For the opening concert of our 22nd season, the Arts at Coker is pleased to welcome the Alamo Chapter of the American Guild of Organists as co-presenters of "Organ Spectacular."  On this date, October 19, there will be over 250 organ concerts in the United States, Canada, Europe, China, Russia, Africa, and Australia as part of the celebration of "The International Year of the Organ."  Other Arts at Coker concerts in the 2008-2009 season will include a piano duet, guitar, choral concerts, orchestra concerts, and two pops concerts.  We do hope that  you will continue to join us as Coker United Methodist Church celebrates God's artistic gifts through the visual and performing arts. 

 

 

Elaine Ehlers Director of the Arts at Coker

 

 

   

 

 

Kasandra Keeling and Christine Debus will present a program of Romantic piano duet music with works by Brahms, Rachmaninoff and Schubert.

 

 

Dr. Keeling is currently the Coordinator of Keyboard studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where she teaches applied piano.  She has performed extensively in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and China.

 

 

French-born Christine Debus is currently staff accompanist at UTSA, where she teaches and coordinates accompanying and performs in both student and faculty recitals.  Arriving in the United States in 1986, she performed extensively in the Washington D.C. area before moving to San Antonio.  She has recently toured the southwest region of France as the pianist of the Hemisphere Quartet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We are pleased to have the San Antonio Choral Society as a part of the 2008-2009 "Arts at Coker" season.  This concert for the Choral Society will serve both as an end to their 44th season and a springboard for their 45th season celebration.  Following the concert at Coker, members of the ensemble will fly to New York City and perform in the historic Carnegie Hall.  Mozart's Vesperae Solennes De Confessore (K. 339) was selected as the piece to take to Carnegie.  This work is a standard in the choral repertoire and includes the ethereal soprano solo Laudate Dominum.  Other highlights of the concert will include Mozart's Ave Verum Corpus.  The concert will be accompanied by orchestra, and promises to be a wonderful afternoon of Mozart.  For ticket information, please visit www.sachoralsociety.org.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Dave Collett, Conductor; Duane Hoff, Conductor; The Coker Chancel Choir, Coker Orchestra, soloists and special guests