Join us for our first Bach’s Lunch Series concert of the new
year! Mark Andrew Cleveland, baritone, and pianist Gregg Pauley will perform a
concert entitled “A Journey into the Dark: Songs from Schubert’s Die Winterreise.”
Begins at 12:10 p.m. and ends by 12:50 p.m.
In Die Winterreise (The Winter's Journey) Schubert offers us
a song cycle of one man's travels through the cold and dark. Combining voice
and piano, Schubert sets the poetry of Wilhelm Muller's backwards look at love
lost. On Thursday, January 2nd, meditation teacher Margaret Fletcher will speak
on the perils and potential of stepping into the darker territory of life.
Gregg Pauley and Mark Andrew Cleveland will present selections from Schubert's
Die Winterreise on Thursday, January 9, taking us on a lyrical, musical trip
into the winter darkness.
The Bach’s Lunch Series, running from November through June,
offers free, informal lunch-hour lectures the first Thursday of every month and
a related concert the following Thursday in the Music School’s Recital Hall, 23
Wall St., downtown Concord.
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The Bach’s Lunch Series received a 2007 Best of NH Award
from New Hampshire Magazine, named as an Editor's Pick - “best place to bring a
brown-bag lunch.” The Bach’s Lunch Series is sponsored by The Timothy and
Abigail B. Walker Lecture Fund. Call 603-228-1196 for information, or visit the
website www.ccmusicschool.org
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About the artists:
Mark Andrew Cleveland, bass, has performed extensively
throughout the Northeast. His performance credits include Boston
Baroque and Cantata Singers, Tanglewood, Ravinia, and the Disney Concert Hall
in Los Angeles, California. In addition
to his frequent appearances as an oratorio soloist, Mr. Cleveland has appeared
on the operatic stage in Spoleto, Italy and Charleston, S.C. with the Festivale
dei Due Mondi, the June Opera Festival of New Jersey, Granite State Opera and
Monadnock Festival. A respected collaborative musician, Mr. Cleveland has
performed in recitals and chamber music concerts throughout New England. Recently, he toured Europe with La Donna
Musicale, a Boston based chamber ensemble which specializes in the historically
informed performances of women composers from the Baroque era. In addition, he has recorded with New World
Records and Telarc in repertoire ranging from the Baroque to the 20th
century. Mr. Cleveland teaches voice at
the University of Massachusetts-Lowell, Phillips Exeter Academy and St. Paul’s
School. A magna cum laude graduate of Westminster Choir College, he is the
Director of Music at Grace Episcopal Church in Manchester, NH.
Gregg Pauley, piano, joined the faculty of the Music School
in the fall of 1999. A native of Southern California, he earned his bachelor’s
degree in music from the University of Southern California with pianist James
Bonn. He earned a master’s degree at Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of
the Arts where he studied with Ilana Vered. In addition to many appearances at
the Rutgers Summerfest, Pauley has performed in Alice Tully Hall in New York
City, at Steinway Hall in Los Angeles and has been presented in recital by the
Steinway Society of Princeton, the University of Southern California, the
Southwestern Youth Music Festival, Aspen Music Festival and the Music Teachers’
National Association Convention, among others. He has performed on WQXR radio
in New York and on WKPM in Portland, Maine where he was the featured soloist in
a live broadcast of Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto. Pauley has been a top
prizewinner at many competitions, including the Johanna Hodges International
Piano Competition, the Portland Symphony-Priscilla Morneault Piano Competition
and the Hampton Summerfest Competition. He is currently in the first year of “A
State of Wonder: The 32 Piano Sonatas of
Beethoven,” a three-year project of nine concerts.
