**This is not an RCNV sponsored event**
For Immediate Release:
Musical Soulmates continues presenting gorgeously intimate musical evenings, richly representing BIPOC composers and performers, and celebrating the collaborative process. In 2022-2023 we raise funds and awareness for Santa Cruz County Black Health Matters Initiative, for Music in May, and for Harmony Youth Choir- founded by Kate Saphir Alm in collaboration with Music in May founder Rebecca Jackson-Picht, serving and served by majority BIPOC.
It is a delight to be starting off our 2022-2023 season on Sunday, October 23rd, at 7:00PM at Calvary Episcopal Church, 532 Center Street, Santa Cruz, with another evening of Piano Quintets. This intimate evening includes the complete and illustrious Brahms Piano Quintet, a masterpiece borne not only of Brahms’ musical genius and turbulent emotions but through his collaborative journey with his own Musical Soulmates: Joseph Joachim and Clara Schumann. The evening includes selections from Ives and Grenados, which also evoke a deep yearning- perhaps personal, spiritual, or some of both. In a radical collaboration, Sarah Cruse joins us on the Ives, bringing Ives’ 20th century avant-guarde sensibility into this century, overlaying the music with singing and spoken word. We present the other-wordly Allegretto quasi andantino from the Grenados Piano Quintet and reprise our favorite movement of Dvorak, from last November, the Scherzo, with Bhavananda Lodkey again gracing the music with poetic embodiment of a Rumi poem.
We will continue the season with “Passion” on November 20, featuring Diva Leberta Lorál, supported by Kate Saphir Alm and none other than Tammy Lynn Hall, the Bay Area’s renown and consummate Jazz pianist, and with “Delight”, a Trio and Duets concert including the joyous PianoTrio in F Major of Saint Saëns and the Suite for Violin and Piano by William Grant Still, and more, on May 14, Mother’s Day.
Tickets available HERE
https://musicalsoulmatesyearning.eventbrite.com
Questions contact Kate Saphir Alm: 831.227.7535
