Rogue Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (RVUUF) Ashland, OR

Sun, Jan 29, 3pm. From the Stone Age to Shakespeare: A One-of-a-Kind Musical Encounter ~ for All Ages!

Ever heard a krummhorn, gittern, or pipe and tabor? Enjoy a blast from the past, as master musician Sue Carney plays an assortment of seldom-heard historic instruments, and answers your questions about music through the ages. Best known for her work as a composer, producer, and performer at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, where she has been regularly commissioned to create music for theater, dance and video productions for over 25 years. She is also a director and founding member of the Terra Nova Consort, an early music ensemble dedicated to exploring the roots of today's world music.

Admission: $15 Adults, free for children under 12. Tickets at the door.
This concert is a benefit for RVUUF.

Sun, Dec 18, 3pm. At the Havurah, 185 N. Mountain Avenue. Doors open at 2:30 pm

For questions call: 541-488-7716
RVUUF’s Choir will be participating! Come to support them and hear some beautiful singing!

Sun, Jan 16, 3pm. Acclaimed guitarist, James Edwards, joins award-winning flutist, Jacqueline Rosen, performing music from Brazil, Spain, and France. Both classically trained, these concert partners were brought together by their technical flair, exciting performance style, and wide ranging repertoire.

Ms. Rosen has performed with San Francisco Opera, Cabrillo, Carmel and Tanglewood Music Festivals, and has worked with Seiji Ozawa, Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Henry Mancini, and other notable conductors. Her playing has been described as “fiery...yet refined” (Carmel Pine Cone) and “soulful” (Monterey Herald). J-P Rampal wrote that Ms. Rosen has "a warm tone, good technique, and fine musicality."

Mr. Edwards is noted for performances that evoke “...all the clarity and feeling of Segovia” (Alain Waits, Lompoc Record). He performs on the Classical guitar as well the Baroque guitar and Renaissance lute, and currently teaches guitar at SOU.

Benefit for the RVUUF Music Program. Admission: $15; children under 12: free. Program Flyer

Sun, Dec 19, 3pm. Celebrate the season with the blended voices of the Methodist Choir, the Havurah Shir Hadash Singers, and your own RVUUF Choir. For several years these groups have come together in the spirit of interfaith celebration and the blending of voices. This year we’re hosting the event here, and we hope to see it as filled to the roof beams as it was last time! Each group will present a short program, and the evening will end with a gorgeous combined group choral piece followed by a rousing, joyous sing-a-long. And, of course, tables full o’goodies in the back!

Come revel in the music of the season and support our valley’s religious diversity.

Sun, Apr 10, 3pm. Kristina Foltz, faculty member at SOU, has studied piano since she was five. She did post-graduate work at the Conservatorio del Liceou in Barcelona, Spain and received a Master Degree in piano performance from the University of Texas. Her career has taken her to many concert halls in the United States, as well as Mexico and Europe. She has performed locally with the Britt Festival and in a number of solo concerts. After presenting an exciting concert last year here at RVUUF, she returns this year to present works by Bach, Mozart, Chopin, Gershwin, Liszt and Prokofiev. Don’t miss it!

This concert benefits the RVUUF Music Program. Suggested donation: $15 adults; $5 students

Fri, Oct 29, 7:30pm. Chas Bernard will be performing a benefit cello concert for the Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation. Admission is free, but donations to the Foundation will be gratefully accepted. All donations will go to help support efforts to give young people the opportunity to experience the benefits inherent in learning to play music.

If you attended church on Sept 19th, you enjoyed the wonderful musical offerings of Chas Barnard, cellist. Now sixteen years of age, he has been a member of the cello section in the Rogue Valley Symphony since the 2008-2009 season. He served as the principal cellist at the 2010 Symphony Orchestra Academy of the Pacific in British Columbia, a member of the 2010 Oregon All-State Orchestra, 2009 Interlochen Philharmonic, and the 2009 World Youth Symphony. His performance of the Shostakovich Concerto No. 1 at the 2010 Oregon Solo Music Competition won first place, the gold medal, and earned rave reviews from the judges.

Chas is a Junior at Ashland High School where he plays in the school and youth orchestras, and is also an early admittance student at Southern Oregon University. He is a passionate advocate for the Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation, an organization that donates both new and refurbished instruments to school and after-school music programs that lack the resources to maintain existing instruments, and to provide instruments for students on waiting lists because instruments are unavailable.

Treat yourself to an evening of exquisite cello music performed by this extraordinary young man. The concert is being sponsored by the Music Committee. A reception will follow the concert so that you may have an opportunity to talk with Chas about his budding musical career, and his commitment to this very worthy cause.

Sun, Mar 6, 3pm. We welcome the musical ensemble, Piano Voce to RVUUF to present their annual concert. As fellow UUs they look forward to performing in our beautiful Great Hall each year. In this concert they present piano duets, songs and oboe music by Bach, Saint-Saens, Brahms, Poulenc, Strauss, Menotti, Copland, and others. These are composers and poets of our culture who have struggled with the experience of death, the most universal human experience, and who have reflected that experience in their work. Pianists are Annette Gurnée Hull, Nancy Correll, singers Karnala Stroup Calderoni and Kevin Sharkey, and oboist, Virginia Ryder, with Richard Duning, narrator. Come and enjoy an afternoon of uplifting performance by this very talented group.

Singers with sight-reading skills are welcome to join us.

With the Holidays approaching, Susan Meek agreed to do a cooking demonstration and prepare a "Buche de Noel" or Yule Log. It is a fancy Christmas dessert, easy to prepare, delicious and impressive. She says, "I try to find the best way to do any cooking I take on. By the 'best' I mean ease of preparation, not cost-prohibitive, and nutritious, but not to the point of undermining the authenticity of what I am cooking. Some recipes are complicated and demand time and effort. This recipe is an easier one that tastes great and looks good at the same time."

There is room in the kitchen for six observers. There will be a sign up sheet on the back table in the sanctuary. As the Buche de Noel is baking, the group will share favorite recipes, so if you are one of the lucky six, be sure to bring some of your favorite holiday recipes with you. And, of course, when the baking is done, the group will enjoy eating Susan's wonderful dessert. If there is enough interest, Susan is willing to do a second session. Donations will be collected to defray the cost of ingredients.

The Meadowlarks, a choral group from the Mt. Meadows Retirement Community, will perform in the Great Hall. The group has been singing together for four years. It was founded by Sharon Lindsey, a former member of RVUUF. When it became necessary for Sharon to move to the San Francisco Bay Area, Harriet Berman became their director. The accompanist is June Holmes. The group performs twice a year, once during the Holiday season, and again in the spring. This is their first performance outside of Mt. Meadows. Please come and enjoy music of the season sung by Ashland's own "Young at Heart." There will be caroling! Suggested donation: $10.