The following are program notes for our upcoming concerts in Florida. Hope you enjoy learning a little about the selections we have prepared!

May 12, 2019 @ 5pm- Memorial Presbyterian Church in St. Augustine

May 16, 2019 @ 6:30pm - Blessed Trinity Catholic Church in Ocal...

Heitor Villa-Lobos had a great deal of experience playing in street bands, he was also a cellist and had the opportunity to play in the Rio Opera Company, prior to the launching of his career as a composer. The diversity of these experiences must have profoundly affect...

Hirono and I first stumbled across the musical genre ‘chôro’ as graduate students at the Eastman School of Music. I must confess that at that time, we likely didn’t have an explicit interest in learning about popular musical forms outside the Western Classical traditio...