Welcome to the FQA Home Page (archived January 2018)
The Fellowship of Quakers in the Arts has as its purpose “to nurture and showcase the literary, visual, musical, and performing arts within the Religious Society of Friends, for purposes of Quaker expression, ministry, witness, and outreach. To these ends, we will offer spiritual, practical, and financial support as way opens.”
FQA is looking forward to its next national Arts Project, to happen in May of 2018
FQA is looking forward to its next national Arts Project, to happen in May of 2018. We have decided on the theme name: ” The Arts in the Beloved Community”.
Through this theme’s events, we hope to be open to including all mediums of arts and all interested artists and to bring forth the richness and importance of our diversity in humanity and nature. The queries we have decided on so far to help organizers and participants think about their programs are:
1. As artists and appreciators of art, how can we most powerfully represent the diversity of our world’s people, animals and plants, waters and air? How can we connect our art with our concern for the earth and its inhabitants, human and other than human? What are we, as Quaker artists, called to do?
2. How can we express the depth and breadth of the beloved community in our artwork? And how can we share our art with others?
Your Classical Coffee Break
Paul Herron
Executive Director,
Bay Atlantic Symphony
Winter Transitions
December Podcasts
Here is the promised third in a series of interviews with Dr. Christopher DiSanto, as well as a marvelous sound tour guessing game.
You may choose to return monthly to the FQA Quaker website for 2018 broadcasts. Alternatively, you may subscribe on ITunes to automatically receive each new podcast
Paul Somers
Composer, Publisher,
Concert Host
Beethoven’s Metronome
In this freewheeling coffee break, clarinetist Dr. Christopher DiSanto, Associate Professor of Music, Stockton University, shares his perceptions on how artists approach virtuosic, as well as less technical, more emotional compositions. We talk about how a clarinet can play a cello solo, tempo and Beethoven’s metronome, and can “showing your chops” ruin musicality? We also listen to some exceptional clarinet performances.
Here We Go Awandering
(Turn up the volume a bit, the first piece starts out softly.) This coffee break puts on its hiking boots, dons scuba gear, and packs a thermos of java to begin a journey around the globe. Natural wonders and their topography have always inspired composers to recreate the Earth in music. Grab your passport and enjoy the celebration of Mother Earth. (FYI–as of the December 27 posting Pulitzer Prize-winning George Crumb is very much alive.)
Winter Transitions
January Podcasts
Three more legs of the musical sound tour begun at the end of December. Come back again to FQA Quaker website for more January podcasts.
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Dancing Lessons from God
Kurt Vonnegut stated, “Bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God.” This coffee break takes us on a whirlwind musical tour of Rome, Ithaca (NY), Japan, China, then back to New Jersey to hear Frances White’s fascinating piece which uses the sound of traffic over a bridge as a foundation, Along the way we listen to Respighi’s Fountains of Rome, as well as Henry Cowell’s Snows of Fujiyama and explore how Nature’s wonder serve as a muse for composers. contact the show at yccb@mauriceriverpress.com
Travelling Well, Not Yet Arrived
Your Classic Coffee Break agrees with the Buddha in believing that it is better to travel well than to arrive. In that spirit, we continue our world-wide journey exploring natural wonders through music, visiting a babbling brook in Connecticut, the Central Steppes of Russia, the Plains of North America, the Artic, and back to New England. Whew! But what road music! Mr. Somers sneaks in a beloved, well-known piece to finish this leg of our trip.
We Have Arrived Where We Started, Knowing the Place for the First Time
Your Classical Coffee Break takes its last lap on our world-wide journey. This time we go back in time as well to travel to the Brandenburg Gate with Dave Brubeck, Old California with William Grant Still, visit The Cloisters, and march down the Appian Way with Respighi and the Roman Army.
Call for Submissions for Paint Passion and Purpose
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