Saturday, April 26th, at 6:30pm
Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 1
“too deep for words”
Borah Kang, Piano, Katie Abernethy, Violin, Jake Muzzy, Cello
Faith Community Church building,
910 Main Street, West Chicago, IL
To request seats:
“Pay What You Want” #pwyw ($1 min). For cash or check: details.
For cash or check: email/text/tell us how many seats you would like at jake@realconcerts.us or (630) 303-0235 – you can chip in at the concert – or come for free (we need to keep track of seating capacity though so let us know you are coming). You can also “chip in” even if you can’t come – consider it a contribution to the community (select 0 for number of seats requested).
Past Events
March 2025
Vivaldi, Handel, Beethoven
“Is it not strange, that sheeps’ guts should hale souls out of men’s bodies?”
Rudy Hasspacher, Viola, Jake Muzzy, Cello, Hannah Muzzy, Piano
February 2025
Love
“thou hast brought me many flowers”
Hannah Muzzy, Harp, Joyce Anne Wilder, Flute, Jake Muzzy, Cello
January 2025
Dvorak, Donne & Dickinson
The KING of concertos, Dvorak’s cello concerto has all the grandeur of the greatest symphonies, and a special significance to be revealed. Paired with poems of John Donne and Emily Dickinson to further illuminate the music.
“I will bring you back to this land.”
Jake Muzzy, Cello, Mike Messer, Piano.
November 2024
Music for Two
Mozart & More
“such toppling structures of double meaning, such skyrockets of metaphor and allusion”
Yuriy Geyer, Violin, Jake Muzzy, Cello
October 2024
Solo Cello
Vision Concert
“Upon thy glimmering thresholds”
Jake Muzzy, Cello
September 2024
Pub Crawl
The Jot & Tittle – The Alamo – Plunkett’s Pub
The Quartet Club, Strings, Ola Rafalo, Soprano
August 2024
Summertime
Gershwin & More
“music in the silver air”
Kevin Brown, Guitar, Jake Muzzy, Cello
July 2024
La Belle Époque
Sonata in A major by César Franck
“If ye turn again, and rest, ye shall be safe; in stillness and in hope shall be your strength”
Mike Messer, Piano, Jake Muzzy, Cello
June 2024
June Bride
“the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride”
Jake Muzzy, Cello, Hannah Muzzy, Harp
May 2024
May Flowers
Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn & More
“the lily of the valleys”
Jake Muzzy, Cello, Katie Abernethy, Violin, Janna Williamson, Piano
April 2024
The Quartet Club 2
Mendelssohn & Mozart
“a thousand blended notes”
Caroline Jones, Beth Novak, Violins, Benton Wedge, Viola, Jake Muzzy, Cello
March 2024
Bach’s Cross & Irish Music
“Christ will Crown the Crossbearers” – J. S. Bach
Jake Muzzy, Cello, Hannah Muzzy, Harp, Gillian Ruch, Fiddle
February 2024
Salut d’Amour
“one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon”
Jake Muzzy, Cello, Hannah Muzzy, Harp
January 2024
The Divine Dance
Baroque Dance, Viennese Waltz, and Tango!
“He does great things beyond searching out, and wonders without number.”
Jake Muzzy, Cello, Mike Messer, Piano
December 2023
Christmas Paradoxes – Songs of Longing and Hope
“our desires [are], not too strong, but too weak”
Jake Muzzy, Cello, Benton Wedge, Violin, Katie Wetherington & Ken Muzzy, Vocals, Hannah Muzzy, Harp & Piano, Wedge & Muzzy families, Various
November 2023
Honoring Veterans
Autumn Leaves
“the feast of harvest”
Hannah Muzzy, Harp, Jake Muzzy, Cello
October 2023
The Italians – Bel Canto
“the trees of the wood sing out”
Hannah Muzzy, Harp, Jake Muzzy, Cello
March 2023
The Quartet Club
Haydn “The Lark” (Op. 64, no. 5)
~ the music of friends ~
Beethoven “Razumovsky” (Op. 59, no. 3)
~ seeking our true country ~
“Now those who say such things show that they are seeking a country of their own.”
Caroline Jones, Beth Novak, Violins, Benton Wedge, Viola, Jake Muzzy, Cello
September 2022
The Mendelssohn Octet
Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 & Vivaldi’s Concerto for Two Violins and Cello.
“Let the waters teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth . . .”
Lakeside Artists Guild & Friends: Tammie Ringas, Rebekah Cope, Kjell Sleipness & Caroline Jones, Violins, Benton Wedge & Johanna Yeager, Violas, Patricia White & Jake Muzzy, Cellos, Andy Anderson, Bass, and Lisa Kristina, Keyboard
January – February 2022
Salut d’Amour
Hannah Muzzy, Harp, and Jake Muzzy, Cello
January 2020
Joy and Sorrow Mingled
“Sorrow is better than laughter, for by sadness of face the heart is made glad.”
“. . .and I was daily his delight, rejoicing before him always”
Jake Muzzy, Cello
Ruth Mudge, Cello
November 2019
An Army with Banners
“Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?”
Hannah Muzzy, Harp, Jake Muzzy, Cello, Betty Meneses, Flute
October 2019
A Harp Concert for Girls at the Bells’
“I will also praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, O my God.”
Featuring Hannah Muzzy, Harp
September 2019
Harp & Cello Concert
“Water in the Desert”
Hannah Muzzy, Harp, and Jake Muzzy, Cello
