O Boundless, Boundless Evening

A song for Summer Solstice

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1TKpBTuXr8

The 2013 Pan Mass Challenge

There's a Lot Riding on This

Dear friends,

I am committed to raising $5,000 for cancer research by riding in the 2013 Pan-Mass Challenge (PMC). I am training now to ride the first weekend in August when I will join 5,500 cyclists in the 34th PMC, an annual bike-a-thon that raises money for research and care at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) in Boston.

I hope I can count on your support

The PMC raises more money for charity than any other single event in the country, $375 million since 1980 and $37 million last year alone! This success is the result of a lot of people riding for, and caring about, a cure. And because every penny matters, 100 percent of your donation goes to DFCI.

I've made a personal commitment to ride and raise $5,000. So I hope you can help me achieve this significant goal.

Please donate to my PMC ride at one of the following links:

Click here to make $25 donation

Click here to make a $50 donation

Click here to make a $100 donation

Click here to make a $250 donation

Click here to make a $500 donation

Click here to make a $1,000 donation

Click here to make a donation of any other amount

The PMC supports DAF Direct to designate PMC riders for a charitable gift

Click here to support me with a gift from your Fidelity Donor Advised Fund

Every donation brings us closer by the mile.

Thank you,
Andrew Garland

Your donation is tax deductible and 100% will go to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. If you prefer to write a check, please make it out to the PMC, The Jimmy Fund or Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and mail it to me directly at:

Andrew Garland
24 Clifton Drive
Kingston, MA 02364
US

If your employer has a matching gift program, ask your Human Resources department for a form, and follow the process for matches.

To learn more about the Pan-Mass Challenge, please visit www.pmc.org.

Spring 2013 Newsletter

Spring 2013 Calendar

CALENDAR

Massachusetts

     Boston Lyric Opera: The Magic Flute (Papageno) October 4,6,9,11,13

     Boston: Coro Allegro: Schubert Mass in G, world premiere by Greg Bullen, June 2

     Kingston: Andrew Garland and Friends charity benefit May 19, First Parish Church

     Newton: Boston Saengerfest Men's Chorus  June 1

     Plymouth: Pilgrim Festival Chorus: Carmina Burana May 3, 4 Church of the Pligrimage

New York

     Avery Fisher Hall:  Distinguished Concerts International New York Orchestra: Duruflé Requiem, Mark Hayes Requiem, world premiere  May 27

Ohio
     Cincinnati Opera: Galileo Galilei - Philip Glass July 11, 14, 17, 19, 21, 2013

     Dayton Opera: Le Nozze di Figaro - April 5,7, 2013

Tennessee
     Knoxville Opera: La Cenerentola (Cinerella) April 26, 28

Coming this Fall and beyond...

   Tuesday Music Club San Antonio, TX, November 12, 2013  Recital with Donna Loewy, piano

    Boston Baroque: New Year's Eve and First Day Concerts: December 31 (2013), January 1 (2014) Sanders Theater

    Boston Baroque: A Valentine's Weekend of French Baroque: February 14, 16, 2014

   Hawaii Opera Theater: Carmina Burana and I Pagliacci: March 28,30, April 1, 2014

   Recital with Warren Jones at the Cleveland Art Song Festival May 22, 2014

La Bohème - Speight's Corner

WOMEN

I hope you all had a safe and happy Thanksgiving.

I could write about how excited I am about the latest NYFOS concert, how relevant the material is in this music and why it will be a wonderful experience for you to go, but who could say it better than Steven Blier himself.  Follow this link for ticket information and read the press release including the maestro's compelling story of how this new program: "Women" came to be.

December 4, 8PM Merkin Hall

See you there!
http://www.nyfos.org/women.html

Pre-order my new CD American Portraits

The audience at Saturday's Carnegie Neighborhood Concert was offered a special invitation to pre-order my new CD: American Portraits.

It is the culmination of eight years of recitals and explorations of some of America's greatest classical songwriters.

Just go to www.gprrecords.com and scroll down until you see my picture.

Fall 2012 Newsletter

Highlights:

- THIS WEEKEND Handel's Partenope with Boston Baroque
- Recitals with Warren Jones
- Return to NYFOS
- lots close to home
- More great Handel
- Teasers for upcoming season...

Dear Friends,

Fall means something special and important to a lot of us.  Back to school, back to work, back to some of the best seasonal beers of the year...  For me it means a suddenly busy season of working while managing to stay mostly at home.

*This weekend please come and see Boston Baroque's production of Partenope one of Handel's few
comic operas.  This is a semi-staged production at Jordan Hall with a beautiful cast of Handel singers...and me.

Last month I began rehearsing a new recital program with a new and terrific collaborator, Warren Jones.  This program, created with my friend Barbara Hocher is entitled The Quest - Don Quixote and Other Wanderers.  It includes the Vaughan Williams Songs of Travel, a group of Schubert songs about wandering (from which there are many to choose) Ravel's mini-masterpiece for baritone Don Quichotte à Dulcinée,  selections from Songs of Cifar and the Sweet Sea, a Nicaraguan Odyssey by Peruvian-Chinese-Jewish-American sensation Gabriela Lena Frank., the American Folk Set you may remember from Steven Mark Kohn and of course "The Impossible Dream."  We will perform this program at Brown University, Philips Exeter Academy and then in New York City as part of the Carnegie Neighborhood Concert Series.  Later we will bring a portion of the program to the Olmos Ensemble chamber music series in San Antonio, TX.

I am blessed to work with such great artists again with the New York Festival of Song.  Along with the incomparable genius Steven Blier, this program stars Corinne Winters and Sasha Cook.  It is simply called Women and "explores the lives of women, narrated in their own words and also observed through the eyes of men. It features world premieres by four of today’s most interesting song composers: Mark Adamo, Harold Meltzer, Carla Kihlstedt, and Mohammed Fairouz.  Rounding out the musical program are songs by Thea Musgrave, John Musto, and others."

Right from there it's back home to rehearse for Boston Baroque's Messiah.  Last year I had such a great time singing with this orchestra and was so amazed by their playing that I had to blog about it.  This year there is another great line up of soloists and I have had the privilege of singing with them before.

Conductor Steven Karidoyanes is bringing together the Plymouth Philharmonic and the Masterworks Chorale for a program called: Transcendent Masterworks.  Five Mystical Songs of Vaughan Williams and the Brahms Requiem.  Come to a performance near you at the Performing Arts Center in Duxbury or Sanders Theater in Cambridge.

This year the Colorado Bach Ensemble started their inaugural season and this December performs their first Messiah.  I have a feeling this will be to Denver what the Oregon Bach Festival is to Portland.

2013 brings a lot of exciting things: Seattle, good friends in Dayton (singing Le Nozze di Figaro) Knoxville (Cenerentola with James Marvel), Bach's St. Matthew Passion, NYFOS' 25 Birthday Bash, Cincinnati Opera, a big recital in Texas and more surprises.

All of this information is available on my calendar.  If you happen to be in the area for any of these performances I would love to see you there.

Thank you!

Colorado
     Denver Colorado Bach Ensemble Handel's Messiah
Saturday, December 22, 7:30 PM
Trinity United Methodist Church

     Fort Collins Colorado Bach Ensemble Handel's Messiah
Friday, December 21, 7:30 PM
First United Methodist Church

Massachusetts
     Boston          Boston Baroque Handel's Partenope 
October 19 and 20, 7:30 PM
Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory

    Boston            Boston Baroque Handel's Messiah
Friday, December 7 &
Saturday, December 8  7:30 PM
Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory

     Cambridge     Plymouth Philharmonic and Masterworks Chorale: Vaughan Williams Five Mystical Songs and Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem  
November 9, 8PM
Sanders Theater

     Duxbury      Plymouth Philharmonic and Masterworks Chorale: Vaughan Williams Five Mystical Songs and Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem
Saturday,October 27, 8PM
Duxbury Performing Arts Center

     Hingham     Conservatory Concert Series  Pilgrim's Progress to Pop Paragon: Music of the New World
Sunday, October 21, 4PM
South Shore Conservatory, Hingham Campus

     New Bedford   New Bedford Symphony Handel's Messiah (Christmas portion) and Schubert's Magnificat in C

New Hampshire
     Exeter     Gilbert Concert Series at Philips Exeter Academy  Carnegie Neighborhood Concerts: The Quest - Don Quixote and Other Wanderers, a recital with Andrew Garland, baritone and Warren Jones, piano
Tuesday, October 30, 7PM


New York
     New York City   Carnegie Neighborhood Concerts  The Quest - Don Quixote and Other Wanderers, a recital with Andrew Garland, baritone and Warren Jones, piano
Saturday, November 3, 4PM
Advent Lutheran Church (West 93rd St and Broadway)

   New York City     New York Festival of Song: Women a new NYFOS program starring Corinne Winters, Soprano, Sasha Cook, mezzo-soprano and Steven Blier, piano
Tuesday, December 4, 8PM
Merkin Hall

Rhode Island
     Providence   Brown University  The Quest - Don Quixote and Other Wanderers, a recital with Andrew Garland, baritone and Warren Jones, piano
Sunday, October 28, 8PM
Grant Recital Hall

Texas
     San Antonio  Olmos Ensemble "Warren's Back, with Baritone Andrew Garland!"
Monday, November 9, 7:30 PM
First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Antonio