[NEohioPAL] Vaughan Williams - The Song Cycles

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Concerts at the Crossroads, the performance series of Christ Episcopal
Church which presented all three Schubert cycles last spring, brings
solo vocal music back to the sanctuary with a Vaughan Williams Festival
on Saturday, January 26th at 3 pm.



The festival concert features two of his great song cycles, Songs of
Travel for voice and piano (poems by Robert Louis Stevenson) and the
Five Mystical Songs for voice, choir, and organ (poems by George
Herbert).  Christopher Grundy, baritone, will sing both cycles,
accompanied by Nathan Carterette, pianist/choral conductor, the
combined choirs of Christ Episcopal, Trinity Cathedral, and Church of
the Covenant, and organist Daniel Hathaway, Canon for Music at Trinity
Cathedral.



Also on the program are works of Vaughan William's contemporary and
mentor Maurice Ravel, including the Five Popular Greek Songs, and his
successor Benjamin Britten, with a selection of his famous folk song
arrangements.



Admission is free with a $10 suggested donation, and a reception will follow the performance.



Christ Episcopal Church is unmistakably located on the corner of
Warrensville Center Road and Chagrin, 3445 Warrensville Center Rd, in Shaker Heights.  

For more information, please call 216.991.3432.





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Christopher Grundy,
baritone, is an active recitalist who has performed throughout the
United States and Europe. He has a broad concert and operatic
repertoire ranging from the Renaissance through the 21st
Century. He works as a soloist with many choral ensembles, including
the Choir of the St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York, and the Amor
Artis Chorale under Johannes Somary. Mr. Grundy began his vocal
studies with John Mack Ousley, and his piano studies with John
Contiguglia. He completed his B.A. at Yale University, where he was
awarded the Ben Cutler Vocal Scholarship. During this time he
conducted the Yale Russian Chorus, served as the Assistant Conductor
of the Yale Glee Club, and appeared in leading roles with the Yale
College Opera Company. For two summers he performed at the AIMS
festival in Graz, Austria, where he studied with Harold Heiberg. He
enjoys bringing lesser-known composers (new and old) to the concert
stage, and is currently preparing two new programs, one featuring the
Lieder of Ferruccio Busoni and Wilhelm Stenhammar, the other the
Silent Songs of Valentin Silvestrov. Mr. Grundy teaches
singing privately at his home in New Haven, Connecticut. 




He has collaborated
with Nathan Carterette in concert since 1999, and is pleased to
return to Christ Episcopal Church, where he last performed Schubert's Schwanengesang in spring 2007.



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