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MEDIA ALERT
ROB MATHES PERFORMS ENCORE CONCERT OF ORIGINAL
SONG CYCLE - AT NIGHT A SONG IS WITH ME
Concert Saturday, November 6, 8pm, at Christ Church Greenwich
WHO: Back by popular demand, the talented and world-renowned musician and Greenwich resident Rob Mathes will perform a one-night-only encore concert of his original song cycle, At Night A Song Is With Me: A Cycle of Ballads and Psalms for Singers, Rhythm Section and Orchestra, with lyrics by internationally acclaimed Irish poet Micheal O’Siadhail.
WHAT: The concert will be performed at 8:00 p.m., Saturday, November 6, 2010, at Christ Church Greenwich, 254 E. Putnam Avenue, Greenwich, Conn. The entire performance will be recorded and filmed in high def. Tickets are $40 and are available online at www.courageandfaith.org or at The Music Source in Old Greenwich www.themusicsource.org (203-698-0444).
A pre-event talk entitled Words Before Music: Putting it Together, along with preferred seating for the concert are also available for $75 per person and features a discussion with Rob Mathes and Micheal O’Siadhail about At Night A Song is With Me. These tickets are also available online at www.courageandfaith.org or www.themusicsource.org.
The original performance of At Night A Song Is With Me premiered last spring to a sold-out audience. The response was so overwhelming that Rob Mathes agreed to perform the spectacular evening of music and song one more night in his hometown of Greenwich, Conn., before taking the performance to other cities. This will likely be the last local performance of this piece for a long time.
At Night A Song Is With Me is an original song cycle written and created by Mathes, who is a Grammy and Emmy nominated musician, and whose work with the annual Kennedy Center Honors was recently recognized with a 2010 Emmy for the Best Variety, Music, or Comedy Special. Rob Mathes’ impressive resume includes work with just about every major musician throughout the world. He is currently wrapping up an exciting year working with Sting, co-producing Sting’s Symphonicities CD and working as music director and orchestrator for Sting’s 2010/2011 World Tour with The Royal Philharmonic. He is currently producing the debut album by Matthew Morrison of the TV hit Glee, and produced the critically lauded Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook, the new CD by legendary Rhythm and Blues singer Bettye LaVette. At Night A Song Is With Me is a crowning achievement for Mathes and the impressive evening of music on November 6 features The New York Chamber Consort, an orchestra drawn from some of the finest musicians in Manhattan, including members of the New York Philharmonic; and singers, including the Christ Church Choirs, and the amazing Pop and RnB vocalists Laila Biali and Mike Harvey. Rob will also be singing and playing, along with Ben Wittman on Drums and David Finck on Bass.
WHEN: Saturday, November 6, 2010, 8:00 PM
WHERE: Christ Church Greenwich 254 E. Putnam Avenue, Greenwich, CT
WHY: At Night A Song Is With Me was commissioned by Conversations on Courage & Faith, a series of lectures, artistic performances and spiritual experiences that inspires and equips people to live Christianly in a postmodern world. Conversations on Courage and Faith is a Christian formation program of Christ Church Greenwich. Future events include Nigel Mumford on November 14, Dr. Anthony Campolo on January 9, The Rev’d Dr. Jeremy Begbie on March 12-13, Dr. Maya Angelou accompanied by Rob Mathes on April 2, and N.T. Wright on May 14-15. For more information on the Conversations on Courage & Faith series, contact info@courageandfaith.org or visit www.courageandfaith.org. To learn more about the Rob Mathes encore performance of At Night A Song Is With Me, or any of the upcoming events in the Conversations on Courage & Faith series, visit www.courageandfaith.org. For more information on Rob Mathes and his music, visit www.robmathes.com.
CONTACT: Jenifer Howard
203-273-4246
jhoward@jhowardpr.com
