Hallelujah! How well can you sing Handel?By Bill Raffel, WBFO
Buffalo, NY – The Cheektowaga Community Chorus is inviting you to learn an all-time classic choral work. Good morning. I'm Bill Raffel with Music Notes.
For the third time, the Chorus is holding a Messiah Sing-In starting tonight at 7:00?p.m. in the Cleveland Heights Christian Church. You don't have to formally join the chorus, nor will there be a public performance. This is simply an opportunity to see how well you can handle Handel.
Director Christiana Shrewsbury concedes the work can be difficult but says it's not impossible.
The chorus is also running children's summer music camp, the week of Monday, June 24th from 9nsbp;a.m. to noon in the Alexander Community Center (275 Alexander Avenue). It's for children in second through seventh grades, and they needn't be Cheektowaga residents either.
And adults don't have to live in Cheektowaga to participate in the Messiah Sing-In. The first session is tonight (Monday, June 10) at 7:00?p.m. in the Cleveland Heights Christian Church on Union Road near Cleveland Drive, and continuing on the next two Mondays (June 17 and 24). Christina Shrewsbury will direct.
Now, the Buffalo Philharmonic will preview its upcoming season with Assistant Conductor Ron Spigelman leading a free concert. It takes place Wednesday at 7:00?p.m. in Kleinhans, but you need to make a reservation ahead of time. Submit your request here. The Philharmonic closes its season Friday (6/14) at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday (6/15) at 8:00?p.m. with jazz vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater in a tribute to Ella Fitzgerald.
Also this week, The American Legion Band of the Tonawandas gives a free concert Wednesday (6/12) at 7?p.m. in Elma Town Park.
The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet performs Sunday (6/16) at 2?p.m. in Buffalo State's Rockwell Hall.
The Roycroft Chamber Music Festival wraps up Saturday at Sunday nights at 7?p.m. in St. Matthias Episcopal Church in East Aurora. Saturday's works are an oboe quartet by Mozart, Claude Debussy's String Quartet in G Minor, and Dvorak's Piano Trio in E Minor, the Dumky. Sunday is an all-Schubert program including the Octet in F Major and the Variations in A-flat major for Piano Four Hands.
Teenage Organist Joshua Stafford gives a recital Saturday (6/15) at 7?p.m. in Trinity United Methodist Church on Niagara Falls Boulevard near Eggert.