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"Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht" (Be quiet, chatter not), BWV 211, also known as the Coffee Cantata, is a secular cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it probably between 1732 and 1735. Although classified as a cantata, it is essentially a miniature comic opera. In a satirical commentary, the cantata amusingly tells of an addiction to coffee.

Live-streamed from The Old Church - Portland, OR
September 29th, 2021

Scot Crandal, tenor - The Narrator
Zachary Lenox, baritone - Mr. Schlendrian (Stick in the Mud)
Jocelyn Claire Thomas, soprano - Lieschen (His Daughter)
Rachel Rencher, flutist
Michael Barnes, pianist
Amahl and the Night Visitors - A Virtual Adaptation
​By Gian Carlo Menotti

​Amahl - Lindsey Rae Johnson
His Mother - Jocelyn Claire Thomas
King Kaspar - Ray Jackson
King Melchior - Kevin Walsh
King Balthazar/The Page - Zach Lenox
Shepherds - Erin Walker, Allison Knotts, Michael McDonald, Adrian Rosales
Dancers - Amelia Unsicker, Kasy Martinez-Musgrave
​Pianist - Steve Lewis

​This production was created in adherence with all COVID-19 health and safety guidelines in the state of Oregon (as of December 2020).
Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater is a transcendently beautiful and deeply personal musical meditation on suffering and redemption, written by the 26-year-old composer as he himself lay dying.

Live-streamed from Tabor Heights United Methodist Church - Portland, OR
​March 26th, 2021 
​
Jocelyn Claire Thomas, soprano
Hannah Penn, mezzo-soprano
​Brian Thomas, pianist
Ravel's ​L'enfant et les Sortilèges (The Child's Frightful Fantasy) 

​A co-production of Ping & Woof Opera and Necessity Arts Collective. Benefitting the Oregon Food Bank.

Directed by Hayley Glickfeld Bielman
New English translation by Emily Newman
Sing-a-long music arr. Kevin Elmore
Puppets by Dragon Theater Puppets (Jason Ropp)
Costumes by Eileen Ehlert

Lindsey Rae Johnson as The Child
Jocelyn Claire Thomas, soprano roles
Sadie Gregg, mezzo-soprano roles
Ray Jackson, tenor roles
Brian Thomas, pianist
​Simon Bielman, keyboardist 
Brahms' Liebeslieder Walzer op. 52
The Old Church - Portland, OR
February 14th, 2018

Jocelyn Claire Thomas. soprano
Hannah Penn, mezzo-soprano
Scot Crandal, tenor
Zachary Lenox, baritone
Brian Thomas, pianist
​Paul Hanau, pianist
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