It’s A Grand Night for Singing at Jarvis

Jarvis Conservatory presents an (almost) All-American Concert for It’s a Grand Night for Singing on Saturday, Sept. 7 at 7 p.m. Tenor Erich Buchholz will offer a rumination by John Reed on the trials of the American Native composed by early 20th century female composer Marion Bauer; quiet love songs by art song composer Richard Hundley to a poem of James Purdy; and by Ellen Mandel, a New York composer of songs and for the theater, setting a poem of W.B. Yeats.  The only selection not composed by an American has an American setting, the 1954 operetta, Arizona Lady by Hungarian-German composer Emmerich Kálmán’s.  Buchholz will perform a Samuel Barber song cycle, Mélodies passagères, settings of poems in French by Austrian poet and novelist Rainer Maria Rilke. Soprano Amy Foote will perform Jake Heggie’s “Songs to the Moon” setting poems of one of America’s revolutionary poets, Vachel Lindsay, and Henry Cowell’s “Vocalise” for voice, flute and “damped” piano. Foote will also perform a duet with Buchholz, from Leonard Bernstein’s Candide and songs from Tin Pan Alley and old Broadway. Flautist Diane Grubbe will also perform “A Suite for Flute,” by Meredith Willson, a flute and piccolo virtuoso.  Sheri Mignano Crawford will play accordion to greet the audience and at intermission, when complimentary snacks and wine will be served.  Tickets are $20 online or at the box office beginning at 6 p.m.

Jarvis Conservatory, 1711 Main St., Napa, www.jarvisconservatory.com, 707- 255-5445