This Sunday and the next Sunday audiences in the Wood River Valley are invited to step out of the ordinary and into a world of beauty, love, and transcendence through The Divine Intervention, a luminous recital of 19th- and 20th-century Spanish and French songs performed by mezzo-soprano Anna Majernikova and pianist Ashley Mekeel.
The performances will take place at 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 26th, at St. Charles Catholic Church in Hailey and at 5 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 2, at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Ketchum.
Admission is free, offering the community a rare opportunity to experience world-class classical music in an intimate, soul-nourishing setting.
The Divine Intervention was born from a profound musical kinship between two artists who share a deep belief in the sacred power of music to heal, uplift, and awaken something beautiful within us all.
“For both of us, music is more than sound. It’s prayer, it’s energy, it’s transformation,” said Majernikova. “When we perform together, it feels like a conversation between souls, one that opens hearts, brings peace, and reminds us of what’s truly timeless and real.”
Mekeel echoed that sentiment, describing their collaboration as “a space where the spirit of music takes over — where every note feels alive, and both the performers and the audience are changed by it.”
This recital invites listeners on a journey through some of the most exquisite love songs ever written — works by Fernando Obradors, Reynaldo Hahn, Claude Debussy, Enrique Granados, Gabriel Fauré and W. Gómez.
The program flows through the emotional landscapes of human love and divine longing from Obradors’ playful and passionate Spanish songs--“La mi sola, Laureola” and “Del cabello más sutil”--to Hahn’s tender “À Chloris,” Debussy’s mystical “La flûte de Pan” and Fauré’s deeply prayerful “En prière.”
Each piece opens a new portal of emotion — joy, nostalgia, devotion, heartbreak, and transcendence — woven together through The Divine Intervention’s signature sound, which is warm, grounded, and filled with radiant presence.
For Majernikova and Mekeel, this recital is more than a concert — it’s an offering.
“We want to create a space where people can feel, breathe, and simply be,” Majernikova said. “A space where music becomes medicine, where pain turns into beauty and where hearts remember how to hope again.”
Majernikova and Mekeel hope audiences will leave not just inspired, but transformed — carried by the timeless magic of classical music and the intimate alchemy of two artists deeply in tune with each other and with the soul of their art.
“Each time we come together to sing and play, time seems to stop,” said Majernikova. “Inner freedom arises, peace fills our hearts and love expands through every sound. This is what we love sharing with our audience — a sacred moment where the soul can breathe.”