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rowing The Plains as a regional center for music and the arts, highlyregarded conductor Miriam Burns is bringing the new Paragon Philharmonia chamber orchestra to Grace Church.
The first concert, “A Joyous Beginning,” will be held Sunday, Oct. 17 at 5 p.m., with the Chamber Orchestra performing the Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 4, a Mendelssohn String Symphony and Mozart’s Symphony No. 29. Paragon Philharmonia joins the acclaimed two-decade-old Grace Church Concert Series, which starts its season on Sunday, Oct. 3 with “Music from the Heart: A Celebration of Connection in Aria and Song” with sopranos Camille Zamora and Monica Yunus and pianist Josephine Riggs.
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A resident of Manhattan, Burns is a visiting professor and Director of Orchestral Studies at Ohio State and is principal guest conductor of the Youngstown Symphony. Recent past music directorships include the former Tysons McLean Orchestra of Northern Virginia, the Tallahassee Symphony, Kenosha Symphony and Lawton Philharmonic. She’s also Photo by Leland Schwartz Grace Church Rector Weston Mathews and Lena guest conducted numerous orchestras in the U.S. and Scott Lundh abroad. Burns was on the New York Philharmonic staff as one of the cover conductors for eight years, serving under music directors Kurt Masur and Loren Maazel. Paragon comes to Grace through the efforts of Lena Scott Lundh, former chair of Washington Performing Arts, and Grace Church Rev. Weston Mathews. “No matter who you are or where you come from you are welcome to participate in everything Grace Church offers,” Rev. Mathews said, adding that, “music is one of the universal languages that helps knit us all together.”
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“I agree,” said Scott Lundh. “Music can be just entertaining, but also serious, helping in healing and uniting us in times of sorrow and divisiveness. Twenty years after 9/11, we remember how people in New York came together in the aftermath of the horrific tragedy, singing “We Shall Overcome” and “America the Beautiful” while orchestras around the world presented the requiems of Brahms and Mozart. “Music also has the ability to speak to us without words, expressing feelings and emotions, helping us understand life with our hearts rather than our minds.” Grace Church and Paragon Philharmonia will focus on three areas of collaboration: —Hosting a new series of accessible, high-quality concerts for the community that will complement the long-established Grace Concert Series.
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