The last of the Pipe Organ and Musical Events Group (POMEG) concerts for 2024 is this Sunday and will include popular themes from a wide spectrum of music from old to modern masters.
With a great variety of short items
written over a wide span of musical years from Bach through to much more recent times, this concert is sure to delight you.
The second half is devoted entirely to George Gershwin’s most popular numbers.
Canzona Brass, first established by John Schmidli in 1982, has a prestigious past and through its various members, has impressed audiences in Australia and internationally.
On Sunday the group appears as a trio of accomplished local musicians, John Schmidli, who led this group over the many years of its great successes and whose career as a trumpeter is of enormous distinction, and two other fine, well-known and well established local musicians, Kees Dogger playing French Horn and John Mourant on Euphonium.
Their music on Sunday is a wonderful
collection of short pieces of great and varied appeal which audiences have enjoyed from the times of Bach and Mozart through the years right up to the time of the most recent contemporary composers represented here.
When the trio play Bess you is my woman from the American composer George Gershwin’s celebrated Porgy and Bess it introduces this composer’s popular, jazz and classical genres of music.
After interval, pianist William Schmidt, who impressed our audience last year with his stunning classical program, introduces a second half devoted entirely to Gershwin, with piano music highlighting the
composer’s blend of classical and jazz influences.
William is joined by accomplished soprano Alison Jones and together they perform some of the most loved Gershwin jazz standards including Summertime, It ain’t necessarily so, both from Porgy and Bess and other great numbers.
The concert concludes with a solo piano excerpt from Rhapsody in Blue.
This is the first time Alison Jones has performed for them in Bairnsdale and they are extremely excited to hear her sing such a wonderful and appealing program of Gershwin’s songs.
The concert, presented by POMEG, is at Bairnsdale Uniting Church, corner of Great Alpine Highway and Lane’s Road, on Sunday, October 13 at 2pm.
Tea and coffee will be served during interval. Pay at the door. School students are free.
