Phyllis Schneider passed away. This is the full obituary where you can share condolences and memories. Published in the Mankato Free Press on 2024-04-09.
LASO Sponsors Free Concert Of Chamber Music
LASO News:
The Los Alamos Symphony Orchestra (LASO) presents a free “virtual” concert of chamber music available on its own YouTube channel right now!
The program opens with two movements from J.S. Bach’s Sonata in E minor for flute and basso continuo, featuring flautist Heidi Morning.
Next comes a little-known duo for viola and cello by Ludwig van Beethoven, which the composer himself titled “Duet with Two Eyeglasses Obbligato”, played by Nelly Case and James Knudson.
Lastly, Claire Detels plays a selection of 20th century American piano works including “Ellis Island”, a work by avant-garde minimalist composer and multi-media artist Meredith Monk, a Prelude (1933) and character piece, “Woven Silver”, by William Grant Still (long known as the “Dean” of African American composers), and the third movement of Charles Ives’s Concord Sonata, titled “The Alcotts”.