In the Bleak
Midwinter
chamber music of reflection and repose
23 January 2026
7pm
UUCWI - Freeland
Unitarian Universalist Congregration
20103 SR 525
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$25 Suggested Donation​
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Program to include music by: ​
Holst/Rosetti
Claude Debussy
Franz Schubert
Anton Bruckner
Francis Poulenc
Rich O'Donnell
Fanny Mendelssohn
Sting
Over the Rhine
Ralph Vaughan Williams
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Performers include Karen Heather, Melanie Lowey, Susan Baer, Eileen Soskin, Robert Finke, Erica Montgomery, Rickey Barnett, Jonathan Cluts, Amber Gauthier, and the Aureate Trombones, bringing together a rich blend of instrumental voices in an intimate chamber setting.
In the Bleak Midwinter - Holst/Rosetti
Melanie Lowey, soprano, Susan Baer, violin, Karen Heather, piano
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Locus Iste - Anton Bruckner
​O Magnum Mysterium – Francis Poulenc
Winter Folk Song – A. Leontyev
Aureate Trombones
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Des pas sur la neige (Footsteps in the Snow) - Claude Debussy
Karen Heather, piano
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​January from "Das Jahr" – Fanny Mendelssohn
Eileen Soskin, piano​​
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Der Leiermann from "Die Winterreise", op. 89, D. 911 – Franz Schubert
Robert Finke, baritone and Eileen Soskin, piano
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MicroTimbre - Rich O’Donnell
Erica Montgomery, amplified Tam Tam
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Six Studies in English Folk Songs – Ralph Vaughan Williams
I. Adagio (Lovely on the Water)
II. Andante sostenuto (Spurn Point)
Prelude from “Five Bagatelles” - Gerald Finzi
Rickey Barnett, clarinet and Karen Heather, piano
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The Winter’s Willow – Ralph Vaughan Williams
Melanie Lowey, soprano and Karen Heather, piano
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The Snow it Melts Soonest, (English Folk Song) arr. Sting
Amber Gauthier, soprano and Karen Heather, piano
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Let it Fall – Over the Rhine (Detweiler, Ciccone)
Amber Gauthier, soprano & Jonathan Cluts, tenor, Karen Heather, piano
