\u201cThe point of our family concerts is both collaborating with our community partners and bringing different parts of the Lehigh Valley community together,\u201d says Dr. Christopher Jackson, Artistic Director and Conductor of the Bach Choir of Bethlehem.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that fairy tales capture the mind of the audience, no matter their age, and often have a broader point which is certainly the case in this tale, \u2018The Nightingale,\u2019 originally written by Hans Christian Anderson,\u201d Jackson says.<\/p>\n
The Bach Choir of Bethlehem presents \u201cThe Greg Funfgeld Family Concert: \u2018The Nightingale,\u2019\u201d 3 p.m. Feb. 22, Zoellner Arts Center, Lehigh University, Bethlehem.<\/p>\n
Anderson\u2019s tale relates the story of a Chinese emperor who falls in love with a nightingale\u2019s birdsong. A mechanical bird is created, which replicates this birdsong and replaces the nightingale. Eventually, the mechanical bird breaks down and the real nightingale returns to the palace to the joy of the emperor.<\/p>\n
Says Jackson, \u201cWe are collaborating with Doug Roysdon and Mock Turtle Marionette Theater to present a musical and theatrical version of this fairy tale.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe marionette puppets are so detailed and engaging to look at and the voice acting is spectacular,\u201d Jackson says.<\/p>\n
The Nightingale song is a famous harpsichord piece, \u201cThe Nightingale in Love,\u201d by French Baroque composer Francois Couperin (1668-1733), and is performed by renowned recorder musician Tricia van Oers.<\/p>\n
Greg Funfgeld, Bach Choir Artistic Director and Conductor Emeritus, joins on harpsichord, and The Bach Choir and Bach Choir Festival Orchestra present works by Johann Sebastian Bach and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter the performance, there is a \u2018meet and greet\u2019 with the puppets to look at how they operate and the program book includes games, word searches and diagrams on how to play the Nightingale song on recorder,\u201d says Jackson.<\/p>\n
Established in 1978 as a touring children\u2019s theater, Mock Turtle Marionette Theater has performed more than 4,000 shows, including multiple engagements at the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center and the New York Fringe Festival.<\/p>\n
Under the direction of puppet-maker and Artistic Director Doug Roysdon, the theater has engaged in 20 educational and artistic collaborations, including major productions with Lehigh University, Bach Choir of Bethlehem and Touchstone Theatre.<\/p>\n
Recorder musician Tricia van Oers received a Teacher\u2019s and Performer\u2019s Degree from Codarts University for the Arts, Rotterdam, Netherlands, and did graduate work at Indiana University\u2019s Early Music Institute, Bloomington, Ind..<\/p>\n
She has performed with Early Music New York, Trinity Baroque Orchestra and the Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia. As a founding member of the Rotterdam-based recorder ensemble Scarabee, Van Oers recorded at the Great Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles, France.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Greg Funfgeld Family Concert: The Nightingale,\u201d The Bach Choir of Bethlehem, 3 p.m. Feb. 22, Zoellner Arts Center, Lehigh University, 420 W. Packer Avenue, Bethlehem. Tickets: box office; 610-758-2787, ext. 0; https:\/\/zoellner.cas.lehigh.edu\/<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of universities will do a concerto competition wherein one student generally wins and they get to perform with the orchestra,\u201d says Kyle Wernke, Assistant Professor of Music and Lehigh University Philharmonic Director, adding, \u201cLehigh decided to do something special and give as many students as possible the opportunity to perform a concerto.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lehigh University Philharmonic presents \u201cConcerto Marathon,\u201d 7:30 p.m. Feb. 20, 21, Zoellner Arts Center, Lehigh University, Bethlehem.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is my second time conducting the Concerto Marathon and I am very excited about it. We have seven soloists this year,\u201d says Wernke.<\/p>\n
The program will be performed in its entirety at each performance.<\/p>\n
Featured works are:<\/p>\n
– \u201cLe Chevaliers de l\u2019Envie\u201d (\u201cThe Knights of Envy\u201d), a student composition inspired by works of Richard Wagner and Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky<\/p>\n
– \u201cConcerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25\u201d (1831), by Felix Mendelssohn<\/p>\n
– \u201cConcerto for Trumpet and Orchestra in E-flat Major\u201d (1803), by Johann Nepomuk Hummel<\/p>\n
– \u201cRomance in F minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 11\u201d (1873-1877), by Antonin Dvorak<\/p>\n
– \u201cConcerto for Cello and Orchestra in E minor\u201d (1919), by Sir Edward Elgar<\/p>\n
– \u201cConcerto for Clarinet and Orchestra No. 2 in E-flat major, Op. 24\u201d (1811), by Carl Maria von Weber<\/p>\n
– \u201cConcerto for Horn and Orchestra in C minor, Op. 8\u201d (1865\/1882), by Franz Strauss, and<\/p>\n
– \u201cConcerto for Bass Tuba or Bass Trombone and Orchestra\u201d (1994-1995\/1997), by Eric Ewazen<\/p>\n
The orchestra is comprised primarily of students with the addition of Dr. Michael Jorgensen, Concertmaster, Lehigh University Professor of Violin and Music Department Chair, and additional LU faculty members.<\/p>\n
The concert closes with John Towner Williams\u2019 \u201cTheme from Jurassic Park\u201d and \u201cAdventures on Earth\u201d from \u201cE.T.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe decided that even though it\u2019s a concerto marathon, we needed to end with something that was for the whole orchestra,\u201d says Wernke.<\/p>\n
\u201cConcerto Marathon,\u201d Lehigh University Philharmonic, 7:30 p.m. Feb. 20, Feb 21, Zoellner Arts Center, Lehigh University, 420 W. Packer Avenue, Bethlehem. Tickets: box office; 610-758-2787, ext. 0; https:\/\/zoellner.cas.lehigh.edu\/<\/p>\n
\u201cClassical View\u201d is a column about classical music concerts, conductors and performers. To request coverage, email: Paul Willistein, Focus editor, pwillistein@tnonline.com<\/p>\n
Dr. Christopher Jackson<\/p>\n
Doug Roysdon<\/p>\n
Tricia van Oers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe point of our family concerts is both collaborating with our community partners and bringing different parts of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-112889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}