Monday, April 28, 2008

Annual Crocker Concert

The Annual Sacramento Saturday Club Crocker Concert was held yesterday (Sunday), April 27, at CSU Sacramento, in the Music Recital Hall, at 3:00 p.m. Crocker concerts are being held at Sac State due to the remodel of the Crocker Museum, which should be completed some time in 2010.



This concert featured Ensemble Confluentes, which performed compositions by Baroque composers: Couperin, Bach, and Telemann. Please see the accompanying program notes for the specific pieces.



Members of Ensemble Confluentes are: Cathie Apple, Timothy Stanley, Charles Spruill, IV, and Sacramento Saturday Club's very own Alex Ives. Their biographies are included in the program notes.

Turnout for the concert was high, because of well-deserved and enthusiastic support for Ensemble Confluentes, and because of the efforts of our Publicity Board Member, Alex Ives, who arranged to have the Sacramento Saturday Club featured on Capital Public Radio's local radio program, Insight (listen).




Crocker Arts Board member and internationally respected pianist, Theresa Keene introduced the Crocker classical concert performance.





After several warm rounds of applause for Ensemble Confluentes, SSC President, John Cozza spoke to the audience about the history and mission of the organization and invited interested parties to visit our website or pick up a membership application and join our efforts to support aspiring music students in our community.



John then presented Mrs. Margaret Heilbron, 93, with an honorary lifetime membership plaque, in recognition for her many, many years of generous support and unflagging dedication to the Sacramento Saturday Club. It was due to Mrs. Heilbron's efforts that men were finally admitted to this prestigious organization.

On behalf of the men in our group, I thank you, Mrs. Heilbron!



-- Reported by Bruce Hubbard

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

On The Air Waves

Today the Sacramento Saturday Club was featured on Insight, radio station KXJZ. John Cozza, SSC president, Margaret Heilbron, SSC member and Tim Stanley, cellist with Ensemble Confluentes are interviewed by Jeffrey Callison.

The segment from the archived recording can be heard here (courtesy of KXJZ/Insight, Jeffrey Callison).

Hat tip to Alex Ives for this information.

Monday, April 21, 2008

Scholarship Winners

The Bertha Stever/Pascal Monk Memorial Auditions were held yesterday, April 20, 2008, at CSUS. The competition resulted in the following 2008 Stever/Monk Music Scholarship Winners:

Vocal
Winner: Ariana Uriz
Alternate: Kristin Bluemel

Piano
Winner: Junyao Peng
Alternate: Samantha Nielsen

Instrumental
Winner: Elaine R. Fitz Gibbon, 'Cello
Alternate: Senmiao "Ray" Zhou, Guitar


The email copy received from John Cozza, President of the Sacramento Saturday Club, concludes with: "Thank you all for your participation, and the best of luck to all of you in your future musical endeavors!"

Every two years, the Sacramento Saturday Club hosts the Bertha Stever/Pascal Monk Memorial Auditions, open to students age 17-26 from Sacramento and adjoining counties. The next competition will be in Spring of 2010.

More information on Sacramento Saturday Club Scholarships, including the Annual Scholarships, can be found here.

Mark your calendars - winners of Stever/Monk Competition will be performing in Room 151, Capistrano Hall, (Choral Room), CSUS on Saturday, May 17, 2008, at 7:00 pm.

Congratulations!

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

SSC Spring Recruting

John Cozza and Bruce Hubbard were recruiting for the Sacramento Saturday Club, once again, at the Sacramento Philharmonic's Great Works Series: 03/29/08, at the Sacramento Community Center.

The Sacramento Philharmonic put on a wonderful performance: Elgar's Enigma Variations; Rozsa's Excerpts from the Choral Suite to Ben Hur; and Strauss' Vier Letzte Lieder, "Four Last Songs" (beautifully sung by soprano, Talise Trevigne).

But even more wonderful was the pre-curtain performance by young future musicians and the recipients of Jammies Awards for classical music: Ray Anthony Trujillo (12)- played the last movement of Medelsohn's Violin concerto (Ray and his family have attended a SSC meeting, at which Ray performed); and Robin Fisher's students, Amber Brent (15) and Ellen Presley (20)- performed the duet from Mendelsohn's Lobgesang Symphony.





The award recipients were preceded by a cute cadre of determined violinists.


Hope to see you at the next meeting! See our website calendar or check your email/mail for the next SSC Newsletter, for the date.

-- Reported by Bruce Hubbard