OUR NEXT CONCERT:

Facade, an Entertainment of poetry and sly tunes

Sun. November 20, 2011 / 2 pm / First Congregational Church, 309 Highland Road, Ithaca-- NOTE this new venue! Tickets available at the door, $8, or family pass $22.

William Walton composed a set of musical miniatures in a wide variety of styles, from soft shoe to hornpipe to haunting melodies, to mesh with the expressive, sometimes hilarious, and generally nonsensical poetry of his friend the English poet Edith Sitwell. The resulting "Entertainment", as they called it, is full of hummable tunes and memorable lines, a fascinating melding of spoken word and music, possibly the beginning of Rap, and a true delight.



Featuring: Patrice Pastore, professor of voice at Ithaca College, narrator, with Laura Campbell, flute; John Greenly, clarinet, Keli Price, Trumpet, Joe Ford, Saxophone, Zach Sweet, cello, Emily Ickes, percussion, the ensemble conducted by Ubaldo Valli.