Musicians, photographer combine for concert

Overland Park Richard Stoltzman, clarinet, Bill Douglas, piano, and John Pearson, photographer, will combine music and photography in a multimedia concert at 8 p.m. Saturday in Yardley Hall at Johnson County Community College, 12345 College Blvd.

A preconcert talk by Tony Bushard, a Kansas University graduate student in musicology, will begin at 7 p.m.

The program includes classical works by Shubert, Schumann and Poulenc; jazz pieces by Thelonious Monk; improvisations; and original pieces by Douglas that combine the influences of Celtic, African and Brazilian music with classical and jazz.

Tickets are $20 and $25 and are available by calling (913) 469-4445.

Concert highlights music of Tudor England

The Kansas University Instrumental Collegium Musicum will present “The Music of Tudor England” at 7:30 p.m. March 3 at the Spencer Research Library at KU.

The concert will be in conjunction with an exhibition of documents signed by King Henry VIII and Queen Elizabeth I, the two most famous monarchs of the English Tudor dynasty.

The concert will open with dances and songs from the court of Henry VIII, including music that the king wrote. Also featured are “O Deathe, Rock Me Asleepe,” said to have been written by Anne Boleyn, Henry’s second wife, as she waited execution in the Tower of London.

Representing the reign of Elizabeth I will be six-part recorder music by William Byrd, England’s most famous Renaissance composer; songs by John Dowland; and other dancers and instrumental works.

Performers are Ai-Ling Chiu, Karen Ernst, Julie James, Gorgias Sanchez, Roberta Freund Schwartz, Anne Tempel and Mandy Walters, recorders; Jonathan Glawe and Julia McLaren, viol; Anne Marie Kauffman and S’ng Oh, sopranos; Christine Anderson, Baroque violinist; and Tony Bushard, harpsichordist. Paul Laird, KU associate professor of musicology, is director and plays the Baroque cello and viol.

The concert is free and open to the public.

Author explores lives of survivors’ children

Helen Epstein, a Harvard University journalist best known for her book “Children of the Holocaust,” will give a free lecture at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the ballroom of the SpringHill Suites by Marriott, Sixth and New Hampshire streets.

She will talk on “Memoir as a Tool for Understanding History.” Her book is the first to deal with post-traumatic stress syndrome in children of Holocaust survivors.