2018-2019Season

P.O. Box 117 | Cliford, VA 24533434-989-3215

Amherstglebeartsresponse.org

Amherst Glebe Arts Response, Inc. (AGAR) is a non-profit arts and humanities organization

founded in Amherst, Virginia, in 2006. AGAR has been determined by the Internal Revenue Service to be a tax exempt public charity under section 501 (c) (3)

of the code. AGAR’s programs are made possible in part by grants from the Virginia Commission

for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation

and the Piepho Charitable Fund.

AGAR CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES TICKET INFORMATION

ADULTS/SENIORS: Series of seven chamber music concerts:

• Season Tickets = $90 for 7 performance• Half-Season Tickets = $52.50 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 through

www.lynchburgtickets.com or may be purchased at the door starting 45 minutes before each performance.

AGAR IN THE COMMUNITYHARPIST SUSAN CAROL is conducting her vocal and harp music program, Music Care, once a month through AGAR at CENTRA/Fairmont Crossing Health and Rehabilitation Center in Amherst. She performs for groups and at the bedsides of residents.

AGAR AT THE AMHERST COUNTY MUSEUM: In 2018-2019 AGAR will collaborate with the Museum on its Ghost Walk in October 2018, and on programs on Amherst County 20th-Century Historic Schools and Winton in the 20th Century.

AGAR AND THE AMHERST COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES: Programs such as lectures, concerts, poetry readings, or films.

POETRY WITH DELIVERED MEALS: AGAR sends poems by well-known American poets to individuals receiving home-delivered meals.

AGAR IN THE SCHOOLS: AGAR artists present in classrooms for K-12 students in Amherst and Bedford counties.

AGAR IN COLLEGE: AGAR presents performers and lectures at local colleges and universities.

AGAR PERFORMERS sing, play, dance and act in community events such as festivals, fairs, assisted living facilities, and civic and religious organizations in Greater Lynchburg.

AGAR DOCUMENTARIES: AGAR has conducted 133 first-person interviews about attending and teaching at 20th-century schools in Amherst County. These were edited into 21 documentary films for community showings.

Ask us about these programs, 434-989-3215 or www.amherstglebeartsresponse.org.

CONCERTSRONN MCFARLANE AND AYREHEART

Sunday, September 23, 2018 at 4 pmAt Second Stage Amherst, 194 Second St., Amherst, VA 24521Cosponsored by AGAR and Second Stage, this progres-sive folk trio plays Renaissance, Celtic, and original music. It is led by Grammy-nominated composer and lutenist Ronn McFarlane, with Willard Morris on fretless bass, violin, and colascione, and Mattias Rucht on percussion.

LIYA STRING QUARTET Sunday, October 21, 2018 at 4 pmAt Emmanuel United Methodist Church, 401 N. Main St., Amherst, VA 24521 LIYA will play Mozart’s Prussian Quartet 590 and Smetana’s String Quartet No. 1. Performers are Christi Salisbury and Yevgeniy Dovgalyuk, violins; Domenico Luca Trombetta, viola; and David Feldman, cello.

ALKEMIE: LOVE TO MY LIKING Sunday, November 4, 2018 at 4 pm At Amherst Presbyterian Church, 163 Second St., Amherst, VA 24521

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). Trouvères and troubadours of 13th-century Northern France created these captivating works of song and poetry.

PEACE AND JOY TO THE WORLD Saturday, December 15, 2018 at 7 pmAt Ascension Episcopal Church, 253 South Main St., Amherst, VA 24521 An evening of Christmas music by LIYA String Quartet with choir and audience participation. Dinner in parish hall at 5:30 p.m. for donation to Ascension furnace fund.

WINTERREISE Sunday, February 10, 2019 at 4 pm At Emmanuel United Methodist Church, 401 N. Main St., Amherst, VA 24521Winterreise D 911 (Winter Journey) is a song cycle for voice and piano by Franz Schubert. It is set to 24 poems by Wilhelm Müller. This performance will feature tenor Scott Williamson and pianist Melia Garber.

BEREGOVSKI SUITE: Alicia Svigals & Uli GeissendoerferSaturday, March 2, 2019 at 7:30 pmAt Agudath Sholom Synagogue, 2055 Langhorne Rd., Lynchburg, VA 24501The suite is based on 1930’s Klezmer (Eastern European Jewish) music from the Ukraine. Alicia Svigals, well-known klezmer fiddler and a founder of Grammy-winning Klezmatics, has collaborated with artists Itzhak Perlman, and Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant and Jimmy Page. Uli Geissendoerfer is a Grammy–nominated jazz and world music pianist and composer. In their Beregovski Suite, the duo perform melodies rescued by Soviet Jewish Ethnomusicologist Moishe Beregovski in settings that both recreate the lost world which gave them birth, and recontextualize them for the 21st century.

opus87 piano quartetSunday, April 7, 2019 at 4 pmAt Northminster Evangelical Presbyterian Church, 106 Clearview Rd., Madison Heights, VA 24572

Brian Daurelle on piano, Francesca Abusamra on violin, Dudley Raine IV on viola, and Teresa Angell on cello. Raine was raised in Lynchburg where he played with

James Chamber Players. He trained in New York City at Manhattan School of Music and formed “opus87 piano quartet” with friends. Now he’s bringing the group back to Virginia for a chamber music visit.

PERFORMANCES OUTSIDE THE AMHERST SERIES

BEREGOVSKI SUITE: Alicia Svigals & Uli GeissendoerferSunday, March 3, 2019, 4 pm At Temple Emanuel, 1163 Persinger Road SW, Roanoke, VA 24015Performance by violinist Alicia Svigals, world’s foremost klezmer fiddler, and Uli Geissendoerfer, Grammy–nominated jazz and world music pianist and composer. See March 2 listing for more details.

opus87 piano quartetFriday, April 5, 2019, 7:30 pmAt St. Andrew Presbyterian Church, 21206 Timberlake Rd, Lynchburg, VA 24502Chamber selections for violin, viola, cello, and piano. See April 7 listing for more details.

COFFEE AND JAZZ EVENINGS6:30-8:30 pmAGAR Events at Second Stage Amherst, 194 Second Street, Amherst, VA 24521Music, coffee, sandwiches, and pastries at Second Stage Amherst. Cover fee $10. Includes one cup of coffee or soda, with food for purchase.

• Saturday, November 17, 2018 — The Quantum Mechanics

Features Worth Proffitt as “Meister Matter” on drums, Andy Aeschbacher as “The Master of Momentum” on bass, and Ed Mikenas a.k.a. “Blackie White” providing the “Energy” on console steel guitar.

• Saturday, January 26, 2019 — QuintanaAn evening of traditional jazz including works by Miles Davis, “Duke” Ellington, Horace Silver, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, and Rodgers and Hart. Musicians are Al Mallet on alto saxophone,

Ernest Deane on trumpet, Glenn Buck on keyboards, Patrick Ragland on drums, and Ed Mikenas on bass.

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