Press Release
Schubert and Friends
October 15, 2011, 7:30
Pilgrim Congregational Church
460 Lake Street, Oak Park
In this unusual presentation, the life of the beloved composer Franz Schubert will be presented through a live narration and illustrated by his music. In his brief life (he died at 31 and composed during only his last 20 years), Schubert wrote more than 1,000 works, many of them songs with texts and settings that are very personal and profoundly moving. The evening will compress into a little over two hours a life of such depth, joy, sorrow, tenderness, and desolation as has rarely been presented—and all in the language Schubert left us in abundance, his music.
Singers Janene Bergen and Douglas Anderson, pianist Cassie Makeeff, and the Heritage Chorale and Concordia Chamber Orchestra (both conducted by Maurice Boyer) will be joined by the Schubert String Quartet and guests, including Andy Stein, the public radio fiddler; Schubert's spiritual soulmate David Tartakoff will be the narrator.
Be sure to reserve the date. Tickets will be available at the door for $15 ($10 for students and seniors).
