The Beggar Boys

Music at St. Alban’s has announced the schedule for its fifth season, with a lineup that includes a September Bachfest, the Beggar Boys’ annual Celtic Christmas concert, the return of countertenor Ian Howell, and other vocal offerings. Season tickets, with a discount on seats, are on sale through Sept. 12 for the concerts, which take place at St. Alban’s Episcopal Church, 301 Caldwell Lane, off Concord Road.

The series is supported in part through a Cultural Project Grant from the Arts & Science Council and the Grassroots Program of the North Carolina Arts Council, a state agency. For the full schedule …

Sunday, September 21, 2008, 3:00 p.m.
BACHFEST III
Our fifth season opens with music by three great baroque “B”s – Bach, Buxtehude, and Böhm. The St. Alban’s Bach Festival Orchestra and nationally-acclaimed soloists will perform Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto #4 and the Coffee Cantata, along with Georg Böhm’s Orchestral Suite in D Major and cantatas by Dietrich Buxthude, one of the greatest composers of the generation before Bach. A gala concert not to be missed.

Steven Oosting

Sunday, November 2, 2008, 3:00 p.m.
Beethoven to Broadway
Live from New York! Tenor Steven Oosting and Russian-American pianist Mark Pakman perform arias and songs by from the concert hall, opera house, and Broadway stage. The program includes works by Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, Bernstein, Sondheim, Rogers and Hammerstein, and more.

Saturday, December 13, 2008, 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, December 14, 2008, 3:00 p.m.
The Beggar Boys: A Celtic Christmas
Warm up your family’s holiday season with traditional Irish and Scottish music including favorite carols and spirited, energetic dance tunes. The Beggar Boys feature the incredible double fiddle team of Michael Albert and Larry Young and the captivating vocals of Kate Minogue. This Boston-based band will be joined by Irish step dancers from Charlotte’s Rince na h’Eireann academy of Irish Dance. A portion of the proceeds from this concert will benefit the Ada Jenkins Center.

Farallon Recorder Quartet

Sunday, January 25, 2009, 3:00 p.m.
The Farallon Recorder Quartet
Renaissance to Jazz: A Recorder Retrospective. The Farallon Recorder Quartet gives inspiring performances of a vast and varied repertoire extending across time and genre. Bach and Gershwin, Ockeghem and Serocki; sedate, wild, sublime, cutting edge and traditional, Farallon Recorder Quartet does it all with style. The quartet performs on numerous types of recorder from renaissance to modern, from 6 inches to 6 feet tall, exploring the full range of the instruments’ abilities. A great concert for the entire family.

Sunday, March 1, 2009, 3:00 p.m.
Ian Howell, countertenor, with Tableau: Handel’s Inheritance
Join Ian Howell and Tableau as they explore the music behind the man who wrote Messiah. Georg Frideric Handel was the greatest German composer of Italian music ever to work in England. Enjoy music for voice and strings by composers who directly influenced the master, including Corelli, Keiser, Steffani, and Mattheson – and music by Handel including the Italian cantatas on which he modeled some of Messiah’s most famous choruses.

Sunday, April 5, 2009, 3:00 p.m.
VOX and friends, David Tang, director
Charlotte’s professional singing sensation – VOX – brings its trademark concert of hope and brotherhood to St. Alban’s in a diverse program of vocal music, including foot stompin’, high-energy Gospel music with some of the region’s best Gospel musicians. Under the direction of David Tang and Peppie Calvar and performing Classical, Folk, Jazz, World and Gospel music, VOX literally brings you the world by performing the best in vocal music in an eclectic performance that you’ll never forget.

WANT TO GO?

All concerts take place at St. Alban’s Episcopal Church, 301 Caldwell Lane, Davidson, NC 28036.
Admission: $15 general, $10 students (under 21) and seniors (over 65); children under 10 FREE.
Season ticket discount: through Sept. 12, $54 for all six concerts, or 40% off the single-ticket price.
Phone information and season ticket order forms: 704-941-0650
Email: concerts@gostalbans.org
Web: www.saintalbans-davidson.org/musicatstalbans.htm