Guitar and Organ Baroque: includes music originally composed for mandolin!! Feb 8

Mandolin Orchestra friends,

Sorry about the earlier mixup regarding a concert that actually happened last year!  This one is different: no cello, but guitar and organ.  Still highly recommended: I expect it will be terrific music and great fun!  Here's a link to campus maps:  https://www.stthomas.edu/media/campusmaps/stpaul2Dalpha.pdf .  Parking at Anderson Parking Facility (#71 on map) is guaranteed to be safe.  If I can find out anything about parking in the closer parking lots in the evening, I'll post info.

Ray Artz

News From the University of St. Thomas

For immediate release: Jan. 21, 2014

Contacts: Chris Kachian, St. Thomas Guitar Program
(651) 962-5858 and cskachian@stthomas.edu<mailto:cskachian@stthomas.edu>
Jim Winterer, St. Thomas media relations
(651) 962-6404 and jcwinterer@stthomas.edu<mailto:jcwinterer@stthomas.edu>

St. Thomas baroque group to open season Feb 8 with works
written by three great composers ‘in their callow youth’

The 15th anniversary free concert in St. Mary’s Chapel is presented by the Society for the Doctrinal Affectation of Baroque Music.

St. Paul, Minn. – The Society for the Doctrinal Affectation of Baroque Music opens its 2014 season with a free concert at 8PM, Sat Beb 8, in St. Mary’s Chapel, located on the far-western end of Summit Avenue on the campus of the St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity of the University of St. Thomas.

The 15th annual concert features the youthful music of three great composers: Bach, Haydn and Beethoven. Works will include the rarely heard Beethoven mandolin pieces composed in the thrall of affection for a patroness; Haydn’s early masterful effort at the string quartet form, here in a world-premiere arrangement for guitar and piano; and recently discovered organ chorales of the teenage Bach.

Musicians are David Jenkins, organist and pianist, and Christopher Kachian, guitarist. Jenkins is liturgical music director at the School of Divinity and teaches organ for the university’s Music Department. Kachian is professor of music at the university.

A third society member, St. Thomas art historian Michelle Nordtorp-Madson, will present minilectures, with slides, about art from the Baroque period in Europe.

The society’s program notes explain that it “is dedicated to stylish performances of early musical artifacts with nonconventional instrumentation. The society’s artistic mission is to arouse the elevated passions of modern audiences through elegant interpretations informed by the latest in historical discovery.”

The concert is co-sponsored by the School of Divinity and the university’s Art History and Music departments. More information about the society is available at (651) 962-5858.

Added by Ray Artz 31 Jan: Campus map: https://www.stthomas.edu/media/campusmaps/stpaul2Dalpha.pdf
Parking is available at the Anderson Parking Facility (normally around $2 per hour, proabably free on the weekend).  There are surface lots nearer the concert.  Parking restrictions there might not be enforced the niight of the concert, but there's no guarantee. (If I learn more, I'll re-post.)  Free on-street parking might be available on Summit Ave.

CHRIS KACHIAN, GUITAR

DAVID JENKINS, ORGAN and PIANO

MICHELLE NORDTORP-MADSON, ART HISTORIAN

THE SOCIETY FOR THE DOCTRINAL AFFECTATION

OF BAROQUE MUSIC IS DEDICATED TO STYLISH PERFORMANCES

OF EARLY MUSICAL ARTIFACTS

WITH NON-CONVENTIONAL INSTRUMENTATION.

THE SOCIETY’S ARTISTIC MISSION

IS TO AROUSE THE ELEVATED PASSIONS OF MODERN AUDIENCES

THROUGH ELEGANT INTERPRETATIONS

INFORMED BY THE LATEST IN HISTORICAL DISCOVERY.

THE SOCIETY SUBMITS

FOR YOUR WORTHY INTELLECTUAL ENTERTAINMENT

A PERFORMANCE OF YOUTHFUL MUSIC BY BACH,

HAYDN AND BEETHOVEN.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2014

8:00 P.M.

ST. MARY’S CHAPEL

THE SAINT PAUL SEMINARY

UNIVERSITY OF ST. THOMAS

ORGAN CHORALES OF BACH, CHAMBER MUSIC BY HAYDN AND BEETHOVEN

ALL FOR YOUR GRACIOUS REPAST

ADMISSION, AS ALWAYS, IS FREE

CONTACT: (651) 962-5858