Submitted by event organizers.

St. David’s Episcopal Church will be presenting a concert in the sanctuary on Sunday, May 18, at 3 p.m., with local artists Sasha von Dassow, cello, Eleanor Bennett-White, Mezzo-soprano, and Elizabeth Schaltenbrand, piano. Suggested donations of $20-30 will be gratefully accepted.

The concert, titled “Juxtapositions and Connections,” will include JS Bach’s Suite #6 for solo cello, several art songs by 20th-century Black American composer Florence Price, Romantic-era composer Camile Saint-Saens’ “Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, Opus 33” and music by the living Black American composer, Adolphus Hailstork.

The artists have worked together in various community settings including Melodious Notes and are coming together to explore pairing works by varied composers. Price’s songs are lyrical, witty and colorful settings of poems by 20th-century American writers like Langston Hughes and Ogden Nash, among others. They sit alongside music by one of the founders of Western musical harmony and thinking, Johann Sebastian Bach, whose influence is seen in the work of contemporary Black American composer Hailstork in his sonata for cello. Saint-Saens’ “Rondo” is a virtuoso piece, originally for violin, that contrasts slow and seductive melodies with brilliant passagework that showcases the possibilities outside of the norm for cello repertoire.