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Chamber Music America Presenters Consortium for Jazz Program 
CHAMBER MUSIC AMERICA funded AMHERST GLEBE ARTS RESPONSE * with VCU Health and University of Michigan’s Michigan Medicine
“Gifts of Art” THROUGH ITS PRESENTERS CONSORTIUM FOR JAZZ PROGRAM. Two major virtual jazz concerts will be streamed from New York studios and made available for the purpose of reducing stress, decreasing isolation and building resilience in individuals particularly affected by COVID-19. These include medical and non-medical staff, patients, families and volunteersd in hospitals and nursing facilities, “learners” (medical and nursing students). The concerts will also be streamed to individuals with disabilities or illnesses who are receiving home-delivered meals and home health services, as well as to their caregivers. Nightcaps 
AGAR presents Nightcaps, a new musical drama by lyricist Brooke Vandervelde and composer Richard Rose, set at a college in the Upper South in the present, with flashbacks to 1910 and 1940.
Nightcaps will be developed in a series of four one- and two-scene workshops at Second Stage | Amherst, 194 Second Street, on the dates listed below. We are seeking professionals and students to participate in the workshops as singers, set builders, and musicians. For information, please email Brooke at Rivula@gmail.com. Nightcaps 2022-2023 Workshops:
A full performance will be held at Second Stage | Amherst:
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. (Graphic: Graphics Fairy) Gottschalk 
“THE TRANSCONTINENTAL LIFE AND
MULTICULTURAL MUSICAL INFLUENCES OF LOUIS MOREAU GOTTSCHALK” 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:
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SEPTEMBER
J&J CONCERT 
Isaac Williams Ensemble
Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022 6-8 pm Live at Second Stage | Amherst 194 2nd Street, Amherst, VA 24521 Isaac Williams and Senobia Smith are two of the exciting young jazz musicians in Greater Lynchburg and the Shenandoah Valley. With Isaac’s ensemble they will bring an evening of originals and standards from the 1960s to the present. AGAR and Second Stage | Amherst are happy to welcome them back to Amherst Java & Jazz. Isaac Williams, a native of Lynchburg, VA, got his start in music at the age of 8 when his parents purchased him a toy keyboard. By 11, Isaac was playing for his church and at local venues. In 2019 Isaac debuted his Trinity Jazz Trio to a packed house at the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Lynchburg. Since then, Isaac’s trio has played at venues such as The Flat 9 Club, Stonebridge Fall Festival, and District Winery in Washington D.C. Last season his instrumental trio, along with featured vocalist Senobia Smith, played for Amherst Java and Jazz. Isaac also played in the season as a sideman to saxophonist Joseph Henson.
Senobia Smith is a renowned jazz singer who has performed in venues as far east as Italy, south as the Caribbean, north as Alaska, and west as California. Senobia’s voice transcends her listeners out of space and time to bask in the ambiance of her enchanting sound. Born and raised in Columbus, Ohio, Senobia studied music since age nine and attended prestigious music programs including Shenandoah University’s Music Conservatory. Senobia has her own trio, Senobia & Friends. She has also performed as a solo artist with jazz orchestras, big bands, jazz combos, concert bands, and international ensembles as a U.S. Army musician and as a civilian. Isaac, Senobia, and the ensemble also will perform on February 3, 2023, for AGAR’s Louis Moreau Gottschalk Project at the University of Lynchburg’s Snidow Chapel. Gottschalk was a 19th-century American pianist who hailed from New Orleans and had a strong influence on early jazz. Presented by AGAR in collaboration with Second Stage | Amherst and Baine’s Books & Coffee Series Curated by Ernest Deane EVENTS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE. |
EVENTS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE.
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.
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.
Amherst Glebe Arts Response, Inc. (AGAR) | 156 Patrick Henry Highway, Amherst, VA 24521
US Mail: PO Box 117, Clifford, VA 24533 | (434) 989-3215
Email: AmherstGlebeArts@gmail.com | Facebook: AmherstGlebeArtsResponse
US Mail: PO Box 117, Clifford, VA 24533 | (434) 989-3215
Email: AmherstGlebeArts@gmail.com | Facebook: AmherstGlebeArtsResponse
