Performances...

2012.1.1 - Sunday - New Years Day
4:00 p.m.
"Out with the Old" - a recital of classical music
Parish of St. Clement
1515 Wilder Avenue
Honolulu, Hawai`i
Rachel Evangeline Barham, soprano
James Rogers, baritone
Winston Barham, piano

See program here...

2011.11.29 - Tuesday
12:10 p.m.
Tuesday Concert Series at the newly-renovated
Church of the Epiphany
1317 G Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20005
(Metro Center)
Recital of American and British songs and sacred pieces
Rachel Evangeline Barham, soprano
Chloe Canton, piano
Free with requested donation
See program here...

2011.11.10 - Thursday
7:00 p.m.
Inaugural Barham Memorial Concert
Click here for program
Art songs, duets, and sacred pieces
First United Methodist Church of Waynesville
Waynesville, North Carolina

Rachel Evangeline Barham, soprano
James Rogers, baritone
Winston Barham, piano and organ
We raised over $600 for The Rathbun Center!
Thanks for your support!

2011.10.15 - Saturday
7:30 p.m.
Soloist, Bach Mass in F Major, BWV 233
with Cantate Chamber Singers
St. John's Church, Norwood Parish
Bethesda, Maryland

2011.10.16 - Sunday
3:00 p.m.
Joint Musicale* (followed by a reception)
Calvary Lutheran Church

*This recital was co-sponsored by music fraternities Mu Phi Epsilon and Sigma Alpha Iota. It was Rachel's first public performance of songs from the set Oh fair to see by Gerald Finzi, plus Virgil Thomson's setting of Gertrude Stein's stream-of-consciousness text "Preciosilla."

The Outcasts of Poker Flat, a new chamber opera based on Bret Harte's short story of Gold Rush California, depicts six vastly different persons trapped in a series of deadly mountain blizzards. Worldly characters (a gambler, two prostitutes, and a thief) are marooned together with inexperienced ones (a young miner and his fiancée); their shared danger brings out noble qualities in some of them, selfish traits in others. A story of love, courage, cowardice, betrayal, and redemption through self-sacrifice, Harte's story points up the falseness of social classes when people are removed from society and reveals humanity's ultimate helplessness before the forces of nature.