The OSFL will re-open in full compliance with all COVID safety measures to ensure your well-being while you enjoy the music. Each venue has a different set of requirements, and policies are subject to change. Thank you for your full cooperation!
As we transition back to the stage,
LET THE MUSIC RESOUND!
A Tribute Concert
Saturday, October 9, 2021
7:30 PM
Park Church, Elmira, NY
Beethoven Symphony No. 4
George Walker Lyric for Strings
Giovanni Bottesini Elegy No. 1
Patrick Dugan, double bass
Tomaso Albinoni Adagio for Organ and Strings
Charles Gounod Little Symphony for Winds
Saturday, October 9, 2021
7:30 PM
Park Church, Elmira, NY
Beethoven Symphony No. 4
George Walker Lyric for Strings
Giovanni Bottesini Elegy No. 1
Patrick Dugan, double bass
Tomaso Albinoni Adagio for Organ and Strings
Charles Gounod Little Symphony for Winds
Past Performances for the Archives
September 4, 2021 at 2 PM
Nasser Civic Center
Corning, NY
Members of the OSFL will perform a program of classical and film music, as a feature performance at Imagine! Public Art in the Plaza, hosted by The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes. Bring a blanket or chair and share a picnic with friends and family while enjoying this event and performances!
Program
Fanfare from Symphonies - Jean-Joseph Mouret
You Raise Me Up - Rolf Løvland & Brendan Graham
Orchestral Suite No. 3 - Johann Sebastian Bach
Eine kleine Nachtmusik - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
La Califfa - Ennio Morricone
Cinema Paradiso - Morricone
Gabriel's Oboe - Morricone
Hoe Down from "Rodeo" - Aaron Copland
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Sponsored in part by Chemung Canal Trust Company, Empire Access, The Community Foundation of Elmira-Corning and the Finger Lakes, Inc., and Gary & Bonnie Chollet
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Rescheduled Concert
We have hit a milestone with this opportunity to reschedule the first concert that was cancelled over a year ago due to COVID-19, rescheduled from April 10, 2020. Rosanna Moore, harp sponsored in part by Denis Kingsley August 5, 2021 at 7:30 PM Rockwell Museum 111 Cedar St. in Corning Rhapsodie by Grandjany The Lark by Glinka Sonata in B Minor, K. 27 and Sonata in F Minor K. 466 by Scarlatti Keyboard Suite in D Minor by Handel Suite for Harp by Avner Dorman Time Spinner by Esther Swift Travel through time on a harp with music from 1700 through today. Principal harpist with the OSFL, Rosanna Moore presents this solo harp performance in preparation for the 21st Annual International Harp Competition in Israel. Biography |
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If you like what you hear at the concert and want more of this type of programming, please support the OSFL.
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Reopening Concert TRANSITION POINTS: INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC FOR TWO VOYCES sponsored in part by Dick and Judy Sphon The English-Tobin Duo Ashley English Tobin, baroque viola John Paul Tobin, baroque viola & baroque violin June 10, 2021 at 7:30 PM The Park Church Elmira, NY $30 adult, $10 child |
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Renaissance Ayres, Fantasias, Chansons, Ricercare, Motets, and Bicinia; Transitional Period and Late-Classical Music — The Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes presents the English-Tobin Duo on Historical Violins and Violas.
The theory that some of the most interesting art is produced during times of great transition is put to the test in this programme of music that straddles historical periods, genres, and musical styles. Secular mixes with sacred, and the lines between dance, vocal, and instrumental music are blurred with the shift from late-Renaissance to early-Baroque; The extreme compositional changes occurring during the Transitional Period (from Baroque to Classical) are exemplified in the work of a musician with a huge family legacy; and a late-Classical composer explores elements of Romanticism years before Beethoven and Schubert. Be transported as the Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes presents the English-Tobin Duo on historical violins and violas in the intimacy and fine acoustics of the Park Church.
The theory that some of the most interesting art is produced during times of great transition is put to the test in this programme of music that straddles historical periods, genres, and musical styles. Secular mixes with sacred, and the lines between dance, vocal, and instrumental music are blurred with the shift from late-Renaissance to early-Baroque; The extreme compositional changes occurring during the Transitional Period (from Baroque to Classical) are exemplified in the work of a musician with a huge family legacy; and a late-Classical composer explores elements of Romanticism years before Beethoven and Schubert. Be transported as the Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes presents the English-Tobin Duo on historical violins and violas in the intimacy and fine acoustics of the Park Church.
Ashley English Tobin and John Paul Tobin performing in the OSFL viola section
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The Park Church, Elmira NY
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Concert Repertoire
Middle/Late-Renaissance Ayres, Fantasias, Chansons, Ricercare, Motets, and Bicinia for 2 Instruments
Three Motets for two voices/instruments (performed without interruption)
ORLANDE DE LASSUS (ca.1530—1594)
I. “Beatus vir qui in sapientia morabitur”
II. “Beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam”
III. “Oculus non vidit”
Two Bicinia from “Il primo libro della musica a due voci”
I. Bicinium No. 34 GIOVANNI PAOLO CIMA (1570—1622)
II. Bicinium No. 21 ORAZIO VECCHI (1550—1605)
Chanson: “Contentez vous”
PIERRE CERTON (ca.1510—1572)
Ricercar I from “Ricercate a due voci”
ANNIBALE ZUCCARO (flor. 1603—1609)
Transitional Period and Late-Classical Music for 2 Instruments
Duetto for Two Violas in G Major, F. 61
WILHELM FRIEDEMANN BACH (1710—1784)
I. Allegro
II. Lamento
III. Presto
Duo for Violin and Viola in D major, StWV 203, No. 1
JOHANN FRANZ XAVER STERKEL (1750—1817)
I. Andante
II. [without indication]
Middle/Late-Renaissance Ayres, Fantasias, Chansons, Ricercare, Motets, and Bicinia for 2 Instruments
Three Motets for two voices/instruments (performed without interruption)
ORLANDE DE LASSUS (ca.1530—1594)
I. “Beatus vir qui in sapientia morabitur”
II. “Beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam”
III. “Oculus non vidit”
Two Bicinia from “Il primo libro della musica a due voci”
I. Bicinium No. 34 GIOVANNI PAOLO CIMA (1570—1622)
II. Bicinium No. 21 ORAZIO VECCHI (1550—1605)
Chanson: “Contentez vous”
PIERRE CERTON (ca.1510—1572)
Ricercar I from “Ricercate a due voci”
ANNIBALE ZUCCARO (flor. 1603—1609)
Transitional Period and Late-Classical Music for 2 Instruments
Duetto for Two Violas in G Major, F. 61
WILHELM FRIEDEMANN BACH (1710—1784)
I. Allegro
II. Lamento
III. Presto
Duo for Violin and Viola in D major, StWV 203, No. 1
JOHANN FRANZ XAVER STERKEL (1750—1817)
I. Andante
II. [without indication]
Biographies The English-Tobin Duo - Historical Violins and Violas
Now based in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes violist Ashley English and violist/baroque violinist John Paul Tobin met in 2013 while working together as studio, touring, and television broadcast musicians in Los Angeles, California. As the English-Tobin Duo, they have performed Historically-Informed interpretations of music for violas and violins since 2015. A shared love of the inherent expressive intensity of Early Music, coupled with the ability to exploit the full range of tonal colors made available by the use of carefully-curated authentic instruments — violas and violins which are, at the same time, tonally different, yet complementary — allow the English-Tobin Duo to present programming designed to transport the listener back to a time when musical tastes and affectations were novel and refined, meaningful and transcendent.
In addition to the Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes, Ashley English and John Paul Tobin serve in leadership roles as Concertmaster, Principal Violist, Assistant Principal Viola and Soloists in the region’s finest ensembles, such as the Williamsport Chamber Players, Pennsylvania Chamber Orchestra, Mansfield Opera Theatre, Susquehanna Valley Chorale, Cantata Singers, and the daKah Hip Hop Orchestra in Los Angeles. John Paul Tobin teaches Viola, Baroque Violin & Baroque Viola at Lycoming College in Williamsport, Pennsylvania where he also serves as the Conductor of the Lycoming College String Ensemble, Music Director of the Young Artist Baroque Orchestra at Lycoming College, and Assistant Conductor of the Lycoming College Community Orchestra. Ashley English maintains a robust studio of Traditional and Kaleidoscope violin and viola students at St. John’s School of the Arts in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and privately, around the region.
Now based in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes violist Ashley English and violist/baroque violinist John Paul Tobin met in 2013 while working together as studio, touring, and television broadcast musicians in Los Angeles, California. As the English-Tobin Duo, they have performed Historically-Informed interpretations of music for violas and violins since 2015. A shared love of the inherent expressive intensity of Early Music, coupled with the ability to exploit the full range of tonal colors made available by the use of carefully-curated authentic instruments — violas and violins which are, at the same time, tonally different, yet complementary — allow the English-Tobin Duo to present programming designed to transport the listener back to a time when musical tastes and affectations were novel and refined, meaningful and transcendent.
In addition to the Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes, Ashley English and John Paul Tobin serve in leadership roles as Concertmaster, Principal Violist, Assistant Principal Viola and Soloists in the region’s finest ensembles, such as the Williamsport Chamber Players, Pennsylvania Chamber Orchestra, Mansfield Opera Theatre, Susquehanna Valley Chorale, Cantata Singers, and the daKah Hip Hop Orchestra in Los Angeles. John Paul Tobin teaches Viola, Baroque Violin & Baroque Viola at Lycoming College in Williamsport, Pennsylvania where he also serves as the Conductor of the Lycoming College String Ensemble, Music Director of the Young Artist Baroque Orchestra at Lycoming College, and Assistant Conductor of the Lycoming College Community Orchestra. Ashley English maintains a robust studio of Traditional and Kaleidoscope violin and viola students at St. John’s School of the Arts in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and privately, around the region.
