Free Virtual YouTube Concert
recoreded live Jan 30,
for Youtube broadcast.
Concert remains up on Youtube until Feb 27
at NOON EST
recoreded live Jan 30,
for Youtube broadcast.
Concert remains up on Youtube until Feb 27
at NOON EST
Lynchburg‘s beloved Quintana
All-Stars Jazz Band
play a VIRTUAL evening of straight-ahead jazz.
Band members are
L-R: Ed Mikenas, bass;
Glenn Buck, keyboards;
Ernest Deane, trumpet;
Malcolm Dentler, drums; and Al Mallet sax.
Premiere of Ed Mikenas’ newest piece,
“99 in the Shade.”
All-Stars Jazz Band
play a VIRTUAL evening of straight-ahead jazz.
Band members are
L-R: Ed Mikenas, bass;
Glenn Buck, keyboards;
Ernest Deane, trumpet;
Malcolm Dentler, drums; and Al Mallet sax.
Premiere of Ed Mikenas’ newest piece,
“99 in the Shade.”
SONGS PERFORMED INCLUDE:
"In a Mellow Tone" -- Duke Ellington
"Black Coffee" -- Sonny Burke
"99 in the Shade" -- Ed Mikenas
"Old Devil Moon" -- Burton Lane
Chega de Saudade ("No More Blues)
--Antonio Carlos Jobim
"Cute" -- Neil Hefti
"Shiny Stockings" -- Frank Foster
"In a Mellow Tone" -- Duke Ellington
"Black Coffee" -- Sonny Burke
"99 in the Shade" -- Ed Mikenas
"Old Devil Moon" -- Burton Lane
Chega de Saudade ("No More Blues)
--Antonio Carlos Jobim
"Cute" -- Neil Hefti
"Shiny Stockings" -- Frank Foster
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!
The Arts: Music
“In Fortune’s Hands:
Troubadours Past and Present”
Virtual Concert Premiere
January 24, 2021, at 4 pm
Link stays up until
February 7 at Midnight
Tickets:
$15 General Admission
$5 Students
$15 General Admission
$5 Students
Amherst Glebe Arts Response
IN COLLABORATION WITH EARLY MUSIC ACCESS PROJECT PRESENTS
Brian Kay
David McCormick
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.
Events are subject to change.
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, the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation, Centra Foundation, and the Piepho Charitable Fund, and donations from corporations and individuals. Lynn Kable is producer of the series.
