Invitation to Musica Viva Concert
Music of Johann Sebastian Bach



Sunday October 26, 2008
5:00 pm

All Souls Unitarian Church
1157 Lexington Ave (80th Street)




Program
-Mass in A
-Orchestral Suite in B minor
featuring Sandra Miller (baroque flute soloist)
-Cantata BWV 150 Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich
-Motet BWV 226 Der Geist Hilft

I would like to invite all my Baroque music lover friends to the "All Bach Concert" with Musica Viva Choir directed by Maestro Walter Klauss. The concert will also feature a wonderful flute soloist, Sandra Miller, my first baroque flute professor in New York. I feel privileged to play second flute for this occasion. Please come and rejoice all the heavenly music with us!!

Musica Viva Choir












Walter Klauss, Director
Sandra Miller











with Sandy











For more information contact:

Musica Viva of New York
info@musicaviva.org
1157 Lexington Ave
New York, NY 10075
(212) 794-3646

Amato Opera Guild
Woodwind Quintet


Left to Right:

Sang Joon Park (flute)
Barbara Cohen (oboe)
Nancy J. Vizza (french horn)
Zachary Cummings (bassoon)
Fred Rosenberg (clarinet)

Upcoming Performances at the Amato Opera

Verdi and his Librettists

Sunday October 5, 2008 2:30 pm

Sally Amato Opera Guild Woodwind Quintet

-I will be leading the Opera Guild Woodwind Quintet with all Verdi program: Overture from La Traviata, Grand Quartet from Rigoletto, and two movements from his rarely performed String Quartet (arranged for woodwind quintet).


Three performances of
Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata


Saturday October 18, 2008
7:30 pm
Sunday November 2, 2008
2:30 pm
Saturday November 15, 2008
7:30 pm


-I will play principal flute in one of Verdi's most beloved operas, La Traviata (1853), based on the novel La Dame aux camélias (1848) by Alexandre Dumas, fils (Junior), which was adapted for the stage in 1852. Don't forget to bring your handkerchief!! (click on each picture to view full size)

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Adelina Patti (1843-1919) as Violetta











Alexandre Dumas, fils (1824-1895)
Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923)
one of the greatest Camille on stage











Read on Wikipedia:

La Traviata
Giuseppe Verdi
Adelina Patti
Alexandre Dumas, fils
Sarah Bernhardt
La Dame aux camélias