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Timucua Arts Foundation (Website) will hold its annual Forever Fête benefit concert on Saturday, November 14, with a concert by the family of co-founder Benoit Glazer, plus food, wine, and a silent auction.
The evening begins at 7:30 p.m. at the white house, a venue the Glazers built around their actual home at 2000 S. Summerlin Avenue [GMap]. Proceeds support Timucua Arts Foundation. The foundation was incorporated in 2004 and is a separate entity from the white house property, which hosts many of its performances.
The program draws on the family’s Québécois heritage. Glazer, a Montreal-born conductor, composer and multi-instrumentalist, will perform with his wife, Élaine, and their sons Charles Édouard, a bassist and violinist, and Jean-Marie, a cellist and vocalist. The sons are scheduled to tour Asia next year with the Hollywood Festival Orchestra, which has made rehearsing together harder. “It’s becoming more of a challenge to get all of us together to practice,” Élaine said. “I’m so grateful they want to get together. It’s a real joy.”
One piece began with Glazer’s father, an electrician who met a farmer along the north shore of the St. Lawrence River who played a familiar reel in an unfamiliar way. Glazer later built a movement of a trumpet concerto around that version of the Journeyman’s Reel. At the Fête, Charles will play it on viola, in a different key, as a tribute to Glazer’s father.
Another of Glazer’s compositions, “Baie-Trinité,” is named for the Québec coastal village where the family spent summers when the children were young. Élaine’s mother, known as Mimi, still lives there, and her handmade cards are displayed in the white house lobby.
The family will also play a selection from Joe Hisaishi’s score for the 1986 animated film “Castle in the Sky,” which their daughter Camille loved. Glazer’s arrangement of Michel Legrand’s “The Windmills of Your Mind” for horn and piano will be performed in Camille’s honor.
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