Yachats Music Festival Schedule

2012 Concert Schedule:

The 31st Anniversary Yachats Music Festaval will take place July 8 - 10 at Yachats , Oregon . The Yachats Music Festival is the summer festival of California-based Four Seasons Concerts. Music Festival concerts are scheduled at the Yachats Community Presbyterian Church, 360 West 7th Street in Yachats.

Friday July 13th – 8:00pm

Saturday July 14th – 8:00pm

Sunday July 15th – 2:00pm and 8:00pm

Highlights of each concert are:

Friday, July 13 - 8:00 PM

Green-Hill/Stuart/Yom (piano trio): Haydn – Trio in C H. XV:27, 3rd movement
Buchanan/Burnett/Helmrich (soprano, violin, piano): Handel – Meine Seele
Stark (piano): Chopin – Ballade No. 1
Chambers/Hecht (viola, piano): Bloch – Suite Hebraique, 1st movement (Rhapsodie)
Turner/Graber (baritone, piano): Duparc – Phidyle
Paige/Graber (baritone, piano): Finzi – Come Away, Death
Yang Wei (pipa player): Traditional – Folk Song of the Yi Tribe

Intermission
D'Archambeau/Helmrich (violin, piano): Saint-Saëns – Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso
Bates (piano): Beethoven – Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 2 "Moonlight" 1st movement
Buckner/Kubera (baritone, piano): Hawthorne – Listen to the Mockingbird
Martinez/Hecht (soprano, piano): Donizetti – Me voglio fen a casa
LeBron/Hecht (baritone, piano): Braga – A casinha pequenini
Martinez/LeBron/Sigal (soprano, baritone, piano): Alma Adentro
Heredia (flamenco guitar): Sabicas/Heredia – Gypsy Inspiration (Bulerias)
Dedication
D'Archambeau (violin): Traditional – Goin' Home
Turner/Hairston: Hall Johnson – Oh, Glory

Saturday July 14 - 8:00 PM

Green-Hill/Burnett/Chambers (violin, violin, viola): Dvorak – Terzetto, 3rd movement
Buckner/Kubera (baritone/piano): Ives – General William Booth Enters Into Heaven
Yang-Wei (pipa player): Traditional – Ancient Battlefields
Martinez/Sigal (soprano, piano): Puccini – Muzetta's Waltz (from La Boheme)
Turner/Yom (baritone, piano): Donizetti – O Lisbona (from Don Sebastiano)
D'Archambeau/Yom (violin, piano): Paganini – Witches' Dance
Heredia (flamenco guitar): Traditional – Dances of Seville (Sevillanas)

Intermission
Bates (piano): Ellington/Bates – Come Sunday
Turner/Hairston (baritone, piano): Firestone – If I Could Tell You
Martinez/LeBron/Graber (soprano, baritone, piano): Kern – You Are Love (from Showboat)
Stuart/Helmrich (cello, piano): Beethoven – Seven Variations on Mozart's "Bei
Männern" from The Magic Flute
LeBron/Sigal (baritone, piano): Wagner – O Du Mein Holder Abendstern (from Tannhäuser)
Buchanan/Hecht (soprano, piano): Puccini – Senza Mamma (from Suor Angelica)
Bates (piano): Schumann – Fantasy in C Major, 2nd movement

Sunday July 15 - 2:00 PM

Stuart/Hecht (Cello, Piano): Fauré – Elegy
Paige/Graber (baritone, piano): Bach – Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
Graamans (piano): Handel – Air & Variations Suite No. 5 in E Major ("Harmonious Blacksmith")
Turner/Sigal (baritone, piano): Leslie Adams – Prayer
Buchanan/Kubera (soprano, piano): Hailstork – Difficulties / Decisions (from Songs of Love and Justice – texts by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Bates (piano): Rachmaninoff – Etude-tableau, Op. 39, No. 3

Intermission
Heredia (flamenco guitar): Sabicas/Heredia – Jewels of the Alhambra (Granadinas)
Martinez/LeBron/Graber (soprano, baritone, piano): Lecuoma – Yo vivi soñando en un cuartico (from the Cuban zarzuela Rosa la China)
Green-Hill/Burnett/Chambers/Stuart (string quartet): William Grant Still – Selections from "Little Folks Suite" – Los Indios, Salangadou, Aurore Pradere
Buckner/Kubera (baritone, piano): Stephen Foster – Beautiful Dreamer
Graamans (piano): Joplin – Gladiolus Rag
Buchanan/Hecht (soprano, piano): Satie – Je te veux
D'Archambeau/Helmrich (violin, piano): Bartok – Six Romanian Folk Dances
Yang Wei/Stuart/Yom (pipa, cello, piano): Brahms – Hungarian Dance No. 6

Sunday July 15 - 8:00 PM

Yom/Green-Hill/Chambers/Stuart (piano quartet): Saint-Saëns – Piano Quartet, 1st movement
Buchanan/Bates (soprano, piano): Bonds – Three Dream Portraits
Paige/Hecht (baritone, piano): Po' Lil' Jesus
Paige/Hecht (baritone, piano): Moses Hogan – The Crucifixion
Turner/Hairston (baritone, piano): Hairston – Good News
Bates (piano): George Walker – Piano Sonata, 2nd movement
Green-Hill/Graber (violin, piano): Debussy – Violin Sonata, 1st movement
Yang Wei/Helmrich (pipa, piano): Gu Guan-Ren – Lady Hua Mu-Lan

Intermission
Heredia (flamenco guitar): Sabicas – South American Rhythms (Colombiana)
Martinez/Graber (soprano, piano): Turina – Nunc olvida / Cantares (from Poema en forma de canciones)
Lebron/Sigal (baritone, piano): Ramirez – Alfonsina y el mar
D'Archambeau/Burnett/Chambers/Stuart (string quartet): Frank Bridge – An Irish Melody (The Londonderry Air)
Buchanan/Yom (soprano, piano): Charles – When I Have Sung My Songs to You
Stark (piano): Ravel – Jeux d'eau

Additional Information

Festival Patrons ($140. for the entire Festival) are invited to a Thursday evening reception with the artists, all four concerts, and daytime seminars which include “Olivier Messiaen, French composer (1908-1992): Mysticism & Bird Songs” presented by pianist Jeanne Stark; “Spiritual Journey: An account of the journey from Slavery to Freedom” presented by baritone Autris Paige and pianist Jeongeun Yom; “The Evolution of the Cello: A Journey with Palo and Troy” with cellist Troy Stuart (and his cello, Palo); and “Songs of the Victorian Era: Class, Race and Elegance” presented by baritone Anthony Turner.

For information about the Festival Patron, please contact Joanne Kittel at 541-961-8374 or jnkittel@peak.org.

The Yachats Music Festival is dedicated to the memory of its founder, Dr. W. Hazaiah Williams, who conceptualized and began the Festival in Yachats in 1981.
Individual, general admission tickets at $19.00 for each concert can be purchased at the Yachats Visitor’s Center (541-547-3530 or 800-929-047), the Adobe Resort (541-547-3141) -- all located in Yachats and tickets are available online. For further information, call Joanne Kittel at 541-961-8374 or Four Seasons Arts at 510-845-4444, and the Yachats Music Festival web site.

PUBLICITY DEPARTMENT CONTACT:

Joanne Kittel
541-961-8374
Jnkittel@peak.org

Artists performing during the three-day Festival are:

Leon Bates, Pianist

Alison Buchanan, Soprano

Thomas Buckner, Baritone

David Burnett, Violinist

Jamie Chambers, Violist

Pierre D'Archambeau, Violinist

Milo Graamans, Student Pianist

Miles Graber, Pianist

Mariana Green-Hill, Violinist