Renaissance City Winds hosts an America 250 concert this weekend! Bassoonist and composer R. James Whipple and organist Mark Brampton Smith speak with Jim Cunningham about the program.
Renaissance City Winds hosts an America 250 concert this weekend! Bassoonist and composer R. James Whipple and organist Mark Brampton Smith speak with Jim Cunningham about the program.
The concert features a touring program, which includes John Knowles Paine's "variations on Star-Spangled Banner," Joseph Haydn's "St. Anthony Chorale", and a piece by Jim Whipple called "Wedding Music for Kensington." Mark and Jim talks about the venue's rebuilt pipe organ and their respective careers.
Jim, Mark, and Jim also listen to recordings made by Renaissance City Winds: "The Vale of Dreams" and "The Night Winds" from Charles Tomlinson Griffes' Three Tone-Pictures, and "Co-motion," the third movement of Maria Thompson Corley's Sextet in C's.
The concert will take place at St. Anthony Church in Troy Hill on Friday, June 12 at 7:30pm. Tickets are a $20 suggested donation. More information is available on Renaissance City Winds' website.