Sample Programs
Ritz
Chamber Players with musicians from the
Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival
Amelia Island, Florida
Friday, June 16, 2006
Maurice Ravel Five Popular Greek Songs for soprano
and Harp
Franz Schubert Shepherd On The Rock (Der Hirt Auf
Dem Felsen) Op.129
Eugène Ysaye Opus 27 Sonata no. 4
Joaquin Turina Theme and Variation for Harp and Piano
Ludwig van Beethoven Septet for strings & woodwinds
in E flat major
Ann Hobson-Pilot – Harp, Alison Buchanan – Soprano, Tai Murray
– Violin, Robert Watt – Horn, Joshua Hood – Bassoon,
Terrance Patterson – Clarinet, Joshua Hood – Bassoon, Robert
Watt – Horn, Christopher Rex – Cello and Deborah Dunham –
Bass
Ritz Chamber Players
First and Franklin Street Church
Baltimore, Maryland
Saturday, April 1, 2006
Bernhard Heinrik Crusell Clarinet Quartet Op. 2 No.
1
Camille Saint-Saens Fantaisie for Violin and Harp
William Grant Still Ennanga for Harp, Piano and Strings
Johannes Brahms Piano Quartet in G minor, Op. 25
Ann Hobson-Pilot – Harp, Tai Murray and Mellasenah Edwards –
Violins Amadi Hummings – Viola; Troy Stuart – Cello Terrance
Patterson – Clarinet and Terrence Wilson – Piano
Ritz Chamber Players
with Oliver Tobin and Erica Dankmeyer from the
Martha Graham Dance Company
Let's Dance!
Saturday, March 11, 2006
Claude Debussy "Petite Suite" (Four Pieces
for piano duet)
Antonin Dvorak Slavonic Dances - Piano, Four Hands,
Op.72, Book 1
Darius Milhaud
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson Lamentations: A Black
Folk Song Suite for Solo Cello
Terrence Wilson and Kevin Sharpe – Piano, Tahirah Whittington –
Cello, Oliver Tobin, Dancer and Erica Dankmeyer – Dancer, Choreographer
Ritz Chamber Players
Lou Rawls Center for the Performing Arts/Florida Memorial
University
Miami, Florida
Sunday, October 16, 2005
James Weldon Johnson Lift Every Voice and Sing
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Parto! Ma tu ben mio from
'La Clemenza di Tito'
Giacomo Puccini Vissi D'arte - (Tosca)
Jerome Kern Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man (Showboat)
Johannes Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34a
Summertime George Gershwin (Porgy & Bess)
Whole world – arr. Margaret Bonds
William Grant Still "Ennanga” for Harp,
Piano and Strings Quartet and Bass
Ann Hobson-Pilot – Harp, Alison Buchanan – Soprano, Kyle
Lombard, Mellasenah Edwards – Violins, Amadi Hummings – Viola,
Troy Stuart – Cello, Jackie Pickett – Bass and Kevin Sharpe
– Piano
Ritz Chamber Players
Jazz at Lincoln Center
Frederick P. Rose Hall
New York, NY 10023
May 14, 2006
Bernhard Heinrik Crusell Clarinet Quartet Op. 2 No.
1
Vincent Persichetti Serenade No. 10 for Flute and
Harp Op. 79
T.J. Anderson Game Play: for flute, viola, cello,
and harp (2001) New York Premiere
Plenty Good Room arr. Jacqueline B. Hairston
I'm Goin' Home On Mornin' Train unaccompanied
God Is A God arr. Jacqueline B. Hairston
My Good Lord's Done Been Here Adapted for Ritz Chamber
Players by Paul Hamilton
Johannes Brahms Piano Quartet in G minor, Op. 25
Ann Hobson-Pilot – Harp, Robert Sims – Baritone, Judy Dines
– Flute, Kelly Hall-Tompkins – Violin, Amadi Hummings –
Viola, Kenneth Law – Cello and Terrence Wilson – Piano
Ritz Chamber Players
In Remembrance of the Dream
Martin Luther King, Jr., Humanitarian Award and Concert
Saturday, January 14, 2006
Times Union Center for the Performing Arts
Jacksonville, Florida 32202
Hugo Wolf Italian Serenade in G major
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Trio in E-flat K 498, "Kegelstatt"
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson String Quartet No.1 “Based
on Calvary!”
Antonin Dvorák Piano Quintet in A Major, Op.81
Kelly Hall-Tompkins and Kyle Lombard – Violins, Amadi Hummings
– Viola, Troy Stuart – Cello Terrance Patterson – Clarinet
and Kevin Sharpe – Piano
Ritz Chamber Players
For Love of the Holiday
Times Union Center for the Performing Arts
Jacksonville, Florida 32202
Antoni Szalowski Duo for Flute and Clarinet
Frank Martin Trois Chants de Noel poet - Albert Rudhardt
(voice, flute and piano)
Alto E Glorioso Dio Stephania de Kenessey (text St.
Francis of Assisi)
Sister Mary had-a but one child -arr. Roland Hayes
Rise up, shepherd and follow - arr. Marvin MIlls
Maurice Ravel Chansons madécasses, song cycle
for soprano voice, flute, cello & piano
Tania León 1943 - Parajota Delaté
(1988)
Anton Arensky Piano TrioNo. 1 in D minor opus
32
Judy Dines – Flute, Terrance Patterson – Clarinet, Alison
Buchanan – Soprano, Kelly Hall-Tompkins, Kenneth Law – Cello
and Kevin Sharpe – Piano
Ritz Chamber Players
A New Day: Spring Concert
March 19, 2005
Terry Theater - Times Union Center for the Performing Arts
Jacksonville, Florida 32202
Ralph Vaughan Williams Vocalise for Soprano and Clarinet
Franz Schubert Romanza for soprano, clarinet, and
piano
Igor Stravinsky L' Histoire du Soldat (The Soldier's
Tale)
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson Five Songs from “Thirteen
Jazz Settings”
Johannes Brahms Piano Trio No. 1 in B major, opus
8
Tai Murray – Violin, Kenneth Law – Cello, Kevin Sharpe
– Piano Alison Buchanan – Soprano and Terrance Patterson –
Clarinet
The Ritz Chamber Players
Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival
Thursday, June 2 2005, 7:30 PM
Prince of Peace Lutheran Church
Heitor Villa-Lobos Assobio a Játo (The Jet
Whistle)
William Grant Still From the Hearts of Women Strings
Flute Piano soprano and Clarinet
Mili Balakirev Islamey (Oriental Fantasy)
Camille Saint-Saëns Fantaisie Op.124, for Violin
and Harp
Andre Previn Four Songs for Soprano, cello, and piano
Text by: Toni Morrison
Maurice Ravel Introduction and Allegro for Flute,
Clarinet, Harp and Strings
Ann Hobson-Pilot – Harp, Demarre McGill – Flute, Terrance
Patterson – Clarinet, Beth Newdome – Violin, Tai Murray –
Violin, Geraldine Walthers – Viola, Christopher Rex – Cello
Alison Buchanan – Soprano, Terrence Wilson – Piano and Jackie
Pickett – Bass
The Ritz Chamber Players
Ohio State University Contemporary Music Festival
Sunday, January 30, 2005
Weigel Auditorium
Alvin Singleton Between Sisters (1990) Text
by Rita Dove
Adolphus Hailstork Summer.Life.Song (2004) A
Cycle of Poems of Emily Dickinson
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson String Trio (2004)
Tania León Oh Yemanja (1994)
Jonathan Bailey Holland Between Days (2003)
World Premiere
Olly Wilson A City Called Heaven (1989)
Demarre McGill, flute, Terrance Patterson, clarinet, Tai Murray, violin,
Orlando Wells, viola, Troy Stuart, cello, Terrance Wilson, piano, Susan
Powell, Joseph Krygier (guest artists), percussion, Russel Mikkelson (guest
artist), conductor
Ritz Chamber Players
Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall
Saturday, June 26
New York, New York 10019
Sergei Prokofiev Overture on Hebrew Themes Clarinet,
string quartet, & piano, Op. 34
Alvin Singleton Jasper Drag (New York Premiere)
Clarinet, violin & piano
Jonathan B. Holland Little Elegy Youth, Day,
Old Age and Night
Coleridge Taylor-Perkinson - From Thirteen Jazz Settings
Adolphus Hailstork - Summer. Life. Song. A Cycle
on Poems of Emily Dickinson (World Premiere) Soprano, string quartet,
& clarinet
Johannes Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34a
Alison Buchanan – Soprano, Tai Murray and Mellasenah Edwards –
Violins, Amadi Hummings – Viola Troy Stuart – Cello, Kevin
Sharpe – Piano and Terrance Patterson – Clarinet
