Join us for the launch of the Soluna Concert Series’ inaugural season!

Soluna Concerts take the audiences through immersive experiences and present thought-provoking concepts by featuring music and musicians in a more personal way. The combination of music, imagery and spoken word creates a multi-sensory concert experience. Every concert becomes a unique adventure, which delves artistically into the human mind, spirituality, imagination, and the beauty of our world.

FROM CANDLELIGHT

Date: Thursday, May 25th, 2023

Time: 7pm

St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral

127 NW 7th Street, Oklahoma City

Admission fee: $15, paid at the door.

The second concert of our inaugural season toe-tapping, fiery, jazz- and tango- influenced music of Astor Piazzolla, George Gershwin, Manuel Ponce and Paul Schoenfeld with the intimate and ambient atmosphere of the space at St. Paul’s Cathedral. Musicians and audience surrounded by a multitude of candles, rose petals will experience the beauty and power, which comes from combining different senses.

Join the musicians for a reception following the concert.

Featured musicians:

Angelika Machnik-Jones, cello

Erin Ripka, violin

Joseph Ripka, piano

Ruirui Ouyang Johnson, piano

Program:

Astor Piazzolla - Le Grand Tango for Cello and Piano

Astor Piazzolla - Four Seasons of Buenos Aires for Piano Trio

George Gershwin - Three Preludes for Piano

Manuel Ponce - Estrellita for Violon and Piano

Paul Schoenfeld - Cafe Music for Piano Trio

FROM DARKNESS

Date: Thursday, October 27th, 2022

Time: 7:00pm

Church of the Servant in Oklahoma City

Admission: fee amount of ones choice. All proceeds will go towards future Soluna performances, as well as Oklahoma Conservatory Of Music.

This first concert concert of our inaugural season presents a spiritual journey from darkness to light.

Featured musicians are: Erin Ripka - violin, Ruirui Ouyang-Johnson - piano, and Angelika Machnik-Jones - cello.

Program:

Krzysztof Penderecki - Notturno for Solo Cello

Arvo Pärt - Fratres for Cello and Piano

Eric Satie - Gnossienne no. 1 for Solo Piano

Peteris Vasks - Castillo Interior for Violin and Cello

Arvo Pärt - Mirror in Mirror for Cello and Piano

Poetry written by Angelika Machnik-Jones, recorded by Tim Oden.

You hide in plain sight, unconvinced of your worth.

Darkness. Void of hope, warmth, life. All that remains are your thoughts, blank, imagined, like shadows in a cave.

You fight and you struggle and you sink in deeper. So don’t fight it, don’t struggle. Just watch the shadows in a cave.

Is that all it is? The desolation, the remembrance of the past. Yet, what is darkness if not the absence of light? So turn around. Remember the shadows, but choose the light. Find the light. Where is it? That fleeting glimmer of hope, of what could be. Can you see it?

You walk through life unsatisfied, questioning the truth. You’ve turned halfway, with your sight neither in the dark nor in the light. You’re wondering and seeking in a perpetual state of grey. Will you find it? Will you find the light?

The feeling of warmth inside of your heart, the vibrating flutter inside of your soul. The ray of sun finding it’s way through a stained glass window. You run and you seek, escaping the truth. There is no cave, there is no fire, there are no shadows. The truth is inside of you, both the dark and the light. But you struggle and you fight. Why do you fight? Because without darkness there is no light, without pain there is no love. So struggle and fight, then understand the light.

Light is beauty, light is peace. Light is kindness, compassion and love that refuses to cease. Light is you, you creature of heaven, you product of love. So love just as you are loved, unconditionally, painfully, beautifully.