Fall & Winter 2020 Mini-Concert Series
The Trinity Music Ministry is pleased to invite you to a 30 minute recital on Sunday afternoon, November 1, at 5:00 PM. The recital includes two song-cycles: Beethoven’s An die ferne Geliebte (To the distant beloved) and Gabriel Fauré’s Cinq mélodies de Venise (Five song of Venice). The performers are tenor Colin Doyle and pianist James Smith, Trinity’s music director. This event will help bring music-lovers of our parish and beyond together for a moment of respite amid all our woes and isolation. It will also put Trinity’s new audio-visual equipment through its paces, The performers are excited to be able to make what we hope will be a high quality performance both musically and technically. The recital will feature subtitles that allow listeners to follow the poetic texts word by word. Programme notes will also be available a week in advance on the Trinity website.
2020, for all its surprises and worries, also marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Beethoven. We would be remiss to not celebrate this in some way, so this performance of An die ferne Geliebte, one of the first musical works to be styled a “song cycle,” is our humble tribute to the composer. The songs are of great lyricism and often of an almost folk-like simplicity but display above all Beethoven’s genial exploration of the possibilities of the piano. The Fauré songs are settings of poems by the symboliste poet Paul Verlaine. Some of these poems are inspired by paintings of Watteau that depict the fêtes champêtres (country parties) of the French nobility. But within the poems and the music there is a deep exploration of sensual love and despair hidden beneath the gaiety of the surface. Fauré’s novel harmonies seem to evoke the synesthesia of these poems, where touch, sound, sight and odor are blended into a single experience.
This mini-concert will be streamed on Youtube, followed by a virtual reception with James and Colin, via zoom. Visit the Trinity website for concert and reception registration links. This will be the first of three virtual concerts for 2020 and 2021. Please be with us that afternoon to savor the joys of beautiful music and human companionship.
2020, for all its surprises and worries, also marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Beethoven. We would be remiss to not celebrate this in some way, so this performance of An die ferne Geliebte, one of the first musical works to be styled a “song cycle,” is our humble tribute to the composer. The songs are of great lyricism and often of an almost folk-like simplicity but display above all Beethoven’s genial exploration of the possibilities of the piano. The Fauré songs are settings of poems by the symboliste poet Paul Verlaine. Some of these poems are inspired by paintings of Watteau that depict the fêtes champêtres (country parties) of the French nobility. But within the poems and the music there is a deep exploration of sensual love and despair hidden beneath the gaiety of the surface. Fauré’s novel harmonies seem to evoke the synesthesia of these poems, where touch, sound, sight and odor are blended into a single experience.
This mini-concert will be streamed on Youtube, followed by a virtual reception with James and Colin, via zoom. Visit the Trinity website for concert and reception registration links. This will be the first of three virtual concerts for 2020 and 2021. Please be with us that afternoon to savor the joys of beautiful music and human companionship.