BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Music Worcester - ECPv6.3.3.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.musicworcester.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Music Worcester REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240406T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240406T220000 DTSTAMP:20240328T093124 CREATED:20230510T192844Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240227T150150Z UID:10000137-1712433600-1712440800@www.musicworcester.org SUMMARY:American Spiritual Ensemble DESCRIPTION:Adult: $55Student: $17.50Youth (18 & under): $7.50\n \n \n \n Buy Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n General admission seating is available on a first-come-first-served basis at the Curtis Performance Hall at Assumption University. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Music Worcester thanks the following sponsors of this presentation:\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n American Spiritual Ensemble\n The mission of the American Spiritual Ensemble is to preserve and continue the tradition of storytelling through the performance and preservation of the American negro spiritual. Performing these spirituals serves as a tribute to the many lives lost or destroyed during slavery in the United States; a horrible time for human kind. These songs\, a combination of African\, American\, and European traditions\, create a new type of melody in which a sense of identification was created within the enslaved community. These songs now stand as a testament of the strength found through faith during times of hardship as well as a unifying force among all peoples. These songs are beloved all around the world. \nThe American Spiritual Ensemble commits to aiding in the preservation of these beautiful melodies through performances worldwide as well as through education in the form of: lectures\, master classes and vocal instruction for educational\, religious\, and community institutions worldwide. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dr. Everett McCorvey (director)\n \nDr. Everett McCorvey\, tenor\, is the founder and director of the American Spiritual Ensemble. A native of Montgomery\, Alabama\, he received his degrees from the University of Alabama\, including a Doctorate in Musical Arts. Vocal Excellence is a hallmark of Dr. McCorvey’s work. As a teacher\, he has given master classes and vocal workshops throughout the United States\, Europe\, South America\, China\, Japan\, and Poland. Dr. McCorvey is the founder and Music Director of the American Spiritual Ensemble. McCorvey recently produced a CD Anchored in the Lord featuring singers from the Bay View Music Festival’s American Negro Spirituals Intensive Program\, where McCorvey serves as Director. \nHis career has spanned all areas of the performing arts industry\, from performing to musical directing\, vocal teaching\, producing\, impresario\, conducting\, union representing\, administrative work\, and mentoring. \nDr. McCorvey is of the belief that every citizen in the country should find ways to give back to his or her community\, city\, or country. He has been very active in his volunteer activities working to keep the arts as a part of the civic conversation and currently serves on many local\, regional\, and national boards. He holds an Endowed Chair in Opera Studies/Director of Opera and Professor of Voice at the University of Kentucky in Lexington\, Kentucky. \nDr. McCorvey is also entering his seventh season as the Artistic Director of the National Chorale of New York City. Celebrating over 50 years of great choral singing\, the National Chorale is a symphonic choir which performs at Lincoln Center in New York City. The National Chorale is well-known in New York and around the region for its performances of the great choral titans as well as for the popular New York Messiah Sing-In at Lincoln Center! The Sing-In is one of the oldest sing-in’s in the country. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Program\n Performance Program To Be Announced \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dr. Everett McCorvey (Founder & Director)\n “It has now been over 400 years since the first enslaved African person set foot on American soil. Today\, it is our privilege to be able to perform these songs\, tell their stories\, and share our love for the beautiful creations with the world.” \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n On Youtube \n \n \n \n \n \n American Spiritual Ensemble\nWatch more on YouTube: \n \n More on YouTube URL:https://www.musicworcester.org/event/american-spiritual-ensemble/ LOCATION:Curtis Performance Hall\, 500 Salisbury Street\, Worcester\, Massachusetts\, 01609 CATEGORIES:choral,contemporary,ensemble ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.musicworcester.org/wp-content/uploads/ase-slide.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240518T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240518T220000 DTSTAMP:20240328T093124 CREATED:20230510T193048Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240227T145639Z UID:10000133-1716062400-1716069600@www.musicworcester.org SUMMARY:Tessa Lark & Frank Vignola DESCRIPTION:Adult: $45-$65Student: $17.50Youth: $7.50\n \n \n \n Buy Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n Buyers choose their own assigned seats for this presentation at Tuckerman Hall. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Music Worcester thanks the following sponsors of this presentation: \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nOn May 18\, legendary jazz guitarist Frank Vignola will team up with violinist & fiddler Tessa Lark to create an intimate musical experience\, performing in the infectious Hot Club vein of Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli. Don’t miss this once-in-a-lifetime collaboration of award-winning instrumental virtuosos\, together on stage at Worcester’s historic Tuckerman Hall. \n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Frank Vignola\n \n\nFrank Vignola\, born December 30th\, 1965\, is one of the most extraordinary guitarists performing before the public today. His stunning virtuosity has made him the guitarist of choice for many of the world’s top musicians\, including Ringo Starr\, Madonna\, Donald Fagen\, John Lewis\, Tommy Emmanuel\, Lionel Hampton\, the Boston Pops\, the New York Pops\, and guitar legend Les Paul\, who named Vignola to his “Five Most Admired Guitarists List:” for the Wall Street Journal. \nFrank Vignola is one of the most popular and sought after guitarists on the international music scene. His dynamic genre-spanning music has brought him to 21 countries on three continents – and still growing – performing in some of the world’s most illustrious venues\, including the Sydney Opera House\, Carnegie Hall\, The Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco\, New York’s Lincoln Center\, The Blue Note\, and the world’s oldest indoor concert hall\, Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza\, Italy. \nVignola has recorded over 30 CD’s as a leader and has been a guest on hundreds of recordings. Vignola has written over 18 educational music books\, recorded the critically acclaimed\, “Vignola Plays Gershwin” CD\, and recorded 3 DVD’s for Mel Bay Publications. He has also produced over 50 full length video teaching courses for TrueFire.com\, for all levels. His on-line One on One private lessons and online Jazz Studio continue to thrive\, having reached thousands of jazz guitar enthusiasts all over the globe. \n\n\n\n\nCurrently\, Frank Vignola holds residency every Wednesday night at the world famous Birdland Jazz Club Theatre in New York City. “Frank Vignola’s Guitar Night” has featured some of the finest talent on the planet including Mike Stern\, Pasquale Grasso\, Janis Siegel\, Ken Peplowski\, Bill Charlap\, Houston Person and many more. \n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Tessa Lark\n \n\nViolinist Tessa Lark is one of the most captivating artistic voices of our time\, consistently praised by critics and audiences for her astounding range of sounds\, technical agility\, and musical elegance. In 2020 she was nominated for a GRAMMY in the Best Classical Instrumental Solo category and received one of Lincoln Center’s prestigious Emerging Artist Awards: the special Hunt Family Award. Other recent honors include a 2018 Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship and a 2016 Avery Fisher Career Grant\, Silver Medalist in the 9th Quadrennial International Violin Competition of Indianapolis\, and winner of the 2012 Naumburg International Violin Competition.  \nShe solos regularly with many of the major orchestras around the world\, from the Royal Scottish National Orchestra to Seattle Symphony\, and has appeared in recital in such prestigious venues and series as Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw and Carnegie Hall’s Distinctive Debuts series in Weill Hall (2017). \nShe is also a highly acclaimed fiddler in the tradition of her native Kentucky\, delighting audiences with programming that includes Appalachian and bluegrass music and inspiring composers to write for her – most notably SKY\, a bluegrass-inspired violin concerto written for Tessa by Michael Torke which earned both a GRAMMY nomination for Tessa and a Pulitzer finalist distinction for Torke. \nLark is a graduate of New England Conservatory and completed her Artist Diploma at The Juilliard School. She plays a ca. 1600 G.P. Maggini violin on loan from an anonymous donor through the Stradivari Society of Chicago. \nLearn more on her website at www.tessalark.com \n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n John Corigliano\, composer\n “Tessa Lark embodies joy in music making. She is a real master of our art… Her understanding of my music\, uncannily\, rivals my own.” \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n On Youtube \n \n \n \n \n \n Frank Vignola\nEnjoy Frank Vignola’s full collection of live performance videos and more on his YouTube channel: \n \n More on YouTube URL:https://www.musicworcester.org/event/lark-vignola/ LOCATION:Tuckerman Hall\, 10 Tuckerman Street\, Worcester\, Massachusetts\, 01609 CATEGORIES:contemporary,jazz ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.musicworcester.org/wp-content/uploads/fvtl-new-slide.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR