And if guns and smoke grenades aren’t your thing, then maybe
classical music is and if it is – then you’ll want to be at the
Bliss Center at 7:30. That’s when accomplished Belizean composer and classical
pianist Frankie Reneau will perform at his annual concert with music students.
This year they will share the stage with the Pallotti Strings and the Choral
Society. We met Reneau practicing this afternoon and he told us it’ll
be a bit of something old and something new.
Frankie Reneau, Composer & Pianist
“Tonight we have a little different program because we’ve included
the Pallotti Strings and also Belize Choral Society who are singing some arrangements
of Belize folksongs that I wrote some time ago. So there is a whole mix match
of music, classical but different styles. There is some jazz as well, a solo
violin with piano and various other things.
I am a person, as you know a pianist but I am also a composer and with
my last work for the 25th anniversary of independence, that was something different
– a whole other side of me. So I like experimenting with different styles
of music but essentially I am a classical musician and tonight there will be
things more pertaining to that.
Some people like classical music, some people don’t and that happens
in all parts of the world. I try to choose a program that will be understood
and more readily sort of appreciated by audiences in Belize. I could choose
other programs which would perhaps be not so well appreciated but what we will
be doing tonight I think people will enjoy.”
Tonight’s show starts at 7:30. Ticket prices are $20 and $15.
This will be the only opportunity to see Frankie Reneau perform this year because
the second performance that was scheduled for tomorrow at the George Price Center
has been cancelled. Reneau told us it is because of logistics. A crestfallen
release from the George Price Center said it had been planned months in advance
and was the highlight of the center’s September program. The release said
Reneau himself was disappointed but he expressed none of that to us.
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