Steuart & Michelle Pincombe, Kangwon Kim
Geneva Campus Church 401 N. Blackhawk Ave., Madison, Wisconsin 53705
press release: First stop on the Music in Familiar Spaces tour: Madison
For one year cellist Steuart Pincombe and his wife and singer Michelle are traveling around the country bringing the highest level of classical music performance to homes, churches, cafés, bars, or any place where community already exists. The tour is called Music in Familiar Spaces and its first stop will be Madison.
On Thursday October 8, at the Geneva Campus Church the couple will present a concert called “What Wondrous Love” together with Madison-based violinist Kangwon Kim. The program features spirituals and music from the early shape-note tradition in America. The audience will experience some elements of the early shape-note singalongs, being seating on all four sides of the performers and asked to join in singing for the last piece.
One of the aims of the Music in Familiar Spaces tour is make classical music accessible to a wide and varied audience. This will be accomplished not only by performing in familiar, comfortable and untraditional spaces, but by designing programs that invite the audience to experience the music in a new and engaging way. The audience will also be asked to name-their-own-ticket-price, paying what they can afford and what they deem the concert is worth.