A kick-off to our expanded music program, a May 1, 2021 - recital by S.R. Todd at the Steinway Gallery of Little Rock.
Music brings us into the immediacy and intimacy of God. - S.R. Todd
Music is an essential element of our worship services, and we are expanding our music programs to nurture and grow our sense of connection and community. As we return to in-person services on May 23, 2021, we will also be adding solo and chamber music concerts to contribute to a larger sense of community within our area, as masks and safety protocols make it possible for us to meet face to face. In addition, all of our staff and most congregants are vaccinated.
During the past year, music in worship by our Music Director and Pianist/Organist, Sally Renee Todd, and soloists and vocal duos drawn from our choir. We plan to continue with this format, perhaps with slightly larger chamber choral and instrumental groupings, as we determine the safest ways to revive our choir.
If you would be interested in joining in our music program as a vocalist and/or instrumentalist, please contact us by phone or email to connect with our Music Director - we will be happy to welcome you!
Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee, by Ludwig von Beethoven, arr. by Naureen Sauls. Musical Moments with the Music Director, Pulaski Heights Presbyterian Church, Little Rock. Performance by S.R. Todd, Music Director and Pianist/Organist, video by David Harper.
Transformation & Transcendence - Kick-off to in-person services and music making, SRT Recital, May 1, 2021, Steinway Gallery of Little Rock, video by David Harper.
Transformation & Transcendence - Sally Renée Todd, pianist
Recital Program:
Note Patterns Shifting Across Time (Beats/Meter and Centuries)
Changes Alexina Louie
Fantasia in G Major, FVB No. 261, excerpt, edited by SR Todd William Byrd
Interweaving of Song and Hymn, Pianistic Transformation
Liebeslied (Widmung) R. Schumann, transc. by F. Liszt
The Angels Changed My Name Op. 59, No.9 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
African American Spiritual, now also known as “There is No East or West”
Counterpoint That Transcends the Page to Become a Spatial Experience
Prelude and Fugue in F-Sharp Major, BWV 858 J.S. Bach
für alina Arvo Pärt
Homages to Treasured Forms and Traditions, Through a Pianistic Lens
from Preludes, Book I (1909-1910) and Book II (1912-13) Claude Debussy
La fille avec le cheveux de lin (The girl with the flaxen hair)
Général Lavine — eccentric: in the style of a Cakewalk
La puerta del Vino (Wine Gate) in the rhythm of a Habanera
Transcendental Pianism and Ostinatos (Note Patterns Continually Repeated in the Bass)
Etude Tableau in A Minor, Op. 39, No. 2 Sergei Rachmaninoff
Berceuse, Op. 59 Fryderyk Chopin
A Tune as Musical Joke, Transformed into Operatic and Concerto-like Figures
Twelve Variations on “Ah vous dirais-je, Maman” K. 265 W.A. Mozart
Blooper Reel, Take 1 of Musical Moments with the Music Director, Pulaski Heights Presbyterian Church, Little Rock. Performance by S.R. Todd, Music Director and Pianist/Organist, video by David Harper.
Musical Moment with Music Director - Sancta Dorothea, S. 187, by Franz Liszt