We welcome everyone (FCM members and non-members) to join us in-person at our Tampa Center or online for a live concert beginning at 7:30 on October 29th to help raise disaster relief funds for the victims of Hurricane Ian. We are happy to be able to offer this evening of beautiful music through the generosity of FCM member and cellist Diana Fish, pianist Linda Jones, and FCM member and bassist/vocalist Chris Sidwell.
The concert will feature the Sonata in G Minor of Sergei Rachmaninoff for Cello and Piano, his most famous piece of chamber music. In four movements, the sonata is filled with the character so typical of Russia’s Romantic era. Few composers before Rachmaninoff could have so deeply explored the cello’s capacity for expressive tenderness and intensity. The mystical aspect to Rachmaninov’s art can be felt strongly throughout his cello sonata.
The remainder of the program will be short pieces, including some gems of the cello repertoire such as Kol Nidre of Max Bruch, Bach’s Arioso, Saint-Saens' The Swan, Rachmaninoff’s Vocalise, and a medley of popular favorites from “The Piano Guys” including A Sky Full of Stars. Chris will perform uplifting songs such as What A Wonderful World, Song Inside You, Breathing In & Breathing Out, as well as original compositions. Chris will joining the concert live via zoom from Minneapolis.
This concert is offered on a donation basis. Donations by check can be made payable to Florida Community of Mindfulness, with a notation of “DRF” (Disaster Relief Fund) and brought to the concert or mailed to the Center at 6501 N. Nebraska Avenue, Tampa, FL 33604. Or, you may donate online at floridamindfulness.org/DRF, where a special donation link has been created to receive your donation (if you cannot attend but would like to support the concert, you can donate in one of these ways as well). Please register by October 25 so that we can plan for the event. There is a hall capacity limit. Zoom links will be sent to online registrants prior to the concert.
About Our Artists
Diana Fish spent twenty years as Assistant Principal cello, “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band, White House Chamber Orchestra. She played Principal Cello in The Alexandria Symphony, Concert Artists of Baltimore, and was a member of The Sunrise Quartet and The National Gallery of Art Chamber Players. She is now a chaplain at Tampa General Hospital.
Linda Jones has undergraduate and graduate degrees in piano performance from UCF and USF. She has taught privately and has been a collaborative pianist for her career. She enjoys making mosaic art, gardening, and her pet parrots. Diana has collaborated with pianist Linda for the last six years, starting at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Clearwater where Linda was the pianist.
Chris Sidwell is an acoustic/piccolo bassist, composer, vocalist recording artist with over 40 years experience in the music industry. His recording label, Pacific Coast Music has generated a catalog of over 25 multi-genre albums, which have earned a prominent presence of all major streaming platforms. Chris lived in Cape Coral, FL for 17 years and did over 1400 performances with his jazz vocalist wife, Jean, at the Hyatt Regency Resort in Bonita Springs.
