Listen Live at Lunch – 2018 Concert Schedule
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“Listen Live at Lunch,” a free concert series provided by First Lutheran Church by Wright Park, will celebrate its tenth season on June 20, 2018.
Every Wednesday at noon, the church will open its doors to people who want to eat their lunch in the sanctuary and listen to live music, ranging from classical to folk music.
2018 Concert Schedule
JUNE 20—Tacoma Opera favorite Ryan Bede and pianist Elizabeth Ellis will open the series on June 20 with vocal works from the British Isles for baritone voice and piano.
JUNE 27—On June 27, David Salge and Coni Liljengren will return to LLL with a program of works for clarinet and piano by Hungarian composer Béla Kovácz, and by Paquito d’Rivera, a Cuban jazz clarinetist. Other works offered will be those by Bay Area composer Larry London and Texans James Balentine and Scott McAllister.
JULY 4—Organist Curt Sather will be the soloist on July 4. He will present American patriotic music for organ including Charles Ives’ “Variation on America”, “The Stars and Stripes Forever”, and a set of variations on “I Got Rhythm,” and a communal singalong.
JULY 11—Leon Christian offers a program of works for classical guitar on July 11. Christian will perform works he has transcribed to guitar from the piano sonatas of Scarlatti and the Bach Lute suites. Also included are Variations on a Theme by Handel, Op.107 by Mauro Giuliani, an Etude by Carruli on a Theme by Mozart. Other guitar works by Fernando Sor, Enrique Granada and Isaac Albeniz will round out the program.
JULY 18—On July 18, the concert series will feature a return appearance by PLU faculty members Jennifer Rhyne and Catherine Case. They will offer a mix of flute and harp solos and duets re- lated to different styles of dance, including Piazzola’s History of the Tango and other shorter works.
JULY 25—On July 25, Tacoma clarinetist Lawrence Bradley will join soprano Karen Evans, and double bassist Chris Burns. They will play works by Hindemith, Betty Roe, Alan Ridout, Morton Gould, Rob Hutchinson, Deborah Anderson and David Anderson.
AUGUST 1—On August 1, Kristina Henckel, a pianist formerly from the Puget Sound area who now teaches in South Carolina will play a program of piano favorites by Beethoven, Chopin and Liszt. She will collaborate with narrator Paul Twedt for the “The Selfish Giant” by Liza Lehmann based on a story by Oscar Wilde.
AUGUST 8—Organist Una Hwang will return to Listen Live at Lunch on August 8 playing an all-Cesar Franck program.
AUGUST 15—Vancouver Symphony bassist Evan Hulbert will give a solo recital on August 15th performing works by Lancen, a Sonata by Adolf Misek, a showpiece by Bottesini and the Divertimento Concertante by Nino Rota. Pianist Duane Hulbert will provide the accompaniment.
AUGUST 22—On August 22, the Listen Live at Lunch series will feature the husband-wife duo Soprello, with Allison Pohl, soprano, and Alistair McRae, cellist. They will perform a new arrangement of Bach’s Ave Maria, and songs by Clara Schumann, Debussy and Rachmaninoff. MacRae will also be joined by Duane Hulbert performing give African-American spirituals for cello and piano.
AUGUST 29—Finally, to celebrate 10 years of Listen Live at Lunch, a BONUS CHILDREN’S CONCERT will be performed on Wednesday, August 29. Grammy-nominated pianist Duane Hulbert will premiere of two of his compositions: Songs of Emily Dickinson and John Glenn: An American Pioneer. He will be joined by trumpeter Neil Hulbert and bassist Evan Hulbert in the new works and for children’s favorites The Flight of the Bumblebee, The Elephant, La Vergen de Macarena, Bugler’s Holiday, Alley Cat and others.