Congratulations to our Port Townsend Chamber Music Series musicians for another outstanding concert today, May 23, 2026. Thank you to First Baptist Church in Port Townsend for hosting this benefit event and to the standing room only audience who generously donated to the PTHS music program. It takes a village!
Shown in the photo are front row l. to r.: Thomas Blomster, Guy Smith, Kristin Smith, and Kristina Holm. Middle row l. to r. Tyrone Beatty, Pamela Roberts and Stephanie M. Neumann; back row l. to r. Susan Titus, George Shaffer, Sonya Shipley, Phil Hirschi, Sung-Ling Hsu, Michael Carroll, Gina Tran and Kim Clarke. (Not pictured are Bobbie Nikles, Roland Nikles, Haydn Montgomery and Marina Rosenquist.) (Photo by Craig Sibley)
Thank you also to our PTSO helpers Rebecca Carroll, Anne Shaffer, Cathi McDade, Robert Nathan and Nan Toby Tyrrell.
PROGRAM
Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen
La Llorona Mexican folk tune
Oye Como Va by Tito Puente
Thomas Blomster, Hayden Montgomery, George Shaffer,
Sonya Shipley and Susan Titus, percussion
Ein seer guter Organistischer Preambel for Lute Hans Neusidler
Guy Smith, all lute pieces
Aria for Saxophone and Piano by Eugène Bozza
Stephanie M. Neumann, saxophone; Michael Carroll, piano
Ein guter welscher tantz for Lute Hans Neusidler
Invierno Porteño (Winter in Buenos Aires) for Violin, Cello and Piano by Astor Piazzolla
Marina Rosenquist, violin; Pamela Roberts, cello; Sung-Ling Hsu, piano
Rain Light (inspired by “Rain Light” by W.S. Merwin) by Phil Hirschi
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird #1-5 (inspired by “Thirteen Ways of Phil Hirschi
Looking at a Blackbird” by Wallace Stevens) by Phil Hirschi
Bobbi Nikles, violin; Kristina Holm, bassoon; Phil Hirschi, cello; Thomas Blomster, udu (Nigerian drum) and percussion; Roland Nikles, narrator
Mille regretz, NJE 28.25 for Lute (Arr. H. Neusidler) Josquin de Pres
La Parfum des Fleurs (from the film score to “Yuri on Ice”) by Taku Matsushiba
Gina Tran and Kristin Smith, violin
Ich klag den Tag for Lute (Arr. Hans Neusidler) by Ludwig Senfl
Romance oubliée, S.527 for Viola and Piano by Franz Liszt
Impromptu by Dmitri Shostakovich
Romance for Viola and Piano, Op. 85 by Max Bruch
Tyrone Beatty, viola; Michael Carroll, piano
Du Fiensela (Dont vient cela) for Lute (Arr. Anonymous) by Claude Sermissy
Trio for Trumpet, Cello & Piano, Mov. 1 by Eric Ewazen
Kim Clarke, trumpet; Pamela Roberts, cello Sung-Ling Hsu, piano