Kansas City Musical Club
organized to stimulate, encourage, and acquire a broader knowledge of music and musical literature
PROGRAMS -- October, 2014 through May, 2015

Monday, October 6, 2014 -- First Lutheran, Mission Hills

Songs of Love and War  from 1914
Love Went A-Riding -- Frank Bridge
They Didn't Believe Me -- Jerome Kern
When You're Away -- Victor Herbert
Land of Hope and Glory -- Sir Edward Elgar
Soldiers of the Queen -- Leslie Stuart
Severn Meadows, By a Bier-side, and Sleep -- Ivor (Bertie) Gurney
The Soldier -- John Ireland
Keep the Home Fires Burning -- Ivor Novello
The Chariots of the Lord -- Sir Edward Elgar
Lindsey McKee, Soprano
John Schaefer, Piano

Sonata No. 21 in C, Op. 53 "Waldstein"-- Ludwig van Beethoven
I Allegro con brio
Ballade No. IV, Op. 52 in F Minor -- Frederic Chopin
ChunMan Kim, Piano
Monday, November 3, 2014 -- First Lutheran, Mission Hills

Parade, Lisette, Popcorn -- Allan Rosenheck, N.Y. 1937
You LoversThat Have Loves Astray, Through Me You Do Disdain to View -- John Hilton, publ. 1627
Que me servoit de me resoudre - Gabrielle Bataille, publ. 1608
Come Phyllis, Come into These Bowers -- Thomas Ford, publ. 1607
Deere, When to Thee My Sad Complaint I Make -- Alfonso Ferrabosco, publ. 1609
Lute Duets (as announced)
Beau le Cristal (Beautiful is Crystal) -- Roland de Lassus (v. 1532-1594)
HAUSMUSIK
Anne Hardy Biswell, Soprano
Margot Hardy Ferguson, Violin
Klaus Grunewald, Recorder
George Moss, Lute
Al Williams, Lute
 
Clair de Lune -- Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Impromptu in E-flat Major, Op. 90, No. 2 -- Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Sonata No. 3 in F Minor, Op. 5 -- Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
I Allegro maestoso
The Man I Love, Prelude in B-flat Major -- George Gershwin (1898-1937)
Jerry Pope, Piano

Monday, December 1, 2014 -- First Lutheran, Mission Hills

Organ:  Wachet auf! Ruft uns die stimme, BWV 645 -- Johann S. Bach (1685-1750) 
Schola:  Rorate Caeli -- Mode I
Choir:  Creator Alme Siderum -- Mode IV
Hymn (All):  O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
Instrumental:  Chorus from "Judas Maccabeus" -- George F. Handel (1685-1759)
Gabriel Spencer and Timothy Spencer, Violins
Choir:  O Sanctissima -- Sicilian Melody
Choir:  Magnificat -- Simple Tone, Mode VIII
Hymn (All):  Hark!  A Thrilling Voice is Sounding
Choir:  Ave Maria, Opus 9 -- Marcel Dupre (1886-1971)
Organ:  Puer Natus Est -- Everett Titcomb (1884-1968)
Carol (All):  Once in Royal David's City
Austin Spencer, Treble Solo
 
St. Vincent de Paul's Catholic Boys Choir
Scott Foppiano, Organist-Choirmaster

Monday, February 2, 2015 -- First Lutheran, Mission Hills

Trio for Clarinet, Violin, and Piano -- Aram Khachaturian
I Andante, II Allegro, III Moderato
 
Trio for Flute, Violin, and Piano -- Mino Rota
Allegro

Trio in B-flat (K358) -- W.A. Mozart
I Allegro, II Adagio, III Molto Presto

Techno Parade (2002) - Guillaume Connesson
 
Ensemble of Kiowa -- University of Kansas
coached by Scott McBride Smith and Michael Kirkendoll
*****
Margaret Lambie, flute; Mickayla Chapman, clarinet;
Mandy Wang, violin; and Cong Cong Chai, piano.

Monday, March 2, 2015 -- First Lutheran, Mission Hills

 
Cello Sonata in F major, Op. 6  -- Richard Strauss
I Allegro con brio, 
II Andante ma non troppo
Sunnat Ibragimov, Cello and Artem Kuznetsov, Piano
 
Poème, op.25 -- Ernest Chausson 
Laurel Gagnon, Violin and Lolita Lisovskaya­ Sayevich, Piano
 
Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 36 in B ­flat minor (1913 edition)  -- Sergei Rachmaninoff
I  Allegro agitato, 
II  Non allegro, 
III  Allegro molto
Jinhong Li, Piano

Monday, April 13, 2015 -- F
irst Lutheran, Mission Hills
Carillon de Longpont -- Louis Vierne
Symphonie V en f-moll -- Charles-Marie Widor
First and Second Movements
Leora Nauta, Organ

Songs of Travel -- Ralph Vaughn Williams
Poetry of Robert Louis Stevenson
The Vagabond; Let Beauty Awake; The Roadside Fire; Youth and Love; In Dreams; 
The Infinite Shining Heavens; Whither Must I Wander; Bright is the Ring of Words; 
I Have Trod the Upward and the Downward Slope
 
Paul Davidson, Baritone
Leora Nauta, Piano

Sunday, April 19 -- 
Faith Lutheran Church, Prairie Village, KS
BENEFIT CONCERT -- PERFORMANCES by 2015 SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS
 
"Revenge, Timotheus Cries!" from Alexander's Feast -- George Frederick Handel
Earth and Air and Rain -- Gerald Finzi
Poetry of Thomas Hardy
"So I Have Fared" and "Rollicum-Rorum"
Alfredo Beltran, Baritone
Richard Williams, Piano
 
"L'a-je bien entendu? ... O mon Fernand" from La Favorite -- Gaetano Donizetti
"George" --- William Bolcom
Alice Chung, Mezzo-Soprano
Richard Williams, Piano
 
"Danse Macabre" -- Camille Saint-Saens
"The Little Horses" -- Aaron Copland
"Poor Wayfaring Stranger" -- Steven Mark Kohl
"The Old Woman's Courtship" -- Steven Mark Kohl
Michael Colman, Bass-Baritone
Richard Williams, Piano
 
Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 2, "Moonlight" -- Ludwig van Beethoven
I Adagio sostenuto; II Allegretto; III Presto agitato
Artem Alexanyan, Piano


Monday, May 4 -- Grace & Holy Trinity Cathedral's Founders' Hall, Kansas City, MO
Recognition of 2014-15 Executive Board
Installation of Elected & Appointed Officers & Chairpersons
Presentation of 2015 Annual Award to J. Kent Barnhart

Music Program for Annual Luncheon

"Recondita armonia" from Tosca -- Pucinni
Two Icelandic folk songs
Vigthor Zophoniasson, Tenor
J. Kent Barnhart, Piano
 
The Entertainer -- Scott Joplin, arr. by Marvin Hamlisch
J. Kent Barnhart, Piano

"All the French Words I Know"
written, sung, and played by 
J. Kent Barnhart

Bring Them Home from  Les Miserables -- Boublil, Schonberg, Kretzmer
Stranger in Paradise  from Kismet  -- Wright and Forrest
Vigthor Zophoniasson, Tenor
J. Kent Barnhart, Piano
 

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