Classical Music Goes to the Movies

Read our guest artist’s bio here.

'Classical Music Goes to the Movies' will be presented on Sunday, March 9 at 3:00 p.m. at Holy Name Parish Upper Church, 1689 Centre Street, West Roxbury. Music Director and Conductor Geneviève Leclair has chosen a lively program featuring the Barber of Seville Overture, Pomp and Circumstance, Beautiful Blue Danube and the second movement from Beethoven's Symphony No. 7. Clarinetist Alexis Lanz will be featured in the Mozart Clarinet Concerto. The Holy Name Adult Choir, directed by Thomas Manguem, will perform 'How Lovely are thy Messengers' by Felix Mendelssohn.

This concert is presented by Holy Name Enrichment Program and is sponsored by Vogt Realty Group in memory of Gene and Ann Vogt. During intermission, the audience will have a chance to meet and learn about the orchestra instruments at an instrument petting zoo. Concert admission is free. For more information please call 617-325-9338.

The Program:

Classical Music Goes to the Movies

Gioacchino Rossini (arr.: Merle J. Isaac)
The Barber of Seville Overture
 
Brian Bell, Assistant Conductor
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Clarinet Concerto, K. 622
 
Alexis Lanz, clarinet
Allegro – Adagio – Allegro
Intermission
Felix Mendelssohn
How Lovely are thy Messengers (from St. Paul, Op. 36)
 
Holy Name Adult Choir
Thomas Manguem, Director
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 7, Op. 92, Mvt. 2 (Allegretto)
 
Johann Strauss (arr: Henry Sopkin)
Blue Danube Waltz, Op. 314
 
Edward Elgar
Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1
 

Alexis Lanz

clarinet soloist Alexis Lanz portraitBorn in Nyon, Switzerland, Alexis Lanz currently resides in Jamaica Plain, MA, where he maintains a multi-faceted performing career. As an orchestral musician, he has been principal clarinetist of the Boston Ballet Orchestra since 2011, and also appears regularly as principal clarinetist of Discovery Ensemble.

An ardent promoter of contemporary classical music, Mr. Lanz is a member of both Sound Icon and the Callithumpian Consort, with which he has premiered works by many notable composers including Chaya Czernowin, Alvin Lucier, Joshua Fineburg, and Rand Steiger.

He has performed in numerous musical festivals, including the Tanglewood Music Center, where he was awarded the Gino B. Cioffi Memorial Prize, the Atlantic Music Festival, the Summer Institute of Contemporary Performing Practice, the New York String Orchestra Seminar and the National Orchestral Institute.

Alexis completed his studies at the New England Conservatory, where he received Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees. His teachers include National Symphony clarinetist Edward Cabarga, and Thomas Martin of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

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