Music Angels for Coronavirus Patients

Carmine Demarco posted this message to the NJCGS FaceBook page:

CLASSICAL GUITARISTS:

   Your help, and hearts, are needed. A new unit has been set up at Englewood Hospital, for COVID-19 patients. It is a comfort/palliative care unit: they are moving patients there for whom there is nothing further the doctors and nurses there can do. Currently, this new unit is stark and bare … undecorated and lacking warmth. We have set up a new Facebook Page, “Music Angels for Coronavirus Patients”, to bring together and share FB Live music performances on that Page. A nurse in this new comfort care unit at Englewood Hospital will show the music performances to the patients on a tablet. (The unit is also in need of original art for the walls, if you have friends who paint or draw.)

I’m asking all of my Facebook musician friends who have been doing Facebook Live performances to please set your privacy preferences to “Public” for your performances, past and upcoming, so that your performances can be shared on the Page. It is https://www.facebook.com/Music-Angels-for-Coronavirus-Patients-103325721337648/.

   You can also share the videos yourself to that Page. Please just make sure to set your privacy preferences to “Public” for all such videos that you are willing to share. Also, please MESSAGE ME to let me know that you’ve gone “Live” so I know to look for it in case I’ve missed your performance. THANK YOU.

Online Events at Raritan River Music and Mannes

Michael Newman opened our April 5 meeting with some announcements about upcoming online guitar events we can participate in while safely maintaining social distancing from home:

These pieces were played at our second Zoom Meeting on April 5:

Rick Florio

• Prelude (for Lute BWV 999) — J.S. Bach
• Sarabande and Double (Violin sonata BWV 1002) — “”

Helen Shi-Yuen

• Sons de Carrilhões — João Pernambuco

Valerie Nelson

• Solitudine — L.O. Anzaghi
• Andante Grazioso — Fernando Carulli
• Valsa Sem Nome — Baden Powell de Aquino

Robert Ey

• April Come She Will — Paul Simon, arr. Jim Bosse

Ray Butler

• Here Comes the Sun — George Harrison, arr. Ray Butler

Ken Kraus

• Menuet from Third Cello Concerto — J.S. Bach
• Pavan #2 — Luis Milan

Ben London

• Farewell — Sergio Assad
• Suite Compostelana mvt. 2 “Coral,” — Frederico Mompou
• Cello Suite no.3: Sarabande —S. Bach

Jeff Griesemer

• The Girl With The Flaxen Hair — Claude Debussy, arr: Jeff Griesemer

Ming Chao

• Cuna and Cancion from Suite Compostelana — Federico Mompou

Gad Berger

• The Parting Glass – Trad. arr by Laura Snowden
• Milonga — Jorge Cardoso

Jeffrey Wilt

• Prelude #5 — Bryan Johanson
• Study, Op. 35, #8 — Fernando Sor
• Adios a Ocumare — Angel Maria Landaeta, arr. Antonio Lauro

Chris Freitag

• Preludio de Adios — Alfonso Montes
• Danza Brasiliera — Jorge Morel

Our Next Zoom Meeting will be on Sunday, April 19, at 4:00 p.m.

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