Our 2007 music season was capped off in November by an excellent performance of Bach, Beethoven and Gershwin on the Celebration Series and followed by an equally enjoyable pre-service concert on Christmas Eve that featured some holiday jazz standards as well as more traditional pieces by Handel and others. In the coming months, look for the musical diversity to continue.

Our Celebration Series continues on February 24th with a performance by Wilfredo Pasamba, cellist (recent graduate of the Juilliard School). Shoko Kinsella appears on March 30th in a concert of Beethoven, Johann Strauss (a finger-breaking arrangement of “The Blue Danube”), and Prokofiev. In April, you’ll definitely want to come to the concert on the 13th, where guests from the UMKC conservatory will perform Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time. This is a truly moving piece of music - Messiaen wrote this work wile a prisoner of war in a concentration camp during World War II. Despite the horror of his surroundings, it is a hymn to love, joy and the perseverance of the human spirit. It promises to be an unforgettable concert!

Our choir and bell choir schedule for the coming months will include a healthy mix of spirituals and some contemporary music with guest musicians.