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Ukiah Symphony presents "Spring Pops" a major fundraising concert featuring jazz and Broadway music
Spring Pops!
By Karen Rifkin
Spring Pops!, a major fundraiser for the Ukiah Symphony featuring jazz and Broadway tunes, is just around the corner at the First Presbyterian Church on April 24th. Audience members will have the opportunity to hear the George Husaruk Jazz Trio, San Francisco pianist Paul Schrage and bassist Tom Shader and singers Roseanne Wetzel and Pedro Rodelas.
Flautist Husaruk plays a variety of musical genres and has performed with such musicians as Cal Tjader, Barry Melton and Elena Casanova. He divides his time between teaching music and mathematics at Baechtel Grove Middle School in Willits and performing throughout northern California.
Guitarist Christian Foley-Beining, playing with Husaruk, performs jazz standards, Latin Jazz and original compositions with his own trio, the Christian Foley-Beining Trio, focusing on full arrangements of Pat Methenys complex and orchestrated music and his own jazzy interpretations of Beatles songs.
Upright bass player Tom Shader, the third member of the trio, has been playing professionally with numerous jazz groups in the San Francisco and North Bay for several decades and performs regularly at local jazz festivals in Sonoma and Mendocino County.
Their repertoire for the afternoon will include "Over the Rainbow" by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg, "Alice in Wonderland by Sammy Fain and Bob Hilliard, written for the 1951 Walt Disney animated film, and the groups arrangements of Beatles music.
Pianist Paul Schrage, music director of Symphonia Caritas in San Francisco, will begin the second half of the concert accompanied by Shader on upright bass. Schrage has previously played with the Ukiah Symphony and has performed in recital, with orchestras and in jazz settings, across the United States and in Europe, Brazil and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The duo will play Tonight Tonight by Smashing Pumpkins, Prelude in C Minor by Frederic Chopin, 'Til Kingdom Come by Coldplay and Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana.
Rounding out the show, the audience will welcome back singers Roseanne Wetzel and Pedro Rodelas who lit up the night two summers ago at Nelson Family Vineyards performing as Nellie Forbush and Emile de Becque in Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammersteins South Pacific.
Former Miss Mendocino, Wetzel has performed locally over the years in many lead roles of popular Broadway favorites at Ukiah Players Theater, Mendocino College and with the Ukiah Symphony. When not behind a desk at the library, she can be found on stage belting out the strains of funk from the 70s, 80s and 90s with the Funky Dozen band.
Wetzel will solo with So In Love by Cole Porter, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Otto Harbach and Jerome Kern and Someone to Watch Over Me by George Gershwin.
Operatic tenor Rodelas, a versatile performer who is equally at home on the musical theater stage, has performed principal roles and appeared as a featured soloist in the United States, Canada, Mexico and South America. He is a part-time member of the San Francisco Opera Chorus and performs regularly with the internationally acclaimed The Three Waiters.
He will solo singing The Impossible Dream from Man of La Mancha by Joe Darion and Mitch Leigh, and he and Wetzel will perform as a duet singing If I Loved You from Carousel by Rodgers and Hammerstein and Anything You Can Do, I Can do Better by Irving Berlin, warming up for their portrayals of Annie Oakley and Frank Butler in Annie Get Your Gun at the Nelson Family Vineyards on August 6th.
Spring Pops! will be presented at the First Presbyterian Church of Ukiah on the corner of Dora and Perkins on Sunday, April 24th at 2:00 p.m. Tickets are available at Mendocino Book Company, 102 S. School Street, Ukiah; at www.ukiahsymphony.org or at the door. Prices are $30 for adult and $5 for students with ASB cards and those under 18. Raffle prizes, silent auction and refreshments. For further information call 707 462-0236.
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LocationFirst Presbyterian Church, Ukiah, California (View)
Corner of Perkins and Dora Streets
Ukiah, CA 95482
United States
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