The Milwood Series Sundays at 3 p.m.
“Providing fine arts events for the enjoyment and enrichment of community and congregation.”
Inaugurated in 1988, the fine arts series at Milwood United Methodist Church in Kalamazoo celebrated its Twenty-fifth Jubilee Season in 2012. Organized by calendar year, the series offers four Sunday afternoon events annually. Open to the public without charge, a free will offering is received during each program to help defray expenses. Refreshments and fellowship with the artists are available after each event. Sadly, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, only one event was presented in 2020, and a complete season in 2021 has not been possible. Our best hope is that we might be able to resume the series in October and December of 2021.
The Fine Arts Team includes Jeff Anson (chair), Sheila Clothier, Carl Doubleday, Lisa Girr, Helen Palleschi, Eric Rice, and Kevin West. Nancy Welshman is an honorary member.
“Providing fine arts events for the enjoyment and enrichment of community and congregation.”
Inaugurated in 1988, the fine arts series at Milwood United Methodist Church in Kalamazoo celebrated its Twenty-fifth Jubilee Season in 2012. Organized by calendar year, the series offers four Sunday afternoon events annually. Open to the public without charge, a free will offering is received during each program to help defray expenses. Refreshments and fellowship with the artists are available after each event. Sadly, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, only one event was presented in 2020, and a complete season in 2021 has not been possible. Our best hope is that we might be able to resume the series in October and December of 2021.
The Fine Arts Team includes Jeff Anson (chair), Sheila Clothier, Carl Doubleday, Lisa Girr, Helen Palleschi, Eric Rice, and Kevin West. Nancy Welshman is an honorary member.
The first concert of the 2022 Milwood Series featured Baritone Carl Ratner, Soprano Svetlana
Stone, and collaborating pianist Wilson David Casallas Palomo. Titled “A Musical Visit to Russia,”
the program featured an array of music by Russian composers. The concert was presented in collaboration
with the Kalamazoo Russian Cultural Association. Click the video link below to watch the free concert!
Stone, and collaborating pianist Wilson David Casallas Palomo. Titled “A Musical Visit to Russia,”
the program featured an array of music by Russian composers. The concert was presented in collaboration
with the Kalamazoo Russian Cultural Association. Click the video link below to watch the free concert!
Carl Ratner described the program with these words: “The goal was to introduce the audience to as many
Russian (and Russian-descended) composers as possible, as well as to many different types of songs;
classical, traditional, opera, movies, Broadway, popular, etc.” The list of composers reads like a “Who’s
Who List” of Russian and Russian descended musical masters: Tchaikovsky, Glinka, Rimsky-Korsakov,
Rachmaninoff, Prokoviev, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, and Leonard
Bernstein. Ratner and Stone will sing both solos and duets, and the program includes a Prokoviev etude
performed by pianist Wilson David Casallas Palomo.
Russian (and Russian-descended) composers as possible, as well as to many different types of songs;
classical, traditional, opera, movies, Broadway, popular, etc.” The list of composers reads like a “Who’s
Who List” of Russian and Russian descended musical masters: Tchaikovsky, Glinka, Rimsky-Korsakov,
Rachmaninoff, Prokoviev, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, and Leonard
Bernstein. Ratner and Stone will sing both solos and duets, and the program includes a Prokoviev etude
performed by pianist Wilson David Casallas Palomo.