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At the 10:30 am service
Enjoy the unique music of bassoonist Claudia Risebig and oboeist Meribeth Risebig at our 10:30 am service tomorrow, July 9.
Claudia graduated from Washburn University with a Bachelor of Music degree. She is a member of the Suzuki Piano Associations for the Americas and Heart of America Suzuki Association, and is sanctioned to teach through Volume 4 Suzuki piano. Besides playing bassoon, Claudia sings with the Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral choir. She also holds a bachelor's degree in Health Information Management from Wichita State University and has worked at Shawnee Mission Medical Center as a Quality Improvement Coordinator since 1992. Claudia enjoys gardening, swimming, and cooking in her spare time,
Meribeth received her Bachelor of Music degree from Washburn University and also has a public teaching certificate from Wichita State University. She is currently Principal Oboist for the Northland Symphony and the St. Joseph Symphony, and plays regularly in the Starlight Theater Orchestra. Ms. Risebig recently retired as parish administrator of an Episcopal church in Overland Park. In her spare time she makes lots of oboe reeds and sings in the choir at St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Kansas City. Other favorite pastimes include gardening, cooking and wine tasting.
About the music for this coming Sunday July 9, 2023
Joseph-Francois Garnier (1755-1825)
Born in the city of Lauris, France, to a family of modest means Garnier at a young age was taken by his uncle, who was a bassoonist, brought him to Paris to learn the oboe. In 1769 Garnier joined the orchestra of the Royal Academy of Music which later became the National Opera of Paris after the French Revolution. Over the course of his long career, Garnier earned a grand reputation as solo oboist. He was a virtuoso on his instrument and composed extensively for the oboe and other wind instruments like the flute. He was a noted teacher and many of his works were published. During the service this Sunday, Claudia and Maribeth will play one of Garnier’s compositions titled “Allegro Moderato” Opus 4, which is taken from a larger work by the composer.
Sergi Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
A Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor, Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianist of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in the Russian classical music. Early influences were form Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, and other Russian composers that gave was to its song-like melodicism, expressiveness, rich colors found in his compositions. In 1885, he entered the Moscow Conservatory were he began writing his first compositions. Later in his life he left Russia and immigrated to the United States and continued as a concert pianist. One of the many compositions that Rachmaninoff wrote that will be heard this Sunday is titled “Vocalise”. This piece is very popular and has been arranged for orchestra and various instruments. The arrangement that will be played in our service is an arrangement for oboe and organ.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Born in Salzburg, Germany, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition resulted in more than 800 works of virtually every genre of his time. Many of these compositions are acknowledged as pinnacles of the symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic and choral repertoire. Mozart is widely regarded as among the greatest composers in the history of Western music, with his music admired for its melodic beauty, its formal elegance and richness of harmony. This Sunday you will hear Claudia and Maribeth perform the Andante movement from Mozart’s “Sonatine Amabile”.
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