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St Paul Lutheran Church

Time for Two

Music at Saint Paul’s and Con Vivo Music present Time for Two. Join us for a Sunday afternoon performance by cellist Søren Beech and pianist Teresa Shyr!

Time for Two
Sun, June 11 @ 4:00pm
St. Paul Lutheran Church – 440 Hoboken Ave, Jersey City, NJ
FREE, all ages welcome

Program
Sonata No.6 for Violoncello and Piano – Antonio Vivaldi
12 Variations on a Theme from Handel’s Judas Maccabeus – Ludwig van Beethoven
Five Pieces in Folk Style, Op. 102 – Robert Schumann
Vocalise, Op. 34, no. 14 – Sergei Rachmaninoff
At the Fountain – Karl Davydov

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CVM works to ensure that our concerts are accessible to all. If you require a special accommodation or have specific questions, please contact us prior to your visit.

CVM’s 2023 Season is supported by The Langworthy Foundation.

This program is made possible by a grant from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a division of the Department of State, and administered by the Hudson County Office of Cultural & Heritage Affairs, Thomas A. DeGise, Hudson County Executive & the Hudson County Board of County Commissioners.

Supported by public funds from the Jersey City Arts and Cultural Trust Fund.

American Art Song

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Explore the art song through American composers in a program featuring vocalists Sarah Nelson Craft and Barry L Robinson. The concert will span America’s rich heritage of musical styles including classical, jazz, musical theater, and spirituals from composers Aaron Copland, Charles Ives, Margaret Bonds, Henry Thacker Burleigh, Cole Porter, George Gershwin, and CVM’s own Mazz Swift.

American Art Song
FREE, all ages welcome
Saturday, July 9 @ 1pm
St. Paul Lutheran Church – 440 Hoboken Ave, Jersey City, NJ
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Program
Aaron Copland: Selections from Old American Songs I & II
Charles Ives: Songs My Mother Taught Me, The Circus Band, The Things Our Fathers Loved, and The New River
Cole Porter: So In Love
George Gershwin: Embraceable You
Margaret Bonds: The Negro Speaks of Rivers (lyrics by Langston Hughes)
John W. Work This Little Light O’ Mine
Spiritual: Deep River
Henry Thacker Burleigh: Southland Sketches for violin and piano
George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue *abridged, arr. by Christopher Cooley
Mazz Swift: Compassion Through LovingKindness Meditation for violin and voice

Performed by Sarah Nelson Craft (mezzo-soprano), Barry L Robinson (baritone), Mazz Swift (violin), and Christopher Cooley (piano).

This program is made possible in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a partner agency of The National Endowment for the Arts, administered by the Hudson County Office of Cultural & Heritage Affairs, Thomas A. Degise, County Executive, and the Board of Chosen Freeholders.

CVM Presents: RAHA Duo

RAHA Duo

CVM founder Amelia Hollander Ames returns for the Jersey City debut of her group RAHA Duo (violist Amelia Hollander Ames and pianist Elaine Rombola Aveni). RAHA will present a wide-ranging program of music by Ginastera, Schumann, and Shostakovich, as well as NYC-based composer Daniel Felsenfeld ​(his “Hooked to the Silver Screen,” based on David Bowie’s “Life on Mars”) ​and Miami-based composer Lansing McLoskey​ (“Wild Bells”)​.

The RAHA Duo is violist Amelia Hollander Ames and pianist Elaine Rombola Aveni. The two met at New England Conservatory, where they collaborated for Amelia’s graduate recital. Flash forward a decade or so: after Amelia returned to Boston, they reunited to play ​a show at Cambridge’s Lilypad Gallery. The show was praised by the Boston Musical Intelligencer as “definitely a quality offering” filled with “poised and accomplished playing.” Now Elaine and Amelia are delighted to bring their program of 20th and 21st century music (along with Robert Schumann’s romantic and whimsical “Fairy Tale Pictures” as a palate cleanser) to Amelia’s hometown of Jersey City, NJ.

CVM Presents: RAHA Duo
Sunday, April 17 @ 5pm
St. Paul Lutheran Church – 440 Hoboken Ave, Jersey City, NJ
Free, $15 suggested donation
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Program:
Albert Ginasterao – Suite de Danzas Criolles, Opus 15
Daniel Felsenfeld – Hooked to the Silver Screen
Lansing McLoskey – Wild Bells
Robert Schumann – Märchenbilder (Fairy Tale Pictures)
Dmitri Shostakovich – Sonata for Viola and Piano

Amelia Hollander Ames, viola
Elaine Rombola Aveni, piano

Handel’s Messiah

Handel's Messiah

CVM is pleased to partner with St Paul Lutheran Church in a production of Handel’s Messiah. Audiences are treated to the Christmas portions of Messiah every year. The Passion and Easter portions – which happen to be where we find the famous Hallelujah Chorus – not so much. St. Paul’s music director Christopher Greene aims to change that with a performance of these neglected portions of Handel’s majestic work on Sunday, March 20 (Palm Sunday) at 6pm.

A new 16-voice choir, the St. Paul’s Singers, will be accompanied by a nine-piece orchestra from Con Vivo Music. Vocal soloists are Darlene Southard Wyzga, soprano; Allison Gish, contralto; David Kellett, tenor; and James Splond, bass.

Handel’s Messiah
Sunday, March 20 @ 6pm
St. Paul Lutheran Church – 440 Hoboken Ave, Jersey City, NJ
$20 tickets, buy online

Thanks for making Perfect Lives Jersey City great!

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Wow, we had an amazing time performing Perfect Lives Jersey City. Thank you to our supportive audience for coming out in numbers and traveling with us throughout the day. You made it a truly unforgettable event for us!

CVM would like to thank Art House Productions for their huge help co-producing the event, our sponsors Remco Press and Barrow Mansion for their generous support, The Jersey City Office of Cultural Affairs, The Hudson County Office of Cultural & Heritage Affairs, our event manager Amanda Pinto, our designer Helen Yi, and Mimi Johnson.

We also can’t thank enough our venue partners who were incredibly supportive of this event: All About Downtown Street Fair, Provident Bank, Key Food, St Paul Lutheran Church, The Historic Jersey City & Harsimus Cemetery, Barrow Mansion, and The Brightside Tavern.

At last but certainly not least, thank you to the incredible Varispeed (Brian McCorkle, Paul Pinto, Gelsey Bell, Dave Ruder, Aliza Simons) for arranging Robert Ashley’s Perfect Lives, rehearsing, and performing all of the episodes you heard and to our talented instrumentalists who joined us throughout the day: Jen Baker (trombone), Jenny Yum (violin), Sean-David Cunningham (violin), Michael Davis (viola), Meaghan Burke (cello), Esha Datta (voice), Meredyth Morrison (voice), Chris Ellmann (voice), Marcus Jordan (voice), Zach Herchen (saxophone), Mike Sperone (percussion), and Woody Leslie (tabla).

Check out more picture from the day on our Facebook page.

6th Annual Bach Concert

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CVM continues our yearly tradition with the 6th Annual Bach Concert! This year’s event will feature internationally-known soloists oboist Christa Robinson and violinist Amie Weiss. Music of Bach, Falconieri, Vivaldi, Zelenka, and Boston-based composer Balint Karosi.

FREE, all ages welcome
Sunday, May 17 @ 5pm
St. Paul Lutheran Church – 440 Hoboken Ave, Jersey City, NJ

Christa Robinson – oboe
Amie Weiss – violin
Carolyn Jeselsohn – cello
Andrew Roitstein – bass
Ben Grow – harpsichord

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This program is made possible in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, administered by the Hudson County Office of Cultural & Heritage Affairs, Thomas A. DeGise, County Executive, and the Board of Chosen Freeholders.

An Evening of Art Song this Sunday

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Join Con Vivo as we celebrate the art song with mezzo-soprano Sarah Nelson Craft and pianist Paul Vasile! This varied and beautiful program includes music by Benjamin Britten, Claude Debussy, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Franz Schubert, and George Gershwin.

FREE! all ages welcome
Sunday, Nov 9 @ 5pm
St Paul Lutheran Church – 440 Hoboken Ave, Jersey City, NJ (near Journal Square PATH)

Ms. Craft has performed at the Caramoor Festival, Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall, China’s Macau International Music Festival, with the New Jersey Festival Orchetra, on NPR’s This American Live live at BAM, and more. We’re excited to have her performing for Con Vivo before she travels to Paris to participate in “The Song Continues: Paris Residency” presented by Carnegie Hall at the Opéra Bastille.

Mr. Vasile’s wide-ranging talents and musical interests provide frequent opportunities to perform as a pianist, conductor and concert organist. He has performed in his own recitals of American Romantic organ music in Germany, Latvia and in New York City, including several performances on the historic Appleton pipe organ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.



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