Summer Musicale – July 14th, 2 p.m.

At 2 PM on Sunday, July 14, in the sanctuary of All Saints Anglican Church,30 High Street, Huntsville, there will be a delightful Summer Musicale concert. The concert will feature musicians from the Huntsville area performing a wide-ranging variety of musical styles and musical settings of haiku and senryu poetry. The performers will include Louis Tusz, Merrill Perret,what I  and Ray Chantler, trumpets; Margot and Ron Jewell, viola and clarinet; Ruth Cassie, keyboard and vocals; Karen Richards, Patricia Morehead, and Philip Morehead, flutes, oboes, and bassoon/keyboard; with Ruth Cassie and Michele Collins, narrators. Entrance is by free-will donation and a reception with refreshments in the foyer of the church will follow the concert.

This talented assemblage will perform works by Gershwin, Debussy, Handel, Patricia Morehead, and others, and a Canadian premiere composition by Chicago African American composer Regina Harris Baiocchi.

Regina Harris Baiocchi writes notes and words to fill vessels called music, poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Her curiosity drives Regina to create art that is informed by research, speaks to diverse audiences, and moves people. The new work by Baiocchi is a setting of six haiku and senryu poems written by Baiocchi. Haiku (HI-KOO’) and senryū (SIN-RYE’-OO) are 3-line,

unrhymed poems of up to 17 syllables (5/7/5 form) with Japanese roots and global life. Often haiku are about nature, while senryū are about human nature. The settings are for solo oboe, solo oboe d’amore, and solo English horn, played by Patricia Morehead, who will perform the work later in July at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona.