Annual Holiday Party 2007
Bruce continues his Saturday Club meeting posts (with photos) with this description of our 2007 Annual Holiday Party:
The Sacramento Saturday Club's Annual Holiday Party was held at the historic and beautiful Witter Ranch, home to Ed and Eleanor Witter, on Sunday, 12/02/07, at 3:00 p.m.
Many thanks to the Witter family, for their hospitality, generosity, and festive decorations!
Thanks also, to Susan Lamb Cook, gifted 'cellist and 'cello instructor, and to her students. Susan's students, a trio from the SYS Chamber Music Workshop and a quartet comprised of undergraduate and graduate students from the UC Davis Department of Music and the CSUS Department of Music, performed during the "programmed" portion of the party.
The Trio Undici (eleven) gave a brilliant performance of Mikhail Glinka's Romance.
Susan's older students provided the audience with three evocative movements from Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 6, op.101. They followed up with beautiful arrangements of several popular Christmas carols.
We had about 45 SSC members and guests in attendance and about the same number of delicious desserts and beverages: wine, coffee, hot wassail, tortes, cakes, cookies, panatone, fudge, pfeffernussen, fruitcake...I could go on...
The Cozza-Fisher family, always in the holiday spirit, offered up some more Christmas carols and Robin brought the sacred into our midst by singing Ave Maria.
Hannes Busch, accompanied by John Cozza, gave excellent performances of several German carols.
If you missed the festivities, I hope you make it next year. Otherwise, see you at the January home concert.
- Bruce
Thanks one more time, Bruce, for blogging the last meeting of 2007. We invite all Sacramento Saturday Club members to submit their own impressions and reviews of each meeting.
The Sacramento Saturday Club's Annual Holiday Party was held at the historic and beautiful Witter Ranch, home to Ed and Eleanor Witter, on Sunday, 12/02/07, at 3:00 p.m.
Many thanks to the Witter family, for their hospitality, generosity, and festive decorations!
Thanks also, to Susan Lamb Cook, gifted 'cellist and 'cello instructor, and to her students. Susan's students, a trio from the SYS Chamber Music Workshop and a quartet comprised of undergraduate and graduate students from the UC Davis Department of Music and the CSUS Department of Music, performed during the "programmed" portion of the party.
The Trio Undici (eleven) gave a brilliant performance of Mikhail Glinka's Romance.
Susan's older students provided the audience with three evocative movements from Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 6, op.101. They followed up with beautiful arrangements of several popular Christmas carols.
We had about 45 SSC members and guests in attendance and about the same number of delicious desserts and beverages: wine, coffee, hot wassail, tortes, cakes, cookies, panatone, fudge, pfeffernussen, fruitcake...I could go on...
The Cozza-Fisher family, always in the holiday spirit, offered up some more Christmas carols and Robin brought the sacred into our midst by singing Ave Maria.
Hannes Busch, accompanied by John Cozza, gave excellent performances of several German carols.
If you missed the festivities, I hope you make it next year. Otherwise, see you at the January home concert.
- Bruce
Thanks one more time, Bruce, for blogging the last meeting of 2007. We invite all Sacramento Saturday Club members to submit their own impressions and reviews of each meeting.
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