Free Public Concert No. 3
Manhattan Chamber Players and Faylotte Crayton, Soprano

Felicity Church (BYOB)
Sunday, October 15, 2023
Doors: 4:30 PM
Pre-Concert Talk and Q&A: 5 PM
Concert: 5:30 PM

Ensemble-in-Residence the Manhattan Chamber Players is joined by acclaimed soprano Faylotte Crayton for a concert of contemplative, transcendent music by Richard Strauss and Chris Rogerson, closing with Ottorino Respighi’s “Il Tramonto” (“The Sunset”). Enjoy this beautiful program against the backdrop of the sunset in the historic Felicity Church!

CCCMF Artistic Director Luke Fleming gives an informal Pre-Concert Talk and Q&A at 5 PM.

Feel free to BYOB and enjoy this inspiring evening of music making!

Program:

Ning Kam (b. 1975)
Amazing Grace Variations (2013)

Richard Strauss (1864 – 1949)
Sextet from Capriccio (1941)

Chris Rogerson (b. 1988)
Shadows Lengthen (2015)
“Quasi una ciacona” from Thirty Thousand Days for Clarinet Quintet (2017)

Ottorino Respighi (1879 – 1936)
Il Tramonto (“The Sunset”) (1914)

Manhattan Chamber Players

Mark Dover, Clarinet
Siwoo Kim, Violin
Grace Park, Violin
Brendan Speltz, Violin/Viola
Luke Fleming, Viola
Pierre Lapointe, Viola
Brook Speltz, Cello
Jacob Fowler, Cello

with

Faylotte Joy Crayton, Soprano