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Monadnock Music gets off to a fast start this week with no less than
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FIVE concerts!
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WHO ARE WE?
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The Borromeo Quartet, of course! |
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| Maestro James Bolle! |
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THIS WEEK'S CONCERTS
Shows in bold are at the Peterborough Town House
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07/09/08, Wednesday, 8PM - Our season opener, The Sound of Color: Claude Debussy and the Visual Arts, combines the talents of pianist Leslie Amper with art historian Ann Allen, who present paintings by various artists, to illuminate the music of Debussy. It will be a rare cross-disciplinary exploration of some of the potent and influential aesthetic trends in play during Debussy's lifetime.
07/10/08, Thursday, 8PM - FREE - Our six-week season of free chamber concerts begins in Franklin Pierce University's comfortable Pierce Hall, with music for flute, harp, and strings, performed by our versatile musicians. Ries and Kuhlau wrote delightfully in the classical style; Kodaly brought riveting folk melody and rhythm into chamber music a la Bartok; Jan Bach evokes the bardic traditions of the ancient British Isles in a dramatic trio for flute, harp and viola.
Repertoire:
Flute Quartet, in C Major Opus 145 ---- Ferdinand Ries
Eisteddfod: Variations on a Welsh Harp Tune --- Jan Bach
Serenade, Op. 12 --- Zoltan Kodaly
Quintet No. 3 in A Major, Op. 51 --- Frederick Kuhlau
Laura Gilbert, flute; Renee Krimsier, flute; Gabriela Diaz, violin; Mary Hammann, viola; Jonathan Bagg, viola; Rafael Popper-Keizer, cello; Stacey Shames, harp.
07/11/08, Friday, 8PM - FREE - On Friday chamber music continues at Harrisville Community Church, and includes the Borromeo Quartet performing an early Beethoven string quartet.
Repertoire:
Eisteddfod: Variations on a Welsh Harp Tune --- Jan Bach
Quintet No. 3 in A Major, Op. 51 --- Frederick Kuhlau
String Quartet in D, Op 18, No. 3 --- Beethoven
Laura Gilbert, flute; Renee Krimsier, flute; Gabriela Diaz, violin; Mary Hammann, viola; Jonathan Bagg, viola; Rafael Popper-Keizer, cello; Stacey Shames, harp; Borromeo Quartet
07/12/08, Saturday, 8PM - A gala chamber orchestra concert with Maestro James Bolle conducting. Gorgeous wind sonorities come to the fore in works of Mozart, Brahms, and Stravinsky, with the Monadnock Music Festival Players.
Repertoire:
Wind Serenade in c minor, K. 388 --- W. A. Mozart
"Dumbarton Oaks" Concerto --- Igor Stravinsky
Danses Sacrée et Profane for harp and strings, L. 103 --- Claude Debussy
Serenade No. 2 in A Major, Op. 16 --- Johannes Brahms
07/13/08, Sunday, 4PM - On Sunday afternoon the world-renowned Borromeo Quartet returns to Peterborough. Quartets of Schumann, Bartok, and a grand Quintet by Bruckner - his only "Symphony" for chamber ensemble!
String Quartet No. 1 in a minor, Op. 41 --- Robert Schumann
String Quartet No. 3 --- Bela Bartok
String Quartet in F Major --- Anton Bruckner
Nicholas Kitchen and Kristopher Tong, violins; Mai Motobuchi, viola; Yeesun Kim, cello. With Jonathan Bagg, viola.
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Monadnock Music gratefully acknowledges Peer Associates, Swanzey, NH, for supplying projection equipment July 9th, and Peterborough Camera Shop, Route 101, Peterborough, NH for support of our archival Web and video programs. We would also like to thank G. Sherman H. Morrison, Antioch University New England.
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Monadnock Music is supported, in part, by funding administered by The New Hampshire Charitable Foundation - Monadnock Region. |
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