NEWS and EVENTS

Updated: October 17, 2010

2010 - 2011 Season

FINAL LIGHT
The Fremont Symphony conducted by Music Director David Sloss will perform Mollicone's FINAL LIGHT on the opening program of the season.
Date: 9/25/10
Time: 8PM
Place: Chabot College; Fremont, CA
Tickets: www.fremontsymphony.com

Beatitude Mass premiere in Oregon
The First Baptist Church of Seattle Choir conducted by Music Director Vicky Thomas will perform the Oregon premiere of Mollicone's Beatitude Mass.
Date: 10/8/10
Time: 8PM
Place: First Baptist Church, McMinnville, OR

Winchester Orchestra
The opening concerts of the Winchester Orchestra (conducted by HM) will include music from CARMEN, along with The Paganini First Violin Concerto featuring the brilliant young violinist Stephen Waarts.
Dates: 10/23/10, 10/24/10
Times: 730PM, 7PM
Places: West Valley College Theater, Saratoga CA
TRINITY CATHEDRAL, San Jose CA
Tickets: Order season tickets and recieve a 25% discount off
the regular price. Offer good until October 24.
www.winchesterorchestra.com

Winchester Orchestra
The December concerts of the Winchester Orchestra (conducted by HM) will present the Christmas section of Handel's Messiah, featuring
The West Valley Masterworks Chorale directed by Lou De La Rosa, and Beethoven's MASS IN C. Soloists TBA.
Dates: 12/18/10, 12/19/10
Times: 730PM, 7PM
Places: West Valley College Theater, Saratoga CA
TRINITY CATHEDRAL, San Jose CA
Order season tickets and receive a 25% discount off
the regular price. Offer good until October 24.
www.winchesterorchestra.com

Lecture at Saratoga Foothill Club
Henry Mollicone will give a talk at the Saratoga Foothill Club on the topic of composing this Beatitude Mass.
Date: 1/11/11
Place: The Saratoga-Foothill Club, Saratoga, CA
Time: 1:15PM
(not open to the public)

Misa De Los Inmigrantes in Palo Alto, CA
The Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto Choir
will perform the Palo Alto premiere of Mollicone's MISA DE LOS INMIGRANTES with soprano soloist Kathy Parmentier and mezzo-soprano soloist Mayo Tsuzuki, conducted by HM.
Dates:1/29/11, 1/30/11
Times: 730PM, 2PM
Place: The Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto
Tickets: 650-858-8062

Premiere of Fantasia para Cuerdos
The San Jose Chamber Orchestra will present the premiere performance of this new work for string quartet, string orchestra, and percussion, featuring violinist Jeremy Cohen and Quartet San Francisco and conducted by music director Barbara Day Turner. The work was commissioned by The San Jose Chamber Orchestra.
Date: 3/5/11, 3/6/11
Time: 8PM, 7PM
Place: The Petite Trianon Museum
San Jose, CA
Tickets: 408-295-4416 sjco@sbcglobal.net

Winchester Orchestra
The March concerts of the Winchester orchestra (conducted by HM) will
feature performances of Beethoven's First Piano Concerto with Spanish pianist Daniel Del Pino, Mozart's Symphony #40 in G Minor, and the western premiere of Zae Munn's Time to Face the Music.
Dates: 3/19/11, 3/20/11
Times: 730PM, 7PM
Places: West Valley College Theater, Saratoga CA
TRINITY CATHEDRAL, San Jose CA
Order season tickets and recieve a 25% discount off
the regular price. Offer good until October 24.
www.winchesterorchestra.com

Winchester Orchestra
The May concerts of the Winchester orchestra (conducted by HM) will
feature performances of Mozart's Concerto #3 for horn and orchestra with soloist Jesse Chou, Dvorak's Symphony from "The New World", and Brian Holmes' Death's Jest-Book Overture.
Dates: 5/21/11, 5/22/11
Times: 730PM, 7PM
Places: West Valley College Theater, Saratoga CA
TRINITY CATHEDRAL, San Jose CA
Order season tickets and receive a 25% discount off
the regular price. Offer good until October 24.
www.winchesterorchestra.com

Beatitude Mass New Mexico premiere
The premiere of Beatitude Mass in New Mexico will be performed by Polyphony: Voices of New Mexico, Maxine Thévenot, Artistic Director, in a benefit concert for a women's and children's shelter. The program will also include the premiere of a new organ concerto by Andrew Ager.
Date: 6/18/11
Time: 6PM
Place: The Cathedral of St. John, Albuquerque, NM
Tickets: www.polyphonynm.com.

THE FACE in Central City
The Face on the Barroom Floor will be given its annual production at the Central City Opera in July and August, 2011. Details will be available at:
Tickets: www.centralcityopera.org

2009 - 2010 Season

YOLANDA RHODES, soprano and story-teller and HENRY MOLLICONE in CONCERT
Sunday September 13, 2009; 3PM
Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto
505 East Charleston Rd,
Palo Alto, CA 94306
Goodwill offering at the door
A family concert of music and story telling from various cultures

BEATITUDE MASS IN MONTEREY
Saturday, October 10, 2009, time and place TBA
For more information, call: 831-646-8511

Henry Mollicone’s Beatitude Mass (“mass for the homeless”) will be performed in Monterey, CA by the Monterey Symphony Chorus under Leroy Kromm’s direction in a concert to benefit the homeless.

SONGFEST! A concert of arias from the concert hall and songs from the cabaret
Sunday, October 18, 2009, 3PM
Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto for more
505 East Charleston Rd, Palo Alto CA 94306
For more information, call: 408 866 5302

Soprano Alison Collins and Henry Mollicone will perform a concert featuring lieder of Schubert, Bellini, and Mollicone, along with great American popular songs from the 30s and 40s by Kern, Rodgers, Strayhorn, Carmichael, and others. The concert will be repeated on November 8 at the TRINITY CATHEDRAL in San Jose (see listing below)

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THE WINCHESTER ORCHESTRA OPENING CONCERT:
The Romance of Italian Opera! (Henry Mollicone, music director)
October 24, 2009, 730PM, West Valley College Theater, Saratoga, CA
October 25, 2009, 7PM, Trinity Cathedral, San Jose, CA
For more information visit www.geocities.com/winchesterorchestra/
or call 408 866 5302

SONGFEST! A concert of arias from the concert hall and songs from the cabaret (see Oct. 18 description above)
Sunday, Nov. 8, 7PM, Trinity Cathedral, San Jose
For more information, call: 408 866 5302
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ANNUAL CONCERT
UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH OF PALO ALTO
505 East Charleston Rd, Palo Alto CA 94306
Saturday, December 5, 730PM
Sunday December 6, 3PM
For more information, please call 650 858 8062, or email
music-info@uucpa.org
Featuring the UUCPA Choir in a performance of Britten’s CEREMONY OF CAROLS, the Palo Alto Premiere of FIVE LOVE SONGS by Henry Mollicone with soprano soloist Alison Collins, vocal soloists Kathy Parmentier and Richard Heydt, and holiday solos by harpist Ruth Ann Adams.


ENGLISH PREMIERE OF BEATITUDE MASS
Saturday December 11
Bristol Phoenix Choir
Tyndale Baptist Church
Whiteladies Road, Bristol (England)
The Bristol Phoenix Choir under the direction of Leslie Bunt will present
Beatitude Mass in its English premiere.

For more information, visit their website at: www.bristolphoenixchoir.org.uk/index.htm

THE WINCHESTER ORCHESTRA HOLIDAY CONCERT
(Henry Mollicone, music director)
December 12, 2009, 730PM, West Valley College Theater
Saratoga, CA
December 13, 2009, 7PM, Trinity Cathedral, San Jose, CA
For more information visit www.geocities.com/winchesterorchestra/
or call 408 866 5302
The concert features a Vivaldi concerto for four violins, the West Valley College Masterworks choir (directed by Lou De La Rosa) in choruses from Borodin’s PRINCE IGOR, and a performance of the popular WARSAW CONCERTO with soloist Paul Davies.

World Premiere:
Misa de los Inmigrantes (MASS FOR THE IMMIGRANTS)
BY HENRY MOLLICONE
San Jose Symphonic Choir and instrumental ensemble, Leroy Kromm, director; Santa Clara University Choir, Ryan Brandau, director
Layna Chianakas, mezzo soprano solo
Nova Jimenez, narrator
Conducted by Leroy Kromm

Friday, March 5, 2010, 7:30 PM
Mission Santa Clara, on the campus of Santa Clara University
500 El Camino Real
Santa Clara, CA 95053
For this performance, tickets, although free, must be reserved.
Please call: 408 554 4015

Sunday, March 7, 2010, 7:30 PM
Trinity Cathedral
81 North 2nd Street
San Jose, CA 95113

Admission to both concerts: FREE
San Jose Symphonic Choir
72 North 5th St, Suite 19
San Jose, CA 95112
(408) 995-3318
Donations will be given to local charities that support immigrants and immigration reform


BEATITUDE MASS: DETROIT PREMIERE
(performed by the Rackham Symphony Choir directed by Suzanne Mallare Acton)
Sunday, March 14, 2010, time TBA
Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament
9844 Woodward Ave.
Detroit, Michigan
For more information, please visit www.rackhamchoir.org/

This concert will benefit three local charities that work with people in situations of poverty.

THE WINCHESTER ORCHESTRA MARCH CONCERT:
“CONCERTO FEST” (Henry Mollicone, music director)
Saturday March 20, 2010, 730PM, West Valley College Theater, Saratoga, CA
Sunday, March 21, 7PM, Trinity Cathedral, San Jose, CA
for more information visit www.geocities.com/winchesterorchestra/
or call 408 866 5302
This concert will feature Bach’s Double Concerto for two violins and orchestra with soloists Sally Dalke and Judith Kmetko, Tchaikovsky’s Concerto #1 for piano and orchestra with pianist Daniel Glover, and Schubert’s Symphony #8 (“The Unfinished”)

Washington premiere of Beatitude Mass

SING US HOME

Featuring Beatitude Mass for the Homeless

Sunday, March 28; 3pm
Seattle First Baptist
1111 Harvard Ave.
Seattle, WA

206.325.6051

www.SeattleFirstBaptist.org/Beatitude

A classcial concert to raise awareness about homelessness

CHILDREN OF THE SUN: The Story of La Senora de Guadalupe
A workshop of Children of the Sun, composed by Henry Mollicone with libretto by William Luce, is a new music theatre work based on the story of Juan Diego's vision of the Virgin Mary in Tepeyac, Mexico, in 1531.
DETAILS:
Saturday, May 1, 2010, Chapel, Notre Dame de Namur University, 7:30 p.m.
For more information, contact the Box Office at 650-508-3456, or boxoffice@ndnu.edu

THE WINCHESTER ORCHESTRA SEASON FINALE
(Henry Mollicone, music director)
Saturday May 22, 2010, 730PM, West Valley College Theater, Saratoga, CA
Sunday, May 23, 7PM, Trinity Cathedral, San Jose, CA
for more information visit www.geocities.com/winchesterorchestra/
or call 408 866 5302
The concert will feature a full performance of Mendelssohn’s powerful Symphony #2, “The Lobgesang”, featuring the Masterworks Chorale under the direction of Lou De La Rosa.

TWO NEW ENGLAND PREMIERES AT NEWPORT MUSIC FESTIVAL
FLOWERS OF THE SOUL, a song cycle for soprano and piano trio, and MISTERIA, a major piano work, will be performed at the Newport Music Festival in Newport, Rhode Island, on Saturday, July 17, 2010. Teresa Cincione will be featured as soprano soloist, and Daniel del Pino as piano soloist. Details will soon be available on the website: www.newportmusic.org.

THE FACE AT CENTRAL CITY OPERA
In July and August, 2010, the annual performances of THE FACE will be given at the Central City Opera. The work has been performed annually as part of their summer festival since 1978.
Information: boxoffice@centralcityopera.

Publishing News

The following movements from Beatitude Mass are now available from ECS Publishing as individual octavos:

Blessed (SSATB & Pno.) #7321
Kyrie (SATB & Pno.) #7322
Gloria (S & Bar Soli, SSAATBB and Pno.) #7323
Sanctus (SSAATBB & Pno.) #7324
Meditation and Benedictus (S solo, SAATBB and Pno.) #7325
Agnus Dei (SSATBB & Pno.) #7326
Finale (S & Bar Soli, SATB divisi & Pno.) #7327

Works Soon to be Available from ECS Publishing:
(release dates are tentative and subject to change)

Choral Anthems (satb):
Super Cuncta - Fall 2009
National Weather Report - Winter 2009
Alleluia - Spring 2009
Dreaming of Faith - Winter 2010
Glory Day - TBA
Colorado - TBA
Gotta work it our my way - TBA

Song Cycles:
Five Love Songs (soprano and piano) - Winter 2009
Songs of Love and Departure (tenor and piano) - Winter 2009
Images and Reflections (soprano and piano) - Winter 2009

Opera:
Gabriel’s Daughter (two act opera, piano vocal score) - TBA