Heights Chamber Orchestra Concert

Newly appointed, Music Director Travis Jürgens leads the Heights Chamber Orchestra in his first concert as Music Director. He served as Director of Music Ministry at Saint Ambrose Catholic Parish since 2020 and as Music Director of the fully professional Perrysburg Symphony Orchestra. Previously, he was the Music Director and Conductor of the Ohio Northern Symphony, and the Lima Area Youth Orchestra. He won 2nd Prize and the President of the Jury Award at the 2019 Bucharest Music Institute International Conducting Competition. He has conducted the Rochester Philharmonic, Colorado Symphony, among others. He has collaborated with esteemed conductors, including Michael Tilson Thomas and Marin Alsop. He has been praised as “a superior conductor” and “well on his way to becoming a major conductor in the world of symphony orchestras” (Opus Colorado). Kevin Jones, organ, Sponsored by Holtkamp Organ Company Kevin Jones joined St. Paul’s Staff as Director of Music. He is a remarkable talent, both as a choral conductor and organist. Kevin brings a wealth of expertise and experience to the position. He is a professional organist and choral conductor. Kevin has a Master of Music in Organ and Collaborative Piano from the Cleveland Institute of Music. Claude Debussy’s La Cathédrale engloutie refers to French legends connected with the sea. One of the most interesting is Debussy’s take on the long-ago city of Ys, which was engulfed by the sea and rises occasionally, to be seen on clear days. Slowly the city rises and comes to life – we can hear the daily sounds of bells ringing, priests chanting, the organ sounding, but it is all in the distance. Muzio Clementi’s Symphony No. 3 in G Major ‘The Great National’ was composed in tribute to his adopted homeland. He based the Symphony on "God Save the King", which is hinted at earlier in the work, not least in the second movement, and announced unapologetically by the trombones in the finale. Arvo Pärt’s Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten begins with a tolling bell that continues through the entire piece. The musical material is a lamenting, minor scale which begins high in the violins and continued, overlapping in different tempos, downward through the lower strings. Britten, like Pärt, found in modern, avant garde music elements that he could bring into his own work without abandoning his individual musical vision. Alexandre Guilmant’s Symphony No. 1 for Organ and Orchestra began as one of his eight organ sonatas. The symphony begins loudly with organ and orchestra matching one another in grand alternating assertions… “Like two heavyweight boxers exchanging punches.” He was the first major French organist to tour the United States in 1904, where he produced a series of 40 concerts. He also became a popular performer throughout Europe, and one critic likened him to “a pop star.” In England, his concerts sometimes attracted over 10,000 people. All are welcome!

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