Emmanuel Music and Arts Series (EMAS)

Spring 2008 Concert Schedule

O'Sullivan Meets O'Farrell

Grammy Award-winning uilleann piper Jerry O’Sullivan with members of the
Newport Baroque Orchestra
Sunday, 24 February at 3:00pm

Master uilleann piper Jerry O’Sullivan joins Newport Baroque Orchestra members Paul and Audrey Cienniwa for a concert of 18th-century Irish music for pipes, cello and harpsichord.

Jerry O'Sullivan has been widely hailed as America's premier uilleann piper. His reputation for technical and melodic mastery of the instrument, an Irish bagpipe known for its subtlety and expression, is unsurpassed in the United States, and is demanding considerable attention overseas.

O’Sullivan has appeared on more than 90 albums and has performed or recorded with artists such as The Boston Pops, Don Henley, Paul Winter, James Galway, Dolly Parton, The Colorado Symphony Orchestra, The Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Eileen Ivers, and many others. He was a featured soloist on Paul Winter's GRAMMY winning album, Celtic Solstice (Living Music, 1999). His first two solo albums, The Gift (Shanachie,1998), and The Invasion (Green Linnet, 1987) have both received critical acclaim, quickly finding their way to the top of a number of "best albums of the year" lists. Jerry has just recently released a new solo album, O'Sullivan Meets O'Farrell (Jerry O'Sullivan Music, 2005), which features music from the 200 year old O'Farrell tutor and tune collections. Jerry has also recorded a number of film soundtracks including From Shore to Shore, The Long Journey Home, Far and Away, Africans in America, and Out of Ireland, and has appeared on numerous television commercials.

The Newport Baroque Orchestra presents Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons

With violinist Robert Mealy - “New York’s world-class Early- Music Violinist,”(the New Yorker)
Two performances at Emmanuel!
Friday – 6 June at 8:00pm
Saturday – 7 June at 8:00pm

Newport Baroque Orchestra joins forces with ““New York's world-class early music violinist” Robert Mealy in a performance of Vivaldi’s celebrated Four Seasons. The program will also feature soprano Mary Therese Royal de Martinez performing 17th-century Italian arias. Martinez will also introduce each of Vivaldi’s seasons with the original sonnets that Vivaldi wrote to accompany each season.

About Robert Mealy...

One of America’s leading baroque violinists, Robert Mealy has been praised for his “imagination, taste, subtlety, and daring” by the Boston Globe; the New Yorker recently called him “New York’s world-class early music violinist.” He has recorded over 50 CDs of early music on most major labels, ranging from Hildegard of Bingen with Sequentia, to Renaissance consorts with the Boston Camerata, to Rameau operas with Les Arts Florissants. He has toured with the Mark Morris Dance Company and accompanied Renée Fleming on the David Letterman Show.

In 2004 Mr. Mealy was appointed concertmaster of the internationally-acclaimed Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, and led them in their recent recording of Lully’s Thésée, as well as their Grammy-nominated recording of Conradi’s Ariadne, and the modern premiere of Mattheson’s Boris Godenouw. The Boston Phoenix remarked of the Boris production that “the most exceptional music came from the pit. Concertmaster Robert Mealy played more music than anyone onstage or off, every measure of it with erudition and compelling energy.”

Tickets available from ArtTix or through the NBO website.

Thank You

The Keep the Music Alive! New Orleans to Rhode Island Jazz Weekend

Our Keep the Music Alive! Jazz Weekend was a tremendous success. We have been able to send $2500 to St. Anna’s Mission to Musicians. The work of St. Anna ’s and the New Orleans Musicians’ Clinic continues however. You can still make a contribution to aid the work and mission of St. Anna ’s through our donation page (see button below). Thanks for your continuing prayers and support.