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Spend an afternoon with John Rutter at the Cathedral of Saint Paul on Saturday, January 17, with the VocalEssence Chorus. Ensemble Singers and orchestra ring in the new year with some of his beloved Epiphany carols and the U.S. premiere of his latest masterwork inspired by James Weldon Johnson’s poem “The Creation.”
More information and tickets for both events are available at vocalessence.org/events.
Here’s a program you won’t hear ANYWHERE else this weekend, or probably this decade: music for Musette, the dainty bagpipe used in the kind of elegant chamber music played by Louis XIV’s pals! Dick Hensold, deluxe bagpiper (and recorder virtuoso) and obsessive musette researcher, leads a petite bande and Maria Jette in several arias by various excellent yet forgotten composers, plus a neat little cantata, LE BOUQUET— plus plenty of instrumental music, most of which has likely never been heard in MN.
If you are unable to make the 3 pm concert, Dick and Maria will also be performing as part of the 10 am worship service that morning.
Prelude: McNaught’s Favor © Dick Hensold, reel pipes
Anthem: Wayfaring Stranger, Maria Jette, voice, Dick Hensold, Northumbrian smallpipes
Postlude: Hills of Glenorchy (traditional Scottish) / Joys of Wedlock (traditional Irish) / John MacLean © Dick Hensold, Highland bagpipes
Grades 3–6
Wednesdays, 6:45–7:30 p.m.
Adults 18+
Wednesdays, 6:45–7:45 p.m.