Music Notes - July 10

On Sunday morning at 10:45 am Sue Vines and Cathie Buschek perform a witty set of piano pieces at the prelude and postlude. These pieces by Gabriel Faure are entitled, “Dolly”, a collection of six piano four-hand duets that, like Robert Schumann’s “Scenes from Childhood” (for solo piano), reflex childhood experiences. The preludes portray the innocence of a garden full of flowers and the child Dolly’s lullaby. The buoyant postlude, “Mi-a-ou” is often mistakenly attributed to a family cat. The title actually refers to two-year-old Dolly’s attempt to say her brother’s name, “Monsieur Raoul.” These wonderful pieces are played on our new piano recently purchased by Friends of Music. This Yamaha 5C-3 piano is an upgrade and will permit not only better piano sounds for worship but also attract piano artists in forthcoming concerts. The previous piano has been moved to the undercroft and the piano it replaced is now available for sale.

In July, beautiful special music at the prelude, anthems and communion will be offered by our talented parish musicians: Katy and Rich Williams, Bryan Sable, our Music Assistant, Sam Viggiano (who sang so beautifully at his sister’s June Ordination to the Deaconate), Kathleen Hendricks with choir in Vivaldi’s “Domine deus” from Gloria, Susan Vines and Cathie Buschek in works for Piano-four hands, Alice Lee in an aria from Bach’s St. John Passion, Chris Thompson singing an American Spiritual, and Ginnie Schaap in voice and on piccolo!

Performance Jazz Camp

Our annual Jazz camp led by Saxophone Jazz artist, Lee Robinson will take place in July!

Performance Jazz Camp (PJC) 2016
Camp location: St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
1066 Washington Road, Mt. Lebanon, PA 15228
Monday July 18 through Friday July 22
Concert Tuesday, July 26^st at 7:00 pm

Performance Jazz Camp is an exciting and innovative jazz camp program. Its focus is small groups, quartets, trios and quintets quartets. The student range is elementary, middle school and high school. Individual instrumentalists and vocalists are welcome to apply.

Individuals and groups may register for PJC. The individuals who are accepted will be assigned to a jazz group to participate in the camp and closing performance.

Performance Jazz Camp focus includes performing, a great amount of playing, group interaction, performance coaching, programming, guest jazz artists (TBA) for Master Class demonstrations and having fun while learning! The PJC concludes with a student concert.