On this Sunday, Nov 22 at 3pm, Hope Church will be hosting a concert with Rhonda on organ and three flute ensembles – Hope College Flute Choir, Flutes Soli (a pre-college student group) and Great Lakes Flutes (made up of members of the West Michigan Flute Orchestra). The flutes will be playing pieces by themselves, and there will be three ensemble pieces with flutes and organ – an arrangement of Albioni’s Adagio for Strings, a movement from Guillmant’s Organ Concerto, arranged for flutes instead of orchestra, and a piece written especially for Rhonda and Julie Sooy (director of the West Michigan Flute Orchestra), titled Whistling Thirds. Whistling Thirds was written by Barry Jordan, distinguished organist and cathedral musician in Magdeburg, German. Jordan hails from South Africa, and is an accomplished composer as well as organist. He has written a fun, jaunty piece for flutes and organ that shows off many characteristics and idiomatic sounds of both instruments. Come out for an afternoon of great music!
~Rhonda Edgington, Organist and Associate Director of Music