Virtual Concert Premiere
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Brian Kay
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David McCormick
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Brian Kay is a favorite of audiences in Amherst, where he performed twice for AGAR at Second Stage as the lead singer of Ayreheart. He also plays with Grammy-winning Apollo’s Fire. Before the pandemic, Brian performed with David McCormick for AGAR and Early Music Access Project at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church Clifford.
David McCormick, another favorite, was one of the founders of Three Notch’d Road in Charlottesville, and now plays with Alkemie Medieval Music Ensemble, is Artistic Director of Early Music Access Project and Executive Director of Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival.
For In Fortune's Hands: Music of Troubadours Past and Present, McCormick and Kay plan to take on the history of music, while pulling down historic and replica instruments from Kay’s wall. “We are always using instruments played long ago, said McCormick “But sometimes we are mixing them digitally to make a modern sound.”
Kay said in rehearsal, “I am singing the oldest song ever found with both its text and musical notation. It is called The Epitaph of Seikolos, and was carved into a first or second-century tombstone in Tralles, near what is today Aydin, Turkey. I’m going to sing, and play on a replica of an ancient lyre I made” says Kay, “Lyres were made with turtle shells. Lutes and later instruments I play kept their turtle shell shape, and have a curved back. I was able to find a turtle shell for sale in a taxidermy shop and made my lyre from that.”
Another ancient instrument Kay will pull from the wall is a modern copy of the world’s oldest surviving lute, which is from Egypt. McCormick will play an instrumental solo on viele, an early ancestor of the violin, from Codex Faenza, one of the earliest European purely instrumentalist pieces, preserved from 1400 in a library in Faenza, near Ravenna, Italy.
Kay will perform with the Muslim oud, very similar to the lute, brought to Andalusia, Southern Spain, when the Moors conquered the area in 711 A.D. and began musical collaborations with Spanish noblemen at Court. He will also play a solo on theorbo, a long-necked lute with a second pegbox, developed in Italy in the 16th century.
As a celebration of the post-12th night Season, Kay and McCormick will sing and play pieces that were favorites in last year’s concert, from the “Cantigas de Santa Maria” (Ode to St Mary, the Mother of Jesus), a collection of 420 thirteenth- century songs written in the medieval Galician-Portugese language.
David McCormick, another favorite, was one of the founders of Three Notch’d Road in Charlottesville, and now plays with Alkemie Medieval Music Ensemble, is Artistic Director of Early Music Access Project and Executive Director of Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival.
For In Fortune's Hands: Music of Troubadours Past and Present, McCormick and Kay plan to take on the history of music, while pulling down historic and replica instruments from Kay’s wall. “We are always using instruments played long ago, said McCormick “But sometimes we are mixing them digitally to make a modern sound.”
Kay said in rehearsal, “I am singing the oldest song ever found with both its text and musical notation. It is called The Epitaph of Seikolos, and was carved into a first or second-century tombstone in Tralles, near what is today Aydin, Turkey. I’m going to sing, and play on a replica of an ancient lyre I made” says Kay, “Lyres were made with turtle shells. Lutes and later instruments I play kept their turtle shell shape, and have a curved back. I was able to find a turtle shell for sale in a taxidermy shop and made my lyre from that.”
Another ancient instrument Kay will pull from the wall is a modern copy of the world’s oldest surviving lute, which is from Egypt. McCormick will play an instrumental solo on viele, an early ancestor of the violin, from Codex Faenza, one of the earliest European purely instrumentalist pieces, preserved from 1400 in a library in Faenza, near Ravenna, Italy.
Kay will perform with the Muslim oud, very similar to the lute, brought to Andalusia, Southern Spain, when the Moors conquered the area in 711 A.D. and began musical collaborations with Spanish noblemen at Court. He will also play a solo on theorbo, a long-necked lute with a second pegbox, developed in Italy in the 16th century.
As a celebration of the post-12th night Season, Kay and McCormick will sing and play pieces that were favorites in last year’s concert, from the “Cantigas de Santa Maria” (Ode to St Mary, the Mother of Jesus), a collection of 420 thirteenth- century songs written in the medieval Galician-Portugese language.
Virtual YouTube Concert
6 pm Jan 30, 2021 to
Feb 27 at NOON EST
TICKETS:
$10 General Admission
$5 Students
6 pm Jan 30, 2021 to
Feb 27 at NOON EST
TICKETS:
$10 General Admission
$5 Students
Lynchburg‘s beloved Quintana
All-Stars Jazz Band will play a VIRTUAL evening of straight-ahead jazz. Band members are Al Mallet sax; Ernest Deane, trumpet; Malcolm Dentler, drums; Glenn Buck, keyboards; and Ed Mikenas, bass.
Premiere of Ed Mikenas’ newest piece,“99 in the Shade.”
All-Stars Jazz Band will play a VIRTUAL evening of straight-ahead jazz. Band members are Al Mallet sax; Ernest Deane, trumpet; Malcolm Dentler, drums; Glenn Buck, keyboards; and Ed Mikenas, bass.
Premiere of Ed Mikenas’ newest piece,“99 in the Shade.”
Ernest Deane (trumpet and flugel) was born in 1941 in Lynchburg, where he grew up and played in jazz bands while at Dunbar High School. He credits his lifetime love of jazz to a cousin, Thomas Fitch, who let him listen, at age eight, to records by artists from Charlie Parker to Gene Krupa and Louie Bellson. Ernest has played in combo bands in Virginia and North Carolina, currently The Houseband of VA and Quintana. He earned a Bachelor of Music from Virginia State U. and assisted music students at Linkhorne Middle School.
Al Mallet Jr. (alto and Soprano saxophone) has been a freelance musician for the past 60 years. He was a club musician in Washington, DC in the 1980s. In Lynchburg he has played with jazz groups including the Jives, the Twisters, Youth for Truth, and at Court Street Baptist Church. Mr. Mallet was a founding member of Quintana, formed by Phil McCarren 10 years ago.
Malcolm Dentler (percussion) hails from New York City. He proudly serves in the music ministry at St. Mark’s Baptist Church. Malcolm teaches percussion every Sunday at John Kortmulder Mindful Mountain Yoga, Second Stage Amherst.
Ed Mikenas (Bass) is organist/choir director for Amherst Presbyterian Church. He taught bass at Radford University, is the jazz ensemble coach for VES, and is adjunct bass professor University of Lynchburg. As a NYC studio bassist, he recorded and performed with artists including Skitch Henderson, the Larry Elgart Big Band, Esther Phillips, Little Anthony and the Imperials, Martha and the Vandellas, Scarlet Rivera, Rodney Dangerfield, Danny and the Juniors, and Mama Lion. He was bassist for the Joffrey Ballet Company, La Mama Experimental Theatre, and Broadway shows including Grease, Pippin, Godspell, and The Magic Show.
Glen Buck (keyboards) originally from Utica, NY, and early began playing with his father, a well-known musician in central New York. He studied classical saxophone and music education at Nazareth College, Rochester, NY, and later graduated from Vanderbilt University. He received a Doctorate in Special Education from University of Florida. He is a professor of special education at the University of Lynchburg (1993-present) and continues to play in bands throughout central Virginia. Mr. Buck enjoys his time with Quintana because of his love of jazz music!
Al Mallet Jr. (alto and Soprano saxophone) has been a freelance musician for the past 60 years. He was a club musician in Washington, DC in the 1980s. In Lynchburg he has played with jazz groups including the Jives, the Twisters, Youth for Truth, and at Court Street Baptist Church. Mr. Mallet was a founding member of Quintana, formed by Phil McCarren 10 years ago.
Malcolm Dentler (percussion) hails from New York City. He proudly serves in the music ministry at St. Mark’s Baptist Church. Malcolm teaches percussion every Sunday at John Kortmulder Mindful Mountain Yoga, Second Stage Amherst.
Ed Mikenas (Bass) is organist/choir director for Amherst Presbyterian Church. He taught bass at Radford University, is the jazz ensemble coach for VES, and is adjunct bass professor University of Lynchburg. As a NYC studio bassist, he recorded and performed with artists including Skitch Henderson, the Larry Elgart Big Band, Esther Phillips, Little Anthony and the Imperials, Martha and the Vandellas, Scarlet Rivera, Rodney Dangerfield, Danny and the Juniors, and Mama Lion. He was bassist for the Joffrey Ballet Company, La Mama Experimental Theatre, and Broadway shows including Grease, Pippin, Godspell, and The Magic Show.
Glen Buck (keyboards) originally from Utica, NY, and early began playing with his father, a well-known musician in central New York. He studied classical saxophone and music education at Nazareth College, Rochester, NY, and later graduated from Vanderbilt University. He received a Doctorate in Special Education from University of Florida. He is a professor of special education at the University of Lynchburg (1993-present) and continues to play in bands throughout central Virginia. Mr. Buck enjoys his time with Quintana because of his love of jazz music!
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AGAR’s programs in 2020-2021: Funding has been provided by Virginia Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) as part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act economic stabilization plan of 2020; The Virginia Commission for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, the Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation; and Amherst County Board of Supervisors CARES.
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US Mail: PO Box 117, Clifford, VA 24533 | (434) 989-3215
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US Mail: PO Box 117, Clifford, VA 24533 | (434) 989-3215
Email: AmherstGlebeArts@gmail.com | Facebook: AmherstGlebeArtsResponse
