Dealing with Passion

Dealing with passion

We are days away from our concert "Christmas, a Feast for the Senses", Sunday the 20th at 4 pm at the Westwood Methodist Church. The music is well written and beautifully performed. But there's more. The Wagner Ensemble has never settled for the superficial trappings that would satisfy the average concert-goer. Our supporters are an elite group of people who are fastidious fans seeking to have an experience that speaks to their lives in the most fundamental facet, the innate passion of the moment.

The expression of the soul leaves it with a degree of exposure, a sense that it is vulnerable to the ravages of an imperfect world bent on gratification with a voracious appetite at the expense of expression. Yet we step boldly into that position putting our doubts and fears aside and allowing the release of our feelings to flood into the music to give it the life and richness that sets it apart. It is the infusion of life-force that is the basis of passion. After a lifetime reconciling success and loss, rapture and regret, trust and doubt, Jeannine draws from a full panoply of passion and all their consequent motives. There is a richness arrived at by the ordination of ardor in music that makes it transcendent. With it communication goes beyond rhyme and reason, into the mystical realm of emotion.

All our concerts strive to bring excellence, erudition, and insight to our audience. More than entertainment, although there will be plenty of that, the Wagner Ensemble will showcase the legacy of its founder by the faithfulness to The Sound by his daughter, Jeannine.