Where can you celebrate Valentine’s Day, Presidents Day, Black History Month, Armed Forces Day, Super Bowl Sunday, Mardi Gras and St. Patrick’s Day all at once? Come to the free Silverwood Clarinet Choir concert tonight, Friday, Feb. 10.
The Community Library of DeWitt & Jamesville will be open for the concert, which will be held in the lower-level reading room. The library, located at 5110 Jamesville Road in DeWitt, will begin letting concertgoers in at 6:30 p.m. with the performance scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. Do not pay attention to Google if it tells you the library is closed.
This widely diversified concert, titled “Musical Wanderings,” will feature music from composers including Prokofiev, Grainger, Joplin, Rodgers and Hart, Sousa, Bizet and original clarinet choir compositions by Cardon and Gray. Frederick Willard is conducting Silverwood and arranged a special piece for this concert. Free registration is accepted at the library and on Facebook.
Frederick Willard began his professional career working with legendary Broadway orchestrator Michael Gibson on “Meet Me In St. Louis,” “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” “Cabaret” and “Anything Goes” with Patti LuPone.
On his own, he has composed, orchestrated, written lyrics, conducted or played keyboards all over the world, including writing for Lionel Hampton, Melba Moore, Ann Hampton Callaway, and Syracuse’s own Ronnie Leigh.
Mr. Willard has served on the faculties of NYU/Tisch School of the Arts, Syracuse University, Cortland State and currently with the Syracuse City School District. He holds two master’s degrees from Syracuse University, with additional study at the Manhattan School of Music and the Goldovsky Opera Workshop.
The ten-member Silverwood Clarinet Choir performs on clarinets encompassing all the voices of a true choir. Founded in 2006, the creative group performs original compositions as well as arrangements of well-known pieces—music in all styles and from around the world. The ensemble plays music that is both entertaining and challenging and performs throughout the Central New York area.
For more information, call Kenneth Freer at 315-682-6481, contact [email protected] or visit www.silverwoodclarinet.com.
People can also register for the concert through the “Events” section of the website cldandj.org.
