Event Info
Bellingham Chamber Music Society Opening Gala Concert
BCMS at the Leo- Schubert, Vernon Duke, Coleridge Taylor, Fernande Decruck
3:00pm - 5:00pm Doors at: 2:00pm
$10-$80
Event Description
Come to Bellingham, WA for a chamber music adventure where you can stay at the beautiful 1929 Hotel Leo and get 15% off your rate by mentioning the Bellingham Chamber Music Society. In addition, all hotel guests receive free tickets to our concert on Sunday, September 24th at 3:00pm. So join us for the BCMS opening concert where we’ll share the elegant works by the French organist and composer, Fernande Decruck, who could improvise symphonies on the organ and 19th century British composer, Samuel Coleridge Taylor who was a pioneer of incorporating African folk music into the classical tradition as Brahms had done with Hungarian folk music. The centerpiece of the concert will be soprano Heather Dudenbostel, singing popular works by 1950s composer, Vernon Duke and Franz Schubert’s glorious work for soprano, clarinet and piano, “Shepherd on a Rock”.
Venue
Hotel Leo Crystal Ballroom