As I begin my seventh season as Director of Music at St. Bart’s, I continue to be grateful for all the amazing music we create here every week; for all the wonderful musicians that make this place so special to serve at; and for the community that supports our program and shows their appreciation with great exuberance.
Our 2024-25 music season is a very exciting one! We’ll be celebrating our new sanctuary Kawai GX-5 grand piano, donated by members of the music ministry in May. The piano will feature prominently in our Cabaret Night: A Night at the Opera on Friday, September 27, at 7 p.m., when we’ll hear arias, choruses, and duets from some of your favorite operas, and in the Piano Dedication Concert on Sunday, October 13, at 4 p.m., featuring Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 and Copland’s Appalachian Spring, played by the Greater San Diego Music Coterie and local pianist prodigy Bradley Carpiuc. Also in 2024, we will present Morten Lauridsen’s beloved requiem masterwork, Lux Aeterna, on Saturday, November 2, at 7 p.m. and Sunday, November 3, at 4 p.m.; our annual Messiahsing-along on Friday, December 13, at 7 p.m. and Sunday, December 15, at 4 p.m.; and a reprise of our radio drama of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol on Sunday, December 22, at 4 p.m. Finally, on Friday, November 22, at 7 p.m., our very own superstar vocalist, Danielle Evans, will present for us a night of her favorite pop, Broadway, and opera solos—an event not to be missed!
In 2025, we will hear a world premiere of another of my compositions on Sunday, February 16, at 4 p.m.; this one is a piano suite entitled Precious Stones, a series of piano works that portray the precious gemstones (diamond, jade, emerald, etc.). Next, we will hear Franz Joseph Haydn’s magnum opus, his The Creation oratorio, with chorus, orchestra, and soloists, on Saturday, March 15, at 7 p.m. and Sunday, March 16, at 4 p.m.. On Palm Sunday, April 13, at 4 p.m., we will hear From Olivet to Calvary, the Passion narrative set to music by English composer John Henry Maunder. Finally, the season concludes with a presentation of Chess (the musical), on Friday, May 30, at 7 p.m., Saturday, May 31, at noon, and Sunday, June 1, at 4 p.m.
It will be another wonderful season of amazing music, and I hope you will consider joining our Friends of Music subscription program; this is the best way for you to support our program. You can do so by visiting stbartsmusic.org and subscribing at whichever level of support you’re able to contribute.
Always grateful to serve at St. Bart’s,
John-Luke Addison
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