Sevenars 57th Season Opening Concert "Family and Friends"

The Opening Concert of Sevenars Music Festival's 57th anniversary season offers exciting masterpieces for piano solo, piano duo, and violin/piano duo, with special tribute to Maurice Ravel and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor for their 150th anniversaries! Stellar guest artists will be  pianist/composer Clifton J. ("Jerry") Noble and violinist Alexis Walls, joining Sevenars family members Rorianne Schrade, Lynelle James, and Christopher James, who will all play the hall's magnificent Steinway concert grand. The program will open with Lynelle James and Rorianne Schrade performing a specially arranged duo of Coleridge-Taylor. The music continues with Christopher Janes playing one of Liszt's most exciting of the Transcendental Etudes, Wild Jagd ("Wild Hunt"). To honor Ravel, there will be his Gaspard de la Nuit played by Lynelle James, the deliciously bluesy Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano played by Alexis Walls with Lynelle, and La Valse played by Rorianne Schrade. Rorianne will also join Clifton J. Noble for the finale of Percy Grainger's Porgy and Bess Fantasy based on Gershwin's iconic opera. Welcome, all!