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Let us us take you for a stroll down old-world Buenos Aires boulevards as classical Argentinian tango is played on Mount Royal Academy’s new Yamaha GB1 grand piano. A dessert reception will close the evening. Generous benefactors have assured free admission to all and no tickets are required.   Saturday, March 19, 2016 at 7,30pmContinue reading “Fifth Concert Spirituel on Saturday, March 19 at 7:30pm in the Saint Joseph Center”

  An unprecedented development in the music course offerings at Mount Royal Academy will begin this week.  After eighth months of Simeon Morrow’s Music Directorship, a violin course with over thirty enrolled students will begin on Thursday.  The violin students will perform a concert at the end of the school year.”

One of America’s most promising young artists will present Sunapee with classic piano repertoire from the advent of the modern piano up to today’s composer/pianists. Piano music staples, composed specifically on and for that instrument, will comprise the program’s first half.  A dessert reception will be served at intermission.  The second half of the eveningContinue reading “Fourth Concert Spirituel at Mount Royal Academy”

Prior to Wagner’s (and, later, Strauss’) grand opera successes, the German Romantic Lied or song (as translated in English), was the principal means by which early 19th-Century Teutonic composers reconciled prose and musical rhetoric to make a quaint and “chamber” form of dramatic story telling.   Schubert and Schumann remain the peerless masters of thisContinue reading “Third Concert Spirituel at Mount Royal Academy”

All are invited to a service of Lessons and Carols performed by the students of Mount Royal Academy.  This meditative performance tells the story of Redemption through brief scripture readings, carols and silent tableaux.  The service is free and followed by hot chocolate, Holy Mass, and the Shrine’s beloved Christmas Lights.   Saturday, December 19,Continue reading “Christmas Lessons and Carols at Mount Royal Academy, produced by Simeon Morrow”