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Thursday, February 9, 2012
Robin Aurelius
Age73 years old GenderMale OccupationRetired librarian. Retired Choir Director NeighborhoodEast Sacramento |
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About MeI have also been a folk musician, enjoying playing with other strummers. It goes back to camp in Maine where I was a Maine Guide. My father was an opera singer, and my grandmother couldn't carry a tune in a basket, but she tried. I learned to play the church organ at an early age, under my father's tutelage. He would hum the aria, and say, give me some accompaniment. He would change key signatures to suit his vocal range of the day. And so, I now play the accordion where it is relatively easy to change keys. I also play for a little group on Thursday mornings at the Clunie Clubhouse. Families with little children, some nannies and nonnies, and a lot of folks of all ages who just wander in from having visited the McKinley library. |
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Cabaret, a review of the musical, at Sutter Street Theater in Folsom
reviewed by Robin Aurelius This shoebox theater is truly impressive for mounting a show as large and boisterous as Cabaret. The results were way beyond my expectations. From where I sat in the third row I could hear every nuance of every conversation, all the whispering anecdotes, and asides, the “sotto voce” solos, and all the dancers' backsides. This is a long, long, show, and I was never bored. Cabaret is really beyond operetta. It is a mini opera, a sardonic satire, and parody of life at the Kit Kat. Every piece of it meshes (and grates) excitingly. Connie Mockenhaupt has put a lot of pizazz in where the show needs it. The set is colorful and provocative, and very efficient for th
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Camerata California to sing "Child's Christmas in Wales"
Child’s Christmas in Wales is a new work, at least on the West Coast. It was commissioned in 2003 for a mixed choir, soloists, and chamber symphony in New Jersey. Matthew Harris comes to us this Sunday with a composing track record as long as Santas beard, and with the kudos that come from doing much more with his choral scores than anyone ever expects. So I found out by Googling “Matthew Harris Composer”. I asked two of the Chanteuses, who are also in the Camerata, how they liked the work. They were excited, and now so am I. went to his website to check things out. He is quite modest about commissions for choral works. There are plenty of them, and serious choral directors say it
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McKinley Childrens' Song Circle begins its third year of fun and free family gatherings
Every Sunday this year the Shadechasers have been singing folk songs for the pleasure of their friends and neighbors in East Sacramento. We meet at the Clunie Clubhouse, next to the McKinley Library, in the auditorium. We will continue into the New Year. We had been meeting at 3 PM. But the new time is 4 PM to 5:30. All ages are welcome. We were initially funded by the First Five Commission of Sacramento for the first 12 months. We got a wonderful singing audience which just keeps coming. We have added children over the age of five. We have added folk and step dancing along with rhythm. Our songs tend to be from Pete Seeger, Malvina Reynolds, Woody Guthrie and other singers like Raffi.
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