A Little Sunday Music Returns

BETHLEHEM, N.Y. – Now in its 18th year, Bethlehem Public Library’s annual winter concert series, A Little Sunday Music, opens its 2019-20 season Sunday, Nov. 17, at 3 p.m. with a performance by the Adirondack Baroque Consort, one of the oldest early music groups in the United States. “The Songs & Poems: A Claire Loux Centennial, 1919-2019," will feature the poetry and songs of Loux, a lifelong resident of Delmar. Please note that unlike other concerts in the series, this one will start at 3 p.m.

The music of the recorder complements Loux’s poetic style, and along with vocals and keyboard, the program will present a centennial sampler of her musical and literary creations memorializing familiar places in the Capitol District, including Thacher Park.

A chance meeting at the Austerlitz, N.Y., post office between Loux and poet Edna St. Vincent Millay led to friendship, with Millay encouraging the young Loux’s poetry. Poet Laureate Carl Sandburg and the late jazz pianist Marian McPartland were among Loux’s correspondents later in life. Loux’s collected works, “Far Horizons, The Poems & Selected Songs” was published posthumously by Dovehouse Editions.

A Little Sunday Music continues Dec. 8 at 2 p.m. with the Etude Club of Schenectady, which was founded in 1925 to provide an opportunity for women musicians to meet and perform for one another. After a short break in January, the concert series resumes Feb. 9 at 2 p.m. with Melanie Chirignan, a flautist known for musicality and versatility of repertoire accompanied by accomplished local pianist Michael Clement. A performance by the Musicians of Ma’alwyck rounds out the series on March 10 at 2 p.m.

Concerts are free and open to the public. A Little Sunday Music is sponsored by the Friends of Bethlehem Public Library.

The library is located at 451 Delaware Avenue in Delmar. Call (518) 439-9314 or visit www.bethlehempubliclibrary.org for more information.

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