Evening of Dinner and Music: Wade Davis plays the Bach cello suites.

Invitation: 10 September 2017: Wade Davis plays the Bach cello suites.

What: An evening of Bach cello suites
When: Sunday 10 September 2017 at 5pm
Where: the home of Paul on TV Hill in Baltimore Maryland.
Who: Wade Davis and JS Bach
Dress: For comfort (shorts is fine!)
Cost: $20
Performer Bios: Wade Davis
Future dates to hold: 29 September and 1 October 2017

Dear Friends,

As summer draws to a close (already???) it’s time to begin gathering for our monthly Evenings of Dinner and Music, again.

I hope that you will join me in an evening of the famous and wonderful Bach cello suites, performed by the extraordinarily talented Wade Davis. These suites are among the best known and most beloved, even revered of the cello repretoir. They have certainly been among my musical obsessions for a long time.

Timing: disciplined
As usual, we will gather at 5pm, and will make a point of starting the recital at about 5:20pm. The goal is to end the evening, both the recital and the dinner, in plenty of time for the DC folk to travel home and be snug in bed by about 9:30pm on a "school night."

Menu: Fresh from the Baltimore Farmer’s Market
As usual for my events, our evening includes dinner. Although it will almost be fall, we will still be in the midst of our summer plenty at the Baltimore Farmer’s Market. Our menu is still TBD at this point, but, since it is likely to still be pretty warm here in Baltimore on 10 September, I am expecting that our menu will be mostly cold items.

Dress: informal
As many of you already know, my place is 'teeny tiny' and our seating space is limited. It is likely to be downright HOT in Baltimore on the 10th of September. I have AC units, but, what with the door opening and closing and the crowd, it is likely to be a little warm. Shorts and a T-shirt are entirely appropriate for this event (and even kind of recommended if the weather turns hot).

Performer Bios

Wade Davis, cellist, is a much sought after solo artist, chamber music collaborator and teacher. He has attended such festivals as the Seattle Academy of Opera's Accademia d'Amore, the American Bach Soloists Academy, and the Oberlin Conservatory's Baroque Performance Institute and has played in masterclasses with Kenneth Slowik, Tanya Tompkins and Richard Aaron, among others. He also devotes much of his time to performing with S'amusant, an early music ensemble he co-founded with Patrick Merrill, harpsichordist, in 2013 as well as engagements with the Folger Consort of the Folger Shakespeare Library and indie rock bands in Baltimore and New York. He is currently the Lead Cello Teacher for Baltimore Symphony's OrchKids program, working with young string players in the West Baltimore area.

Hold these Future Dates:

As many of you know, our little play-reading sub-group had planned to read a wonderful musical (almost Opera, really) called “The Cradle will Rock” by a wonderful composer of the 1930s named Mark Blitzstein. We decided to head in a different direction when we learned that a local theater company was considering a production this play.

Well, that company, Iron Crow Theater, has, indeed, decided to produce this wonderful opera! Opening night is 29 September 2017 at 8pm. That’s a Friday and, unfortunately, Yom Kippur, but a group of us are planning to attend that opening night. A separate invitation will be forthcoming on just this subject, but please put it on your calendar!

In the meantime, tickets can be obtained on the company’s web site here:
http://www.ironcrowtheatre.org/cradle/

(I might add that this is one of the most wonderful and innovative companies in Baltimore’s rapidly evolving theater scene; I highly recommend that you have a look at the rest of what promises to be a MOST fabulous season of theater!)

If you are not able to make it to join us on Friday the 29th of September, there are plenty of other performances available (including TWO on Sat the 30th of September).

Then, on 1 October 2017, at 5pm, we will gather for a particularly special Evening of Dinner and Music (more info to come about that soon!). But, after the performance and our dinner, some of us hope to continue our evening by gathering around my little piano to sing some of the songs from “The Cradle will Rock,” and discuss (AKA “Dish”) the production.

If you are interested, because we were planning to “read” this musical at my house, I have a limited number of copies. If you would like me to send you a copy, please just let me know and I will send it right away

I do hope that you can join us on all three of these dates!

Paul Cassedy

What's the music?

Wade Davis Baroque Cello

Attendees

Elias M.