November 2010

Jacksonville

Free Jacksonville Concerts scheduled for November, 2010





Wednesday, November 3 @12:30 pm
Wednesday Happening: Andrew Clarke, organist
The "More Wednesday" music programs last 25 minutes.
Riverside Presbyterian Church • www.rpcjax.org
849 Park St. (corner of Post) • Jacksonville, FL • Phone 904-355-4585


Friday, November 5 @ 11:00 am & 7:30 pm
Friday Musicale: CUARTETO DEL SUR

Carlos Odria (guitar, cuatro) • Carlos Silva (guitar, charango, vihuela, cajón) • Brian Hall (bass) • Michael Bakan (Latin/world percussion)
Friday Musicale concerts are presented for the benefit of the Jacksonville community and are free.
Friday Musicale • www.fridaymusicale.com645 Oak Street, Jacksonville, FL • Phone 904-355-7584
Contact: CHRISTOPHER HEACOX, executive director, at 904-232-2601


Friday, November 5 @7:00 pm
Palm Coast UMC: Jamison Walker, Tenor Soloist

Palm Coast United Methodist Church • www.pcconcertseries.org
5200 Belle Terre Parkway, Palm Coast, FL 32137 • Phone 386-445-2098


Friday, November 5 @7:30 pm
UNF Cummer Family Foundation Chamber Music Series

Dr. David Dees, saxophone with Dr. Mimi Noda, piano
Free concert, Dr. Guy Yehuda, artistic director.
1 UNF Drive near Jacksonville, FL 32224
For addtional info call 904.620.2878 or visit website.
Website www.unf.edu/coas/music/calendar.html



Friday, November 5 @7:30 pm
St. John's Cathedral: John Cannon, organist
Premier of David Briggs' Lobe den Herren, O Meine Seele

(Commisioned for John Cannon December 2009)
For more info about John Cannon, visit www.johncannonorgan.com
St. John’s Cathedral • www.saintjohnscathedral.org
256 East Church Street (Duval at Market Street), Jacksonville, FL • Phone 904-356-5507



Saturday, November 6 @7:30 pm
JU: Percussion Ensemble Concert

JU Percussion performs John Cage’s lost radio play: The City Wears A Slouch Hat. The script sketches a surreal story on a man named ‘The Voice’ who wanders around a big city, meeting various characters and circumstances. Also on the program will be pieces for marimba ensemble on how the marimba has slipped into popular culture.
Terry Concert Hall • Jacksonville University • www.ju.edu
2800 Univ Blvd North, Jacksonville, FL • Phone 800-225-2027



Sunday, November 7 @ 10:45 am
UUCJ Music for a Sunday Morning

Timothy Edwards, violin; James Massol, bassoon
Linda Minke, cello; Henson Markham, harpsichord
Boeddecker: Sonata on 'La monica'
Telemann: Sonata
Free and the public is invited. Nursery care provided.
Unitarian Universalist Church of Jacksonville • www.uujax.org • 904-725-8133
7405 Arlington Expressway • Henson Markham, Music Director • 904-346-0373


Sunday, November 7 @5:30 pm
St. Mark’s Concert Series: Evensong for the Feast of All Saints’
Choral Evensong is particularly suited to a celebration of the Feast of All Saints’. The traditional imagery of the evening and the passing from one day to the next blends perfectly with the prayers and remembrances of our loved ones who have gone on before us. Join us as we remember all the saints in our lives.
Communion will follow in the chapel.
For more info about the St. Mark's Concert Series, see Fall 2010 Concert Series Brochure. Free and Open to the Public
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church • www.stmarksjacksonville.org
4129 Oxford Avenue, Jacksonville, FL • Phone 904-388-2681


Sunday, November 7 @ 6:00 pm
Good Shepherd: Solemn Evensong in Observance of All Saint's

Join us and commemorate all the faithful departed of this age and the last with the ancient evening rite of Evensong, with candles, incense, and music.
The music:
Voluntary - Sonata in A Major, Op. 65, No. 3, Felix Mendelssohn
Introit - Beati quorum via, C.V. Stanford
Preces and Responses - Thomas Ebdon
Canticles - Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in D, Herbert Brewer
Anthem - My soul, there is a country, C. Hubert H. Parry
Anthem - Song for Athene, John Tavener
Voluntary - Chant Heroique, Jean Langlais
Sung by the Chancel Choir of Good Shepherd • The Rev. Douglas G. Hodsdon, Officiant
Shannon Gallier, Organist-Choirmaster • Rodney Cleveland, Assisting Organist
A reception will follow in Craig Hall
Shannon Gallier, Organist-Choirmaster • For more info, visit www.facebook.com
Good Shepherd Episcopal Church • www.goodshepherd23.org
Park & Stockton Streets • Jacksonville • 904-387-5691


Monday, November 8 @7:30pm
UNF Recital Hall: Trio Florida

Free Concert! Featuring Guest Artist and New Faculty Member Renate Falkner, viola.
For additional information call 904.620.2878 or visit website.
Website www.unf.edu/coas/music/calendar.html



Friday, November 12 7:00 pm
Jacksonville Masterworks Chorale (www.jmcsings.org) presents Mostly Madrigals
Musical Poetry of the Renaissance
Dr. Mark Stallings, artistic director • David Gall, lute • Anne McKennon, recorder
A free concert ~ donations appreciated • For information call 904-264-2749 or visit www.jmcsings.orgThe Episcopal Church of Our Saviour • www.coos.org12236 Mandarin Rd, Jacksonville, FL 32223-1877 • Phone 904-268-9457


Sunday, November 14 10:45 am
UUCJ Music for a Sunday Morning

Free and the public is invited. Nursery care provided.
Unitarian Universalist Church of Jacksonville • www.uujax.org • 904-725-8133
7405 Arlington Expressway • Henson Markham, Music Director • 904-346-0373


Sunday, November 14 2:30 pm
Intermezzo Sunday Concert Series
Piotr Szewczyk & Gary Smart

Please join us for two great recitals in one afternoon of contemporary music-making!
First, the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra’s Piotr Szewczyk (www.verynewmusic.com) will premiere pieces for unaccompanied violin written especially for him by composers from around the world.
Rounding out the program, University of North Florida professor Dr. Gary Smart will present free-wheeling solo piano improvisations. Discard the labels—expect the unexpected!
This recital is free and open to the public, and free parking is available. For more information about this and other free Library music programs visit jplmusic.blogspot.com, or call (904) 630-2665.
Jacksonville Main Library
Hicks Auditorium (Conference Level), 303 North Laura Street, Jacksonville, FL 32202


Sunday, November 14 4:00 pm
Beaches Fine Arts: Andreas Klein, piano

For more info about Andreas Klein, visit www.andreasklein.comFree and open to the public
Sponsored by Beaches Fine Arts • www.beachesfinearts.org
St. Paul’s By-the-Sea Episcopal Church • www.spbts.net
1150 Fifth St N, Jacksonville Beach, FL 32250 • Phone 904-249-4091


Monday, November 15 7:30 pm
Friday Musicale: Mazurka ~ "Life of Chopin"

Chopin's life told through biographies and letters of the composer's closest friends, including Liszt, Schumann, Fontana, and George Sand and underscored by the performance of Chopin Mazurkas, his most personal music. Written and performed by students from the Jacksonville University piano studio, Scott Watkins, director
Friday Musicale concerts are presented for the benefit of the Jacksonville community and are free.
Friday Musicale • www.fridaymusicale.com645 Oak Street, Jacksonville, FL • Phone 904-355-7584
Contact: CHRISTOPHER HEACOX, executive director, at 904-232-2601


Wednesday, November 17 7:30 pm
JU: Jazz: The Artful Language

Come be a part of what has now become a growing tradition - an intimate nightclub experience. The event will celebrate the ultimate art of musical communication by small chamber jazz groups, featuring student & faculty jazz ensembles
Fine Arts Hall • Jacksonville University • www.ju.edu2800 Univ Blvd North, Jacksonville, FL • Phone 800-225-2027


Friday, November 19 11:00 am & 7:30 pm
Friday Musicale: NING YU, piano


Innovators of the 20th Century
  • Études-tableaux Op. 39 No.1 C minor (1917)by S. Rachmaninoff
  • Etude XI Pour les arpèges composes (1916) by Claude Debussy
  • Études Pour Piano Premier Livre (1985) by György Ligeti
    -----(1. Désordre & 6. Automne à Varsovie)Etude No. 6 “Grain” (2001) by Unsuk Chin
  • Gnomic-Variations (1970) by George Crumb
  • Archipel IV (1970) by Andre Boucourechliev

    Friday Musicale concerts are presented for the benefit of the Jacksonville community and are free.
    Friday Musicale • www.fridaymusicale.com645 Oak Street, Jacksonville, FL • Phone 904-355-7584
    Contact: CHRISTOPHER HEACOX, executive director, at 904-232-2601


    Friday, November 19 7:30 pm
    Orange Park Chorale: "Celebration of Faith, Family and Freedom"

    The Orange Park Chorale (www.orangeparkchorale.com) cordially invites you to the "Celebration of Faith, Family and Freedom" concert!
    Join us for an uplifting performance of songs surrounding some of the most important parts of our lives: Faith, Family and Freedom
    Grace Episcopal Church • www.graceepiscopalop.org
    245 Kingsley Ave, Orange Park, FL 32073-5695 • Phone 904-264-9981
    Admission: FREE (Donations accepted) • For More Information: (904) 271-2326


    Friday, November 19 7:30 pm
    JU: Mazurka

    Chopin’s life, told through biographies and letters of the composer’s closest friends, including Franz Liszt, Robert Schumann, Julian Fontana, and George Sand, and underscored by Chopin’s most personal music, his Mazurkas. Written and performed by students from JU’s piano studio
    Terry Concert Hall • Jacksonville University • www.ju.edu
    2800 Univ Blvd North, Jacksonville, FL • Phone 800-225-2027


    Saturday, November 20 @6pm
    Pianist Jeanne Huebner and Friends

    Unitarian Universalist Church of Jacksonville

    Featuring the Piano Quintet Op. 57 by Dimitri Shostakovich, in observance of the 70th anniversary of its November premiere. Works by Haydn, Boccherini, Debussy and Dvorak.will round out the evening's program.
    Rree and open to the public

    Unitarian Universalist Church of Jacksonville
    7405 Arlington Expressway
    Jacksonville, FL 32211
    904-725-8133
    Rev. Ron Hersom, minister
    Henson Markham, music director
    www.uujax.org


    Sunday, November 21 10:45 am
    UUCJ Music for a Sunday Morning

    Kyle Enriquez, euphonium
    Free and the public is invited. Nursery care provided.
    Unitarian Universalist Church of Jacksonville • www.uujax.org • 904-725-8133
    7405 Arlington Expressway • Henson Markham, Music Director • 904-346-0373


    Sunday, November 21 3:00 pm
    Music through the Ages: Zach Klobnak, organ

    This year marks the 30th anniversary of the installation of All Saints' Austin pipe organ. Director of Music, Zach Klobnak, will present an organ recital of varied repertoire that will include osme pieces from Robert Lee's (Oranist-Choirmast at All Saints, 1965-86) dedicatory recital.
    Music through the Ages is a music concert series celebrating 125 years of ministry at All Saints Episcopal Church • www.allsaintsjax.org
    4171 Hendricks Avenue, Jacksonville, FL • Phone 904-737-8488
    For more info, contact Zach Klobnak, Director of Music


    Sunday, November 21 3:00 pm
    Riverside Community Concert: The Orange Park Chorale
    Douglas Westberry, director

    The Orange Park Chorale (www.orangeparkchorale.com) cordially invites you to the "Celebration of Faith, Family and Freedom" concert!
    Join us for an uplifting performance of songs surrounding some of the most important parts of our lives: Faith, Family and Freedom
    Riverside Presbyterian Church • www.rpcjax.org
    849 Park St. (corner of Post) • Jacksonville, FL • Phone 904-355-4585


    Sunday, November 21 3:00 pm
    JU: Chamber Concert
    JU’s finest musicians will perform a varied and engaging program of chamber music.
    Terry Concert Hall • Jacksonville University • www.ju.edu2800 Univ Blvd North, Jacksonville, FL • Phone 800-225-2027


    Sunday, November 21 6:00 pm
    Victor Minke Huls, cello: Return Recital


    The program will most likely consist of all solo works, such as suites by Bach, Cassado, or Crumb.

    Church of the Good Shepherd
    Good Shepherd Episcopal Church • www.goodshepherd23.org
    Park & Stockton Streets • Jacksonville • 904-387-5691


    Tuesday, November 23, 2010 @7:30pm
    UNF Percussion Ensemble Chamber Concert

    Free Concert!
    Charlotte Mabrey conducts the UNF Percussion Ensemble.
    For additional info call 904.620.2878

    UNF Robinson Theater
    1 UNF Drive near Jacksonville, FL 32224



    Wednesday, November 24 7:00 pm
    St. Mark’s Concert Series: Thanksgiving Eucharist

    The Thanksgiving Eve service is a wonderful tradition at St. Mark’s. Join us for this heartwarming eucharist, with special music by the full choir, as we "raise the song of harvest home."
    For more info about the St. Mark's Concert Series, see Fall 2010 Concert Series Brochure. Free and Open to the Public
    St. Mark’s Episcopal Church • www.stmarksjacksonville.org4129 Oxford Avenue, Jacksonville, FL • Phone 904-388-2681


    Wednesday, November 24 7:00 pm
    Good Shepherd: Holy Eucharist in Observance of Thanksgiving
    Shannon Gallier, Organist-Choirmaster
    Good Shepherd Episcopal Church • www.goodshepherd23.org
    Park & Stockton Streets • Jacksonville • 904-387-5691


    Sunday, November 28 @ 10:45 am
    UUCJ Music for a Sunday Morning
    Ria Falkner, vocals; Peter Alexander, guitar

    Gershwin and other favorites
    Free and the public is invited. Nursery care provided.
    Unitarian Universalist Church of Jacksonville • www.uujax.org • 904-725-8133
    7405 Arlington Expressway • Henson Markham, Music Director • 904-346-0373


    Sunday, November 28 @7:00 pm
    Vivaldi's Glora (RV 589) and Concerto No. 4 in F minor, "Winter," (RV 297)

    The Parish Choir of The Episcopal Church of Our Saviour with chamber orchestra • Dr. Matthew Caine, conductor
    Free admission
    The Episcopal Church of Our Saviour • www.coos.org
    12236 Mandarin Rd, Jacksonville, FL 32223-1877 • Phone 904-268-9457

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