Chamber Orchestra opens season with Baroque Fireworks Oct 7, 2009
The internationally acclaimed harpsichordist, Layton Skip James, concertmaster Paul Sonner, and principal flute, Bonnietta Benn will be featured soloists performing Bach s Brandenburg Concerto # 5. Brandenburg Concerto # 5 is a tour de force for the soloists, including an extended cadenza for the harpsichord in which Bach challenged the limits of virtuosity. (Gaylord Herald Times, MI)
Chamber Orchestra to play Northern Michigan venues Sep 12, 2009
Beginning in October, the GLCO is bringing Layton Skip James from the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra to perform Bach s Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 with the orchestra s concertmaster, Paul Sonner, and principal flute, Bonnietta Benn. Titled Baroque Fireworks, the program includes Handel s popular Royal Fireworks Music and a Concerto by Tomaso Albinoni. (Gaylord Herald Times, MI)
Infinite Playlist Aug 3, 2009
Rose has also reworked some early jazz and blues tracks; Skip James delivers Devil Got My Woman with spooky immediacy, twanging strings and all. The whole time, I felt a degree of psychic unease. (New Yorker)
2008 Blues Challenge Finals are this week Feb 8, 2009
Close your eyes to hear the passages of the Deltamen like Skip James, Charlie Patton, Tommy Johnson, with a song or two by Fred McDowell or Robert Johnson. Even as a young man, his musical depth will make you wonder just who gave him this talent. (Middletown Press, CT)
