Spring Chamber Music Festival features Broadway favorites and classical gems
Sinfonietta Bel Canto features its Spring Chamber Music Festival on Sunday, April 19. It has a special theme of Broadway and popular music along with musical selections sure to reach the audience’s taste.
The concert will be at 2 p.m. at Woodridge United Methodist Church, 2700 75th St. in Woodridge.
Tickets can be purchased online at SinfoniettaBelCanto.org as well at the door.
This concert offers community members high quality and affordable performances with open seating and handicap accessibility.
Program highlights
The Prairie Sky Quintet, featuring Elayne Vargo, flute; Julia Landes, oboe; Art Perez, clarinet; Deborah Efflandt, bassoon, and Stephen Thurlow, horn, will perform selections from “Fiddler on the Roof” by Jerry Bock, “Old Man River” from “Showboat” by Jerome Kern, and Overture to “The Magic Flute” by Amadeus Mozart.
Cellist Jennifer Kumar, violist Jiwon Kim, and pianist Heewon Cha will be performing Johannes Brahms’ Trio in A minor Op. 114, III. Andantino Grazioso, and “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” from “Encanto” by Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Kumar and Cha return to the stage to play the Introduction and Polonaise brillante Op. 3 by Frédéric Chopin
Soprano Roxanne Ferguson, accompanied by Cha on piano, will be performing “Someone to Watch Over Me” from “Oh, Kay!” by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin, “It’s De-Lovely” from “Red Hot and Blue!” by Cole Porter, “I Could Have Danced All Night” from “My Fair Lady” by Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner, and “Till There Was You” from “The Music Man” by Meredith Willson.
Joy and the Boys Brass Quintet Brass on Broadway members Russell Monahan and Mark Running, trumpets; Joy Inouye, French horn; Bruce Gaylord, trombone; and Adam Obrzut, tuba, performing “Get Me to the Church on Time” from “My Fair Lady” by Lerner and Loewe; “Sunrise, Sunset” from “Fiddler on the Roof” by Jerry Bock & Sheldon Harnick; and “Comedy Tonight” from “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” by Stephen Sondheim.
This program is partially supported by a grant from Arts DuPage, a DuPage Foundation initiative.