Season XIX Concert 3
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Yuletide Baroque
Sunday
December 21, 7 pm
Good Shepherd CENTER
543 Main St.
​​​Yuletide Baroque brings to life the rich and diverse Christmas music traditions of 17th/18th-century Europe. From sparkling Italian concerti to sacred German chorales, courtly French Noëls, and spirited English carols, this program celebrates the sounds that lit up the holiday season centuries ago.
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Led by Carmen Johnson-Pájaro, baroque violin
With Jimmy Drancsak, baroque violin
Ben Katz, harpsichord
Sarah Ghandour, cello
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Season XIX Concert 4
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LOS HERMANOS
THE BROTHERS
A Musical Celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Monday January 19, 2026
at 4 pm
Good Shepherd Center
Aldo Gavilan, composer and pianist “simply a genius, a star,” Chucho Valdés aldomusica.com
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Ilmar Gavilan, violin (Grammy-award winning violinist, Harlem String Quartet) ilmargavilan.com
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Max Zeugner, double bass, associate principal, The New York Philharmonic
Original Compositions by Aldo Gavilan, with Jazz and Afro-Cuban Standards
Music will be interspersed with excerpts for the award-winning PBS documentary Los Hermanos, which tells the story of the Gavilan Brothers journey from Cuba to the USA.
https://www.hermanosbrothersfilm.info/trailer
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