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Gottschalk
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“THE TRANSCONTINENTAL LIFE AND
MULTICULTURAL MUSICAL INFLUENCES OF
LOUIS MOREAU GOTTSCHALK”

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Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869) was the first American virtuoso pianist to receive international recognition and enthusiastic acclaim.

Discover Gottschack’s music in a series of three concerts:


  • 7:30 pm February 4, 2023
    at Snidow Chapel, University of Lynchburg

    “Louis Moreau Gottschalk’s Americana“ Gottschalk’s Musical Journey from Stephen Foster and James Hewitt’s Influences to his own Influences on Early Ragtime and Jazz” Dr. Jeremy Craft with the Lynchburg Singers, a UofL Chorus; Concert Pianist Naomi Amos; ”Soulsters“ Ann Mitchell and Ronnie Shoultz; and 
    renwoned jazz pianist Dr. Weldon Hill and double bassist Michael Hawkins. 

  • 7:30 pm April 15, 2023 
    at Mills Chapel, Sweet Briar College
    “Louis Moreau Gottschalk’s Caribbean and South American Adventures: How Travels Changed His Music, His Continued Romanticism, and His influences on Early Latin Jazz.” Chris Magee and Los Gatos, David Sandoval, Naomi Amos. 

  • Previous Concert:
    7:30 pm November 5, 2022 
    ​at Mills Chapel, Sweet Briar Chapel

    “Gottschalk Discovers Paris and Europe Discovers Gottschalk’s Unique American Style of Composition and Virtuosic Piano Techniques” Naomi Amos, Giovanni Perez, LIYA String Quartet

Presented by Amherst Glebe Arts Response, Inc. in collaboration with the Music Departments
​of Sweet Briar College
and the University of Lynchburg.


​Nightcaps
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AGAR, in collaboration with Second Stage | Amherst, presents Nightcaps, a new musical drama by lyricist Brooke Vandervelde and composer Richard Rose. Nightcaps is being developed in three workshops on November 12, 2022, February 18 and April 1, 2023. Workshop performances are free and open to the public. 

For the schedule and more information:
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https://www.nightcaps.show/
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Richard Rose’s recent opera Monte and Pinky was performed by Capitol Opera Richmond at the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia. A former teacher, Brooke Vandervelde is now the music director at Ascension Episcopal Church, Amherst, where she also leads a bi-weekly Gospel Jam. Her husband John, who will design the physical environment for Nightcaps, taught a shop program in Amherst County Public Schools for twenty years.
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​AGAR AMHERST
JAVA & JAZZ
2022-2023 Series
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Second Stage | Amherst
 194 2nd Street, Amherst VA 24521
434-941-0997
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2022-2023 J&J SEASON


JANUARY
​ J&J CONCERT
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“Quintana
All-Stars Jazz Band: Celebrating One of Our Own
”

Edward Mikenas, composer & bassist; Al Mallet, saxophonist; Ernest Deane, trumpet and flugelhorn; Glenn Buck, winds;
Worth Proffitt, drums; and
​Gary Meisner, piano.

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Saturday, Jan. 28, 2023
​6-8 pm
Live at Second Stage | Amherst
​
194 2nd Street, Amherst, VA 24521
Tickets: (Includes one free cup of coffee, water, or soda, with food for purchase from
​Baine’s Books & Coffee)
  • $12 adults
  • $6 students 
  • Pay at the door, cash or checks only; doors open at 5:30 pm.​
  • Advance tickets available at Eventbrite. Click on button below. 
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Edward Mikenas
The Quintana All-Stars Jazz Band will salute the work of Edward Mikenas, composer, vocalist and bassist for the group, whose original compositions will form the core of the concert. “We play a lot of tunes by other people,” said Ernest Deane, artistic director of the group; “I thought we should play some really good songs by one of our own.”
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Al Mallet
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Glenn Buck
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Gary Meisner
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Ernest Deane
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Worth Proffitt
The Quintana All-Stars Jazz Band was formed late in their careers by Al Mallet, saxophonist, and Ernest Deane, who plays trumpet and flugelhorn for the group. These two have been playing together since the 1950s, when they attended Dunbar High School in Lynchburg. Mikenas said he has been playing with Ernest Deane since 1989 when he first moved to Lynchburg, and that he met and heard Worth Proffitt, youngest current band member, before then when he lived in Augusta County. “I like to say that we are the oldest living jazz group in Greater Lynchburg,” says Mikenas, who has played bass with the group since 2016. The other current band members are Glenn Buck on winds, Worth Proffitt on drums, and Gary Meisner on piano.
Mikenas was brought up in rural Northern New York State and graduated from SUNY Potsdam with a BS in music education. He also has a Master’s degree in Music Performance from the Manhattan School of Music, NYC. As a studio musician based in NYC, he toured with Skitch Henderson, Larry Elgart, Jay and the Americans, Scarlet Rivera, Esther Phillips, and the Alive Company. And he played venues that include Saturday Night Live, Carnegie Hall, Madison Square Garden, the Apollo, the Felt Forum, the Spectrum, and the Troubadour. Mikenas played in the orchestra pit for “Grease,” “Pippin,” “Godspell,” and “The Magic Show” on Broadway and was a musician and actor off Broadway with the La Mama Experimental Theatre. He taught bass at Radford University for 19 years and now, when not composing or playing his own work, serves as adjunct Bass Professor at the University of Lynchburg, coaches a jazz ensemble at the Virginia Episcopal School, and is Organist and Choir Master of Amherst Presbyterian Church.
 
Among the songs featured at the Amherst Java and Jazz performance will be “Too Much,” which was written in 1999 and dedicated to the memory of the late Henry Powell, a member of Piedmont Jazz and a teacher in Lynchburg. Mikenas says that Powell’s favorite expression of appreciation was “That’s Too Much;” so he wrote this song as a memorial for Powell for Ernest Deane to play on Flugelhorn.
 
Several pieces by Mikenas reference cooking and food. He says, “Early jazz parallels the kitchen. We say the band ‘cooks’ or that a group is ‘hot’ or ‘smoking,’ My tune ‘Smoothie’ refers to an old-fashioned candy bar, and I wrote ‘Light and Crispy’ as a salute to my wife Lu Ann, one day after she made some killer waffles for breakfast!” Opening the show will be “Terry’s Groove,” composed by another Quintana All-Star, Gary Meisner, a pianist, and arranger who arranged for the Hal Leonard Music Publishers in New York for about 40 years. Rounding out the concert are works of Charles Mingus, Tommy Wolf, A. Dubin, and Harry Warren.
 

​Presented by AGAR 
in collaboration with
​Second Stage | Amherst
and Baine’s Books & Coffee
Series Curated by Ernest Deane
EVENTS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE.
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Amherst Glebe Arts Response, Inc. (AGAR) arts and Humanities Projects in 2022-2023 are funded as follows:
 
AGAR’s concerts are made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Virginia Commission for the Arts, and The Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation, with marketing assistance from SHARE Greater Lynchburg. The Louis Moreau Gottschalk project is supported in part by the Virginia Commission for the Arts, which receives support from the Virginia General Assembly and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. AGAR’s arts programs for individuals receiving meals delivered at home are also funded in part by Amherst Woman’s Club.
 
The performances of Grant Gordy Duo and Cecilia Smith Ensemble, presented in collaboration with Gifts of Art, Michigan Medicine and VCU Health/Arts in Healthcare are supported by Chamber Music America’s Presenter Consortium for Jazz (PCJ) program, funded through the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. AGAR’s concerts through PCJ are delivered online as a “thank you” during the COVID-19 times to medical and non-medical staff and to patients at Centra Health, Central Virginia Alliance for Community Living, area nursing facilities, and UVA Health.
 
AGAR’s Virginia History Programs are supported in part by the National Endowment
​for the Humanities (NEH) and Virginia Humanities (VH).
 
Funding for a VH/SHARP grant to AGAR has been provided by Virginia Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) as part of the American Rescue Plan (ARP) and the NEH Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan (SHARP) initiative.
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        • Joseph Henson Jazz Project
        • “Winter Stories and Songs”
        • The Joseph Henson Jazz Project
        • Quintana All-Stars
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        • Isaac Williams Quartet
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