...a twenty-voice ensemble with wide-ranging and adventurous repertoire, based in Columbus, Ohio.
2010-2011 Season
The Magpies. Gypsies & Sailors All! - Spring 2010 - photo courtesy Ed Crockett
We start our 2010-11 season with one last performance of our popular program Gypsies & Sailors, featuring songs of travel, exploration, pilgrimage - and the journey of life itself. We are joined by the lively Jeff White (percussion) and the excellent Nancy Kangas (spoken word) in a program that includes sea shanties, gypsy songs, spirituals, medieval pilgrim dances, and great poetry, all performed in the beautiful venue of St Leo Church (south of German Village - map below). Please join us!
Songs of travel, exploration, pilgrimage, exile, escape, and the journey of life itself - featuring sea shanties, medieval pilgrim dances, spirituals, songs from China, the Faeroe Islands, and South Africa, excerpts from Brahms' Zigeunerlieder (Gypsy Songs), and finally a voyage along the Milky Way, in the form of Dream Songs by Sheena Phillips.
Saturday September 25, 2010, 8 pm - St. Leo Church, 221 Hanford St., Columbus (map)
Admission free, suggested donation $10
Our Gypsies & Sailors program is generously supported by the Greater Columbus Arts Council
A GARLAND FOR ADVENT
Our December program includes a feast of traditional, renaissance, and contemporary music on Advent and holiday themes. We bring you delightful songs about messenger birds, the miraculous Advent rose, evergreen trees, a waiting earth in need of love, and glorious settings of poetry and psalm texts by Buxtehude and Monteverdi. As usual, the Magpie program is drawn from sources far and wide.
The 20 singers of the Magpie Consort are joined by Ian Jones and Sarah Case (violin), Nancy Nehring and Rachel Frank (viola), Mark Rudoff (cello), Jeff White (percussion) and Jennifer Bell (organ). On December 12, we are also joined by the choir of St Francis of Assisi, directed by Phil Adams.
Sunday December 5, 2010, 4:00pm - Trinity Episcopal Church, 76 E Main Street, Newark (map)
Admission free, suggested donation $10
Saturday December 11, 2010, 7:30pm - St John's Episcopal Church, 700 High St, Worthington (map)
Admission free, suggested donation $10
Sunday December 12, 2010, 6 pm - St Francis of Assisi Church, 386 Buttles Ave, Columbus (map)
Also featuring the choir of St Francis.
Admission free, suggested donation $10.
The collection at Trinity on December 5 will go to the Licking County Coalition of Care
The collection at St Francis on December 12 will go to Mid-Ohio Foodbank
CANDLELIGHT NIGHT
An hour of holiday music from the Magpies in the delightful setting of Franklin Park Conservatory, amid hundreds of twinkling holiday lights, and decorative plants. Take a moment to visit the Dale Chihuly glass artwork, under dramatic evening lighting, at the same time.
Wednesday December 29, 2010, 5-8 pm (Magpies perform at 6:30) - Franklin Park Conservatory, 1777 E Broad Street, Columbus (map)
Free with admission to the Conservatory
RANDY FOSTER MEMORIAL CONCERT
The Magpie Consort and Carpe Diem string quartet
Wednesday December 15, 2010, 7:00pm - Summit on 16th United Methodist Church, 82 E. 16th Ave, Columbus (map)
Randy Foster (1949- 2010) was a generous patron of classical music in Columbus. Before his death this year from cancer, he asked the Magpie Consort and Carpe Diem (with whom he worked in putting on concerts in nursing homes) to play a memorial concert for him. This concert will include the Buxtehude and Monteverdi pieces from our A Garland for Advent program, as well as contributions from the wonderful Carpe Diem string quartet, performed in Summit's attractive sanctuary.
Admission free, suggested donation $10
THE GARDEN
Our spring program brings you music about flowers and birds, field and garden. Beautiful and breathtaking, cheerful and heart-breaking: choral writing and folk songs about spring flowers, summer dreams, fruit trees, and the sounds of nightingales, cuckoos, blackbirds, thrushes, and bumble bees.
Featuring music by Clement Janequin, Thomas Morley, Vaughan Williams, John Dowland, Jackson Hill, Abbie Betinis, Sheena Phillips, and others, plus folk songs from Venezuela, England, Scotland, and Bulgaria.
Saturday May 7, 2011, 8 pm - Maynard Avenue United Methodist Church, 2350 Indianola Ave, Columbus (map)
Admission free, suggested donation $10
Sunday May 8, 2011, 2 pm - Franklin Park Conservatory, 1777 E Broad Street, Columbus (map)
Free with admission to the conservatory
Saturday May 14, 2011, 8 pm - St Leo Church, 221 Hanford St., Columbus (map)
Admission free, suggested donation $10
Sunday May 15, 2011, 4 pm - Redeemer Lutheran Church, 1555 S James Rd, Columbus (map)
Admission free, suggested donation $10
Our spring 2011 performances are supported by a Franklin County Neighborhood Arts Grant from the Greater Columbus Arts Council
