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Midday Music

Everyone is welcome to come share their love of music and reconnect with our community.

Dear Music Lovers,
This month's Music at Midday will still be held online, thus allowing us to hear some very interesting performances otherwise inaccessible live!
Join us here: https://bit.ly/ucmtlmusicmidday

We will be listening to:
1. The Ethics of Songs: Andrew Balfour, Canadian Indigenous composer and sixties Scoop child on "I Pity the Country" by Willie Dunn
Willie Dunn Indigenous artist and activist, penned dozens of tunes during his career and even though he worked with groups like the CBC and the National Film Board, was never able to achieve mainstream success.

2. Alisa Weilerstein, cellist and wife of the new MSO conductor, Raphael Payare, and Ion Barnatan, Israeli pianist play the scherzo from Rachmaninov's Sonata for Cello and Piano
https://youtu.be/Y4e89e_QhNs

3. Sujari Britt (8 year old cellist at the time) and Alisa Weilerstein, cellos
Boccherini Duet at the White House (during Obama's tenure)
https://youtu.be/uWGjUDhXvC4

4. Timpanogos High Choir Sings William Tell Overture
https://youtu.be/LlsP6zZgjT8