Baritone Nick Volkert in recital at St. Bede’s on Oct. 21

The alchemy of music and poetry ignite for a tour-de-force program of music for voice and piano on Sunday, Oct. 21, at 4:00 pm. Nick Volkert’s recital will feature Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Songs of Travel (poetry of Robert Louis Stevenson), Gerald Finzi’s Let us Garlands Bring (poetry of William Shakespeare), and a song cycle set to poetry of Robert Frost, written for the soloist by his father, Mark Volkert. Rani Fischer accompanies on piano. St. Bede’s is located at 2650 Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park. Tickets at door: $15 general admission/$10 senior/$5 student