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Grand Canyon National Park. Photo by C.J. Crossland

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2012 Concert Dates & Locations: August 24, 25, 30, 31, and September 1, 7, & 8
Shrine of the Ages on the South Rim of Grand Canyon, 7:30 p.m.

Ticket Pricing
Ticket Prices: $15 for adults; $8 for children (no children under six, please)
Programs subject to change without notice.

Attend all 7 concerts for just $90 (adult ticket price). This package deal makes a great gift for you or your favorite music lover!

Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012
7:00 p.m.
ETHEL
at the Tempe History Museum

The Tempe Historical Society and The Grand Canyon Music Festival Welcome ETHEL in a benefit concert.

Tickets: $15.00

All proceeds benefit The Grand Canyon Music Festival and Tempe Historical Society.

Location: Tempe History Museum
809 East Southern - Rural and Southern

7:30 p.m.
ETHEL
“The Best of ETHEL”
Repertoire will be announced shortly.

“Extraordinarily skilled, passionate musicians”
— The New York Times

7:30 p.m.
ETHEL
Repertoire will be announced shortly.

“Extraordinarily skilled, passionate musicians”
— The New York Times

7:30 p.m.

Robert Bonfiglio, harmonica; Joe Deninzon, violin; Steve Benson, guitar
Three extraordinary virtuosi bring their unique talents to a refreshing and unpretentious bridge between jazz, classical, rock, and pop.

“If the violin has a future in Jazz and Rock, it is with Joe Deninzon"
— RELIX Magazine

7:30 p.m.

The Catalyst String Quartet
Repertoire will be announced shortly.

“Invariably energetic and finely burnished…The Catalyst Quartet played with an earthy vigor.”
— Allan Kozinn, The New York Times

7:30 p.m.

The Catalyst String Quartet
with ETHEL
“Invariably energetic and finely burnished…The Catalyst Quartet played with an earthy vigor.”
— Allan Kozinn, The New York Times

PROGRAM DETAILS:

Richard Einhorn
The Silence

Other repertoire will be announced shortly.

7:30 p.m.
"A Night at the Opera"
Cabiria Jacobsen, mezzo-soprano; Kirk Dougherty, tenor: Jon Klibonoff, piano: Clare Hoffman, flute

PROGRAM DETAILS:

George Frideric Handel
“Svegliatevi nel core” — Giulio Cesare

Giacomo Puccini
“Firenze è come un albero fiorito” — Gianni Schicchi

“O mio babbino caro” — Gianni Schicchi

Charles Gounod
“Ah leve-toi soleil” — Romeo et Juliette

Jacques Offenbach
Giulietta/Hoffmann duet — Les contes d'Hoffmann

Gaetano Donizetti
“Fra poco a me ricovero” — Lucia di Lammermoor

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“Non so piú cosa son” — Le nozze di Figaro

“Voi che sapete” — Le nozze di Figaro

Giacomo Puccini
“Che gelida manina” — La Bohème

Gioachino Rossini
“Non piú mesta” — La Cenerentola

“Un soave non so che” — La Cenerentola

7:30 p.m.
"The Art of Song"
Cabiria Jacobsen, mezzo-soprano, Kirk Dougherty, tenor, Jon Klibonoff, piano

Husband and wife singers Kirk Dougherty and Cabiria Jacobsen perform works of Purcell, Handel, Britten, Gershwin, and Porter, as well as selections from two new song cycles.

Alan Louis Smith
Vignettes: Ellis Island

Gabriel Kahane
Craigslistlieder

Friday, Aug. 31
5 p.m. (at the Shrine of the Ages)
School of Rock student concert
Rock along with Grand Canyon high school students in this culminating recital as they display what they learned during the week-long School of Rock with Bonfiglio Group members Stephen Benson and Joe Deninzon. Read More

Sunday, Sept. 2
4 p.m. (at the Grand Canyon Community Building)
NACAP Concert
Native American Composer Apprentice Project. Read More

We're excited about this season's stellar group of artists. Come hear performances by:
by the Catalyst Quartet, Robert Bonfiglio, Joe Deninzon, Stephen Benson, ETHEL (Jennifer Choi and Cornelius Dufallo, violin; Ralph Farris, viola; Dorothy Lawson, cello), Cabiria Jacobsen, mezzo-soprano; Kirk Dougherty, tenor; Jon Klibonoff, piano; & Clare Hoffman, flute.
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