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Welcome ...
to another season of The Fairmount Music Series, featuring two major choral highlights! The nternationally-acclaimed 40-voice Gloriæ Dei Cantores, directed by Elizabeth Patterson, will make Fairmount their only concert stop on their way from New York to Chicago on October 15. Their program will include Gregorian chant, English Tudor anthems, Russian classics, and 20th century American and French works. Their concert at St. John’s Cathedral a few years ago was packed! And on March 1 the choirs from co-sponsors Fairmount, First Baptist and Plymouth Churches and a 42-member orchestra will be led by distinguished conductor Robert Page (longtime choral director for the Cleveland Orchestra) in Haydn’s The Creation. This continues the three-church concert tradition — this year the first time at Fairmount—and marks the 200th anniversary of Haydn’s death.
The Series includes five splendid concerts by our acclaimed Orchestra-in-Residence, CityMusic Cleveland. Our beautiful new chapel organ, built by son-of-the-congregation Charles Ruggles, is celebrated by a service of dedication/recital on October 5 and a recital with guest artists on May 3. The Fairmount Choir sings the Fauré Requiem in worship on November 2, and vocal fireworks are displayed in a Handelian concert featuring countertenor Daniel Schuetz and our own Lisa Litteral on April 26. Young artists are showcased in a Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra program on February 8, our own Choir section leaders lend their talents in a cabaret night (Dinner and Song) on January 31, and our congregation and friends will revel in the Feast of Carols and Pudding on December 14.
This is an ambitious season that deserves your attendance and support. Ten of our musical offerings this year are totally dependent on free-will offerings. Won’t you consider becoming a patron of the Series?
Please join us for a spectacular season!
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Robert Moncrief,
Minister of Music
Please, be an Angel!
Angel: $40 and + You receive listing in the program
(fully tax-deductible)
Archangel: $100 + Listing in program, choice of 2 tickets
for Gloriæ Dei Cantores OR Haydn
($60 tax-deductible)
Cherubim: $175 + Listing in program, 2 tickets for Gloriæ
Dei Cantores AND Haydn
($95 tax-deductible)
Seraphim: $275 + Listing in program, 2 tickets for
Cabaret, Gloriæ Dei Cantores, and
Haydn ($125 tax-deductible)
Archangels, Cherubim, and Seraphim also receive preferred seating.
Please make checks payable to Fairmount Presbyterian Church
and be sure to let us know exactly how you wish to be listed.
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Fairmount Music Series Schedule 2008/2009
Sunday, February 8 — 3:00 PM
Cleveland Orchestra
Youth Orchestra Chamber Music
Enjoy the intimacy of Memorial Chapel in an afternoon program of chamber music by some of the Cleveland area’s finest young musicians.
Wednesday, February 18 - 7:30 PM
CityMusic Cleveland Concert:
Chamber Music Masterpieces
Special Guest Artists: Edward Arron, Ivan Chan, Zsolt Eder, Charles Krenner, Kyung Sun Lee, Peter Salaff, Eric Wong, Keiko Ying
Franz Schubert: String Quintet in C Major, D.956
Felix Mendelsson: Octet in Eb Major, Op.20
Sunday, March 1 — 3:00 PM
Franz Joseph Haydn’s The Creation
Distinguished conductor Robert Page leads a 100-voice choir from co-sponsors Fairmount, First Baptist and Plymouth Churches and a 42-member orchestra in this brilliant work, marking the 200th anniversary of Haydn’s death. Proceeds will benefit the Interfaith Hospitality Network. Tickets available at the three churches.
Sunday, April 26 — 3:00 PM
Giulio Cesare and more . . .
In tribute to the great soprano Beverly Sills, masterpieces from Handel's Giulio Cesare in Egitto, featuring soprano
Lisa Litteral, countertenor Daniel Schuetz, harpsichordist Janina Ceaser, and chamber ensemble will help to explore the legendary soprano's break-out role, creating the renaissance of today's early-music opera movement, and the re-birth of the countertenor.
Sunday, May 3 — 3:00 PM
Celebrating the Ruggles Chapel Organ:
The Egler-Shelly Duo
Organist Steven Egler, Professor of Music at Central Michigan University, and Flutist Frances Shelly, Professor of Music at Wichita State, perform a fascinating program of organ and flute works to celebrate Fairmount’s new 14-stop chapel organ,
built by Charles Ruggles. Co-sponsored by the Cleveland Chapter of the American Guild of Organists.
Tuesday, May 5 — 7:30 PM
CityMusic Cleveland Concert
In a fascinating program entitled Heaven and Earth, we hear sacred works of Schubert and earthly works of Charles Ives. Quire Cleveland, directed by Betsy Burleigh, will sing Schubert’s “little” Stabat Mater and the Mass in G, and James Gaffigan conducts.
Tuesday, September 23 — 7:30 PM
CityMusic Cleveland Concert
Guest Conductor Danail Rachev leads the acclaimed orchestra in music of Richard Strauss, Haydn, and Brahms, with violinist Kyung Sun Lee and cellist Edward Arron.
Sunday, October 5 — 3:00 PM
Chapel Organ Dedication
The beautiful new 14-stop Memorial Chapel organ, built by Charles Ruggles, a son of the congregation, will be dedicated, with recital works played by Robert Moncrief.
Wednesday, October 15 — 7:30 PM (lecture at 6:30)
Gloriae Dei Cantores
The internationally renowned 40-voice choir Gloriae Dei Cantores (Singers to the Glory of God), under the direction of Elizabeth Patterson, presents a compelling concert of Gregorian Chant, Tudor anthems, Russian classics, and 20th century French and American works.
Tickets required, purchase online through our secure Box Office.
Advanced Prices:
General $20; Students and Seniors $16
At the Door Prices:
General $25; Students and Seniors $20
Sunday, November 2 — 11:00 AM
Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem
The Fairmount Choir sings the endearing Requiem of Gabriel Fauré, with organ, harp, and violin, as part of worship for All Souls’ Day.
Wednesday, November 5 — 7:30 PM
CityMusic Cleveland Concert
Works by Mozart, Schumann, and Beethoven, with cellist Joshua Roman and conductor James Gaffigan, highlight this stellar program.
Saturday, November 8 — 3:00 PM
CityMusic Cleveland Family Concert
Prokofiev’s orchestral fairy tale Peter and the Wolf and Britten’s Simple Symphony make an excellent introduction to the orchestra for children. Mwatabu S. Okantah will narrate, and James Gaffigan will conduct.
Tuesday, December 2 — 7:30 PM
CityMusic Cleveland Concert
Works of Lully, Rossini, Sibelius, Beethoven, Corelli and Gounod will sparkle under the baton of James Gaffigan in this ‘Not-Your-Usual Holiday Concert’.
NEW! Sunday, December 7 — 4:30 PM
Heights High School A Cappella Choir
and Catch the Spirit choral group
Eighty singers from the Heights High School A Cappella Choir and Catch the Spirit choral group, under the direction of Craig McGaughey, will present a benefit concert for the homeless entitled “Hope for the Holidays” on Sunday, December 7, at 4:30 PM in our sanctuary. They will sing choruses from Handel’s Messiah andVivaldi’s Gloria, as well as carols of John Rutter and other seasonal favorites, with accompaniment by a ten-member instrumental ensemble.
The suggested donation for this event will be $7 for adults and $5 for students and seniors. The intention is to raise enough money to prepare a meal and give a complete winter outfit to 100 homeless people, who are under the care of North Presbyterian Church. In addition to the concert donation, the singers are inviting gifts of coats, hats, shirts, sweaters, and packages of underwear, which you may bring to the church the afternoon of the concert.
Please support this benefit concert and help to make the holidays brighter for our homeless!
Sunday, December 14 —
4:30 and 7:00 PM
Feast of Carols and Pudding
The Fairmount tradition returns, with musical and dramatic revelry, a court wizard, audience caroling, and delicious holiday dessert. Tickets required.
Saturday, January 31 — 7:00 PM
Cabaret: Dinner and Song
Chase away the winter cold with a gourmet meal and entertainment by the Fairmount Choir section leaders, demonstrating their vocal abilities on the lighter side.
Tickets required, available at coffee hours. $35 dinner & show, $5 pre-show wine & cheese (only available with dinner & show). |
