Buffalo Gals meet Brahms and Bernstein
Monday, October 12, 2009 at 7pm - FREE, Jewish Community Center, 7300 Hart Lane
This program will consist of works for clarinet and piano with Martha MacDonald, clarinet and Lita Guerra, piano.  Selections performed include Dance Preludes by Lutoslawski, Sonatas by Bernstein and Brahms (Op. 120 #1), and  Walker's Buffalo Gals and others. Refreshments will be provided after the performance (coffee and sweets most likely) for $1 donation.  RSVP to Lisa Quay at (512) 735-8086 or lisa.quay@shalomaustin.org.

Woman, Spirit, Earth: Nymphs, Naiades & Nature
Saturday, October 24, 2009 at 8pm, Westlake United Methodist Church, 1460 Redbud Trail
Sunday, October 25,2009 at 3pm - FREE, Concordia University Chapel Building A, 11400 Concordia University Dr.
You're invited to join artists Claire Vangelisti, soprano; Delaine Fedson, harp; and Sandra Lunte, flute for a delightful program.  It will consist of duo and solo repertoire for flute and harp, folk songs from the British Isles arranged for voice and harp, as well as a voice/harp arrangement of the well known operatic aria Rusalka's Song to the Moon. 

Musique de Printemps
Saturday, March 27, 2010 at 8pm, 4401 Avenue H., Private Home in Hyde Park (space is limited - reservations suggested)
Music to fit the Spring season performed by women; violist Martha Carapetyan, flautist Barb Mahler, and harpist Elaine Barber. The program will include the Trio by Debussy and trios by French composers Jolivet and Leclaire. The concert will be performed in a beautifully restored historic home in Hyde Park (4401 Avenue H). What better way to enjoy chamber music than in the intimate ambience for which it was written?

Selections from the concert also will be performed on Sunday, April 4, 2010 at 3pm - FREE, Jewish Community Center, 7300 Hart Lane

Spellbound: Wizards, Witches and Tricksters
Friday, April 9, 2010 at 8pm, First Presbyterian Church part of St. Cecilia Music Series, 8001 Mesa Drive
Saturday, April 10, 2010 at 8pm, Westlake United Methodist Church 1460 Redbud Trail  
Music featured in this concert includes universally appealing Broadway, film score, art song, and jazz standards either about or sung by villains - or otherwise misunderstood and other-worldly characters - and macabre affairs. Martha Dudgeon will accompany soprano Eva Laskaris, and tenor Jeffrey Jones-Ragona. This mixed program will feature vocal solos and duets featuring music from Broadway's Wicked, and The Mystery of Edwin Drude and others. It will also include art songs of Faure, Saint-Saens, Liszt, and Strauss. You won't want to miss piano transcriptions from films such as The Sorcerer's Stone, Tommy, and Fantasia. Just for fun, video game themes will be played as well.

Ticket prices:
$20 adults
$15 seniors and students
$5 students 10 and under with parents

Call 345-3399 or email ACEnsemble@sbcglobal.net for tickets, reservations and information.