Flute recital at Trinity Episcopal Church in Concord, May 5

Trinity Episcopal Church in Concord invites you to a prelude recital and the service of Choral Evensong on Sunday, May 5 at 5 pm. Ethel Farny, flute, will be joined by James Meadors, guitar, and Robert Barney, piano and organ, to perform a 30-minute program Quantz's Sonata in B-flat Major, Heinz Katochwil's Suite for Flute and Guitar, and A.F. Kropfreiter's Vier Stücke for Flute and Organ. Trinity Episcopal Church is located at 81 Elm Street in Concord.

Ms. Farny received a Masters of Music at the Yale School of Music and is Chair of the Wind Department at The Rivers School Conservatory in Weston. She has taught and played in the Boston area since 1966 and teaches privately in Lincoln as well as at Rivers. Farny has performed at Trinity Church for many years and enjoys collaborating with Robert Barney.

Guitarist James Meadors holds the PhD degree in musicology from Harvard University, where he wrote his dissertation on 16th-century Italian lute music. He plays both lute and guitar and has performed with numerous chamber groups and early music ensembles in the Boston area and elsewhere in New England.

Quantz's sonata was written for the musician emperor Frederick the Great. The lyrical and expressive slow movements of Kratochwil's Suite include elements from Renaissance and Medieval music; the fast movements show the influence of jazz. Kropfreiter, Austrian organist/choirmaster at the monastery of St. Florian, based two movements of his Vier Stücke on Gregorian chants, Victimae paschali laudes and Veni creator.

Following this recital, Trinity's Parish Choir will present Choral Evensong, the traditional liturgy of sung prayer known throughout the Anglican Communion. Under director Robert Barney, the choir will sing Preces and Responses by Gerre Hancock, psalm settings David Hurd and Herbert Howells and Charles Wood's Evening Service in E-flat and the motet Expectans expectavi. The event is open to all, whatever their faith tradition.

Trinity is fully handicap-accessible. For further information on this and other events at Trinity, please call the Parish Office, 978-369-3715.