2025 Concert #5 OPUS 127
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postponed
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7:30 pm
Saturday, August 16, 2025
For the final St. Paul’s concert (Saturday), nothing makes more sense for thisAmerican-flavored season than to feature Guthrie Ramsey, our 2025 Composer-in-Residence, jazz pianist, and music historian extraordinaire. He has written a work for string quartet and jazz singer, which his daughter, soprano Bridget Ramsey, will perform with us. The piece, Beat Chick: Tunes for Hettie Jones, is a tribute to Bridget’s grandmother, the legendary beat poet and Mid-century cultural center of gravity, Hettie Jones, who passed away last year.
The father-daughter duo will also perform Gershwin’s Summertime and a spiritual by the Queen of Folk, Joan Baez. Anchoring that concert is none other than Beethoven’s Opus 127, one of the master’s late, great, string quartets that went on to re-shape the direction of classical music.
- Pre-Concert Talk at 6:45 with Composer-in-Residence Guthrie Ramsey
Free!
Get TicketsFounded in 1711 as a mission parish of the Anglican Church in British American during the reign of Queen Anne of Great Britain, St. Paul’s is the oldest continuous Episcopal Parish in Massachusetts and one of the oldest in America. The current building is the fourth, the third on this site at 166 High Street.
Concert #5 Opus 127
- Pre-Concert Talk at 6:45 with Composer-in-Residence Guthrie Ramsey
Music of Ramsey, Carter, Baez, Beethoven
