September 2019
First United Methodist Schenectady MoonBee
Please join us for a fun evening as we make and assemble MoonCatcher Kits. Don’t sew? No problem - we have plenty of jobs for everyone. If you sew, please bring your machine. Also - please remember to bring disposable menstrual products for donation to local food pantries and shelters. Did you know that you cannot purchase menstrual products with food stamps. Help us address period poverty here at home!
Find out more »October 2019
American Brass Quintet
The American Brass Quintet is internationally recognized as one of the premier chamber music ensembles of our time, celebrated for peerless leadership in the brass world. Committed to the promotion of brass chamber music through education, the American Brass Quintet has been in residence at The Juilliard School since 1987 and the Aspen Music Festival since 1970. The New York Times recently wrote that “among North American brass ensembles none is more venerable than the American Brass Quintet,” while Newsweek…
Find out more »March 2020
Elizabeth Pitcairn, Concert Violinist
Violin virtuoso Elizabeth Pitcairn has earned a stunning reputation as one of America's most beloved soloists. Performing with many of the major orchestras in some of the most famous concert halls, Ms Pitcairn has traveled the globe playing on of the world's most legendary instruments, the "Red Mendelssohn" Stradivarius violin of 1720. This instrument inspired the Academy Award-winning film, The Red Violin
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Isabelle Demers, Concert Organist
Concert organist Isabelle Demers is rapidly becoming recognized as one of North America's most virtuosic organists. Possessing "bracing virtuosity" (Chicago Classical Review), she has enraptured listeners worldwide with spellbinding performances. A native of Quebec and a graduate of Juilliard, she is Organ Professor and Head of Organ Program at Baylor University in Texas.
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