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(l-r) Ed Mikenas, bass; ​
Glenn Buck, piano;
Ernest Deane, trumpet; 
Malcolm Dentler, percussion; 
and Albert Mallet, sax.


Tickets are $10 each and can be purchased through Lynchburg Tickets by clicking on the logo below.
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CLICK ABOVE FOR TICKETS

Tickets may also be purchased at the event
starting at 1:30 p.m. (cash & checks only). 

Ticket price includes one cup of coffee (or soda)
from Baine’s Books & Coffee. 
​Food also is available for purchase.

(Bringing your own chairs and a
​small table is appreciated.) 

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! 

Amherst Glebe Arts Response, Inc. (AGAR) regrets having to cancel all upcoming programs through May owing to COVID-19. We would have loved to have been able to present these programs, but restrictions by government, senior citizen organizations, schools, universities, religious organizations, and arts organization on the use of buildings, restrictions of visitors, and numbers of people allowed in a group have made it seem ill advised to try to present any concerts before June. AGAR's Board of Directors will meet mid-May to see if we can present any programs in June, or if all concerts will have to be postponed until the 2020-2021 AGAR season.
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2019-2020 CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES

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AGAR AMHERST
​JAVA & JAZZ

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Chris Magee
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Lew Taylor
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Eric Hollandsworth
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Larry Scott
Chris Magee and His
Jazz Quartet:
“The Blue Note Years”

​Sunday, Sept. 15, 2019 at 4 p.m.
Second Stage Amherst;
194 Second Street, Amherst

Chris Magee, trumpet; Eric Hollandsworth, bass;
Lew Taylor, piano; and Larry Scott, drummer.
Music by composers Nat Adderly, Clifford Brown, Tadd Dameron, Kenny Dorham, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Hank Mobley, Lee Morgan, Wayne Shorter, Horace Silver, and Herbbie Hancock.


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Adelaide Muir Trombetta
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Domenico Luca Trombetta
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Tad Hardin
“Sounds of Italy”
Sunday, Oct. 20, 2019 at 4 p.m.
Amherst Presbyterian Church;
163 Second Street, Amherst

Come join us for “Sounds of Italy,” a musical tour of Italy that showcases the best Italian music from classical to popular. Husband and wife duo, Adelaide Muir Trombetta, soprano, and Domenico Luca Trombetta, violin and viola, with special guest Tad Hardin, piano, will transport listeners to the sounds of Italy featuring special favorites including “O mio babbino caro,” “Volare,” and music from theAcademy Award-winning film, “Life is Beautiful.” Be sure to bring your voices, too, as we invite you to sing with us on what is sure to be a memorable evening of Italian music!

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Carol Williams,
​Virtuoso Organist

Sunday, Nov. 3, 2019 at 4 p.m.
Emmanuel United Methodist Church;
401 N. Main Street, Amherst

British-born Carol Williams brings her special brand of classical, modern and original music to the Bedient Organ Company pipe organ at Emmanuel. Carol is known for her diversity, elegance and humor. She has played worldwide from Notre Dame, Paris; to Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles and Westminster Abbey, London. Program composers include Bach, Sousa, Brubeck and Carol Williams.

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David R. McCormick
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Brian Kay
“Music for Twelfth Night 2020”
Sunday, Jan. 5, 2020 at 4 p.m.
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church;
670 Patrick Henry Hwy, Amherst

Amherst favorites baroque violinist David R. McCormick and vocalist and lutenist Brian Kay of Early Music Access Project present seasonal music for the Twelfth Night of Christmas.

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Sophie Delphis
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Anna Billias
“What the Living do:
A Journey Through Song”

Sunday, Feb. 16, 2020 at 3 p.m.
Memorial Chapel (free to all);
Sweet Briar College

French mezzo-soprano Sophie Delphis and pianist Anna Billias in a concert featuring songs by Debussy and Ravel, as well as words of U.S. women poets set to music by composer Ricky Ian Gordon (b.1956). Don’t be surprised if some French Cabaret is heard, too!
This concert is in collaboration with the Janet Lowrey Gager Community Concert Series. No ticket is required.

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Yevgeniy Dovgalyuk
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Cassandra Hibbard
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David Feldman
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Tad Hardin
Olivier Messiaen’s
“Quartet for the End of Time” 

Sunday, March 8, 2020 at 4 p.m.
Northminster Ecumenical Church;
106 Clearview Rd., Madison Heights

Featuring Yevgeniy Dovgalyuk, violin; David Feldman, cello (permanent members of LIYA String Quartet); with Cassandra Hibbard, clarinet; and Tad Hardin, piano. This notable chamber work was composed and first performed in 1941 at a Nazi detainment camp, while composer Olivier Messiaen was a prisoner. Musicologist and pianist Naomi Amos will give a pre-concert talk about the work.

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l-r Yevgeniy Dovgalyuk, Christi Salisbury, David Feldman, Luca Trombetta
LIYA String Quartet:
Music for Holy Week: Haydn’s “Seven Last Words of Christ”

TBD
Grace Episcopal Church;
1934 Crabtree Falls Hwy., Massies Mill

Performers are Christi Salisbury and Yevgeniy Dovgalyuk, violins; Domenico Luca Trombetta, viola; and David Feldman, cello. Religiously themed music, including “The Seven Last Words of Christ,” Franz Joseph Haydn’s setting of his work for string quartet.

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Dudley Raine IV
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Issei Herr
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Brian Daurelle
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Hattie Ahn
opus87 piano quartet:
​“Music of the Americas” 

Reschedule for next season
Emmanuel United Methodist Church;
401 N. Main Street, Amherst

Dudley Raine IV, viola; Brian Daurelle, piano; Issei Herr, Cello; and Hattie Ahn, violin; lead a program of music by 20th- and 21st-century composers from Argentina, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Uruguay.

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ALKEMIE: “Diana’s Hunt: Songs of the Bestiary”
TBD
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Amherst Presbyterian Church
163 Second Street, Amherst

Tracy Cowart (mezzo-soprano and harp), Elena Mullins (soprano and percussion), Sian Ricketts (soprano and recorders), David McCormick (vielle), and Niccolo Seligmann (vielle and percussion). Guest composer and keyboard: Elliot Cole.
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Alkemie joins forces with composer/performer Elliot Cole in performances of new arrangements of stunning music from 14th-century Italy and newly-composed repertoire inspired by the medieval bestiary. Vielle, harp, recorders, percussion and voices evoke soaring birds, slithering reptiles, wondrous creatures, and the goddesses Diana and Venus. Serving as both mythology and Christian allegory, these fantastic visions of the animal kingdom continue to provoke the modern as well as the medieval imagination.

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In 2019-2020 AGAR inaugurates a monthly jazz series featuring local professional
​musicians with help from
Second Stage Amherst
and Baine’s Books & Coffee.


All events 6:30-8:30 p.m. 
​Admission Fee  $10*

Second Stage Amherst,
194 Second Street, Amherst


*Admission fee of $10 includes one cup of coffee, with food for purchase from
​Baine’s Books & Coffee, Amherst.



FALL 2019

Flat Five Jazz:
A Modern Interpretation
of Old Ideas

Saturday, Aug. 24, 2019
Josh Barling, trumpet; Justin Berkley, tenor sax; Graham Harris, alto sax; Matthew Billings, piano; Eric Hollandsworth, bass, and
​Andrew Wert, drums. 


Quintana
Saturday, Sept. 28, 2019
Albert Mallet, alto & soprano sax;
Ernest Deane, trumpet & flugel;
Glenn Buck, piano; Ed Mikenas, bass; and
Malcolm Dentler, percussion. 


The Joseph Henson Jazz Project
Saturday, Oct. 26, 2019
Joseph Henson, saxophone;
Michael Kramer, guitar; Neal Perrine, bass;
and Daniel Kelly II, drums.


​The Quantum Mechanics
Saturday, Nov. 23, 2019
Ed Mikenas, console steel guitar;
Worth Proffitt, drums; and
​Andy Aeschbacher, bass.



SPRING 2020
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Justin Schroder “Conversations”
Saturday, Jan. 25, 2020

Straight-ahead jazz by Justin Schroder, guitar,
and Josh Brinkman, sax.


Adam Larrabee and Ross Martin
"Roots and Jazz"

Friday, Feb. 21, 2020
Adam Larrabee, guitar and banjo and Ross Martin, acoustic and electric Guitar.  Ross plays guitar onstage three times a week in Broadway’s Tony-Award winning Best Musical 2019 “Hadestown,” and last season played guitar onstage at the Public Theatre in “Girl from the North Country” featuring Bob Dylan’s music. Adam Larrabee teaches jazz and improv guitar at JMU, jazz and classical guitar at VCU and banjo and mandolin at UVA, and plays locally and nationally with numerous ensembles.
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Flat Five Jazz:
A Modern Interpretation
of Old Ideas

TBD
Josh Barling, trumpet; Justin Berkley, tenor sax; Graham Harris, alto sax; Matthew Billings, piano; Eric Hollandsworth, bass, and
​Andrew Wert, drums. ​
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Gus Miller and Musicians
TBD
Well-known Lynchburg jazz vocalist and
“crooner” Gus Miller.


Quintana
TBD
Albert Mallet, alto & soprano sax;
Ernest Deane, trumpet & flugel; Glenn Buck, piano, Ed Mikenas, bass; and Malcolm Dentler, percussion.



The AGAR Amherst Java & Jazz Series was curated by Ernest Deane.

Events are subject to change.

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TICKET INFORMATION

AGAR CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES
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ADULTS/SENIORS:
Series of nine concerts:, one of which is free to all:
  • Season Tickets = $105 for 8 performance
  • Half-Season Tickets = $50 for 4 performance
  • Individual Tickets = $15 per performance

STUDENTS:
  • Kindergarten-12th grade = $2 per performance
  • College students = $5 per performance

FAMILY TICKET:
  • Up to 6 family members = $24  per performance (Family tickets must include at least one adult and be ordered in advance of the event at
    ​434-989-3215.)

TO ORDER:
  • All tickets can be ordered
    ​online through 
    ​
    www.lynchburgtickets.com/agar.           
  • Tickets may be purchased at the door starting 45 minutes before event. Only cash and checks accepted. 
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AGAR AMHERST JAVA & JAZZ
  • Tickets may be purchased at the door starting 45 minutes before event. Only cash and checks accepted.
Events are subject to change.
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The AGAR Amherst Music Series is presented by Amherst Glebe Arts Response, Inc. (AGAR) in part with support from the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts,  Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation, Centra Foundation, and the Piepho Charitable Fund, and donations from corporations and individuals. Lynn Kable is producer of the series, and Anthony Harvey is program development director. Marketing in 2019-2020 is by Catherine Bost and Heidi Reynolds. The AGAR Board of directors includes Lillian Burks, Melodie Fletcher, Lynn Andrew Hanson, Edward Kable, Lynn Kable, Donna Meeks, Julia Paris, and Linda Zabloski. AGAR’s Board of Advisors members are Janice Augustine, Sandra Esposito, Jean Higginbotham, Beverly Jones, and Amelia Moody, PhD.
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Amherst Glebe Arts Response, Inc. (AGAR)   |   PO Box 117, Clifford, VA 24533   |   (434) 989-3215
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