dickinson)

    III. A Complaint (text by William Wordsworth)

    IV. Could I But Ride Indefinite (text by Emily Dickinson)

Terrance Brown, baritone

From the Hearts of Women ... William Still Grant, lyrics by Verna Arvey

    Little Mother

    Midtide

    Coquette

    Bereft

Tiffany Bostic-Brown, soprano

Chialing Hsieh, piano

Three Songs on Tests of Paul Laurence Dunbar ... H. Leslie Adams

    The Meadowlark

    The Valse

    He/She Gave Me a Rose

Terrance Brown, baritone

Siying He, piano

Heart on a Wall ... Robert Owens, text by Langston Hughes

    I. Heart

    II. Remembrance

    III. Girl

    IV. Havanna Dream

    V. For Dead Mimes

Tiffany Bostic-Brown, soprano

Student Cello Duo Recital

Santiago Rovira and Jesus Calderon

Thursday, April 18, 2024, at 5:30 pm

Varnado Hall

Natchitoches, Louisiana

FEATURING JS Bach 

Solo Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major ... BWV 1007

    Prelude

    Allemande

    Courante

    Sarabande

    Minuet I and II

    Gigue

Solo Cello Suite No. 3 in C Major ... BWV 1009

    Prelude

    Allemande

    Courante

    Sarabande

    Bourree I and II

    Gigue

Congratulations to Santiago Rovira Ortiz

Dear Santiago,

Based on your audition materials, we are pleased to be able to offer you a position at the 2024 Renova Music Festival! 

The dates of the festival are Sunday evening, June 2 through Saturday night, June 15.  

We will be in touch with more details in the coming weeks.

I look forward to seeing and working with you,

Joshua Zona, Music Director

A Conference for Portable Chamber Duos

2024 International Duo Symposium

April 5-6, 2024

Magale Recital Hall

Natchitoches, Louisiana

PROGRAM included

Riding to School with Samuel Becket ... Neal Endicott

Malena McLaren, bass clarinet

Paul Christopher, cello

Assobio a Jato (The Jet Whistle) ... Heitor Villa-Lobos

    Allegro ma non troppo

    Adagio

    Vivo

Stephen Clark, flute

Paul Christopher, cello

 

Faculty Guitar Recital

Luke Brouillette with special guests

Tuesday, April 2, 2024, at 7:30 pm

Magale Recital Hall

Natchitoches, Louisiana

PROGRAM included

Douce Ambience ... Django Reinhardt

Minor Swing ... Reinhardt/Grapelli

Gypsy Jazz Trio Luke Brouillette, Patrick Bordelon, and Paul Christopher

Double Bass Master Class with Dion Pierre

April 2, 2024, at 1:00 pm

Room 219

Natchitoches, Louisiana

Congratulations to Jesus Calderon Pena

 

Aill Harris III Senior Cello Recital

 

PROGRAM

Duo in G major, Opus 37, No. 1 ... Sebastian Lee (1805-1887)

Allegro non troppo

assisted by Paul Christopher

Suite No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008 ... JS Bach (1685-1750)

Prelude

Allemande

Courante

Sarabande

Menuette 1 and 2

Gigue