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Who saw Laura?
ROBERT SARGENT FAY, HANCOCK, NH! Congratulations, Robert - you won Aureole Trio's Celtic Grace CD!!
Who named the mystery man?
MRS. TIM HENDERSON of DEERFIELD, NH, that's who! Wrote Mrs. Henderson, "I'll bet that's Jonathan Bagg!" You are correct, so congratulations - you'll be the proud wearer of a Ciompi Quartet t-shirt!
Thanks to all who participated! Keep on playing - more contests to come!
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THIS WEEK'S CONCERTS
Shows in bold are at the Peterborough Town House
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From our Music Directors:
A Unique Week!!
Free concerts this week in Hancock and Swanzey feature the return of the Ciompi String Quartet, performing one of Beethoven's great works - the string quartet in e minor Op. 59 #2. Also returning will be clarinetist Steve Jackson and percussionist David Schotzko. New arrival, Rahim AlHaj, will bring traditional Iraqi oud music and his own compositions to the Deering free concert, and to the Peterborough Town House on Saturday, where he will appear together with the Ciompi Quartet.
Ancient Voices (Saturday, 8PM) promises music of the highest caliber from many different sources: virtuosi in the folk traditions of Ireland and the Mideast, along with the transcendent voices of Olivier Messiaen and George Crumb. Messaien responded to, and was inspired, by birdsong as he wrote Petites Esquisses d'Oiseaux. Crumb took flight in his Voice of the Whale upon hearing the groundbreaking recordings of whalesong made in the '70s by biologist Roger Payne. Pianist Emma Tahmizian joins flutist Laura Gilbert and cellist Rafael Popper-Keizer for this 20th century masterpiece.
Also on Saturday, at a 5PM pre-concert, our audience has an opportunity to hear one of the milestone works of the 20th century, Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time (Quatuor Pour le Fin de Temps), a one-of-a-kind work for piano, violin, cello, and clarinet that was written from the depths of World War II, to be played by Messiaen's fellow prisoners at a Nazi concentration camp. Hearing our wonderful musicians perform this is an opportunity not to be missed!
(Follow the asterisk * for information on another event this night!)
Sunday at 3PM marks the return to the Monadnock Music stage of world-renowned pianist Konstantin Lifschitz, in a recital that includes Bach, Chopin, and Scriabin.
- Jonathan Bagg and Laura Gilbert
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THIS WEEK'S CONCERTS:
Thursday, July 24, 8 p.m., Hancock Congregational Church
Concert schedule:
Schubert: String Trio in B-flat Major, D. 581
Penderecki: Clarinet Quartet (1993)
Rzewski: To the Earth (1985) for flowerpots and text
Beethoven: String Quartet no. 8 in e minor, Op. 59, No. 2 Rasumovsky
Adela Pena, violin; Tawnya Popoff, viola; Rafael Popper-Keizer, cello; Steven Jackson, clarinet; David Schotzko, percussion; Ciompi Quartet: Eric Pritchard, Hsiao-mei Ku, violins; Jonathan Bagg, viola; Fred Raimi, cello.
Friday, July 25, 8 p.m., Deering Community Church
Concert schedule:
Schubert: String Trio in B-flat Major, D. 581
Penderecki: Clarinet Quartet (1993)
Oud music, featuring Rahim AlHaj
Adela Pena, violin; Tawnya Popoff, viola; Rafael Popper-Keizer, cello; Steven Jackson, clarinet; Rahim AlHaj, oud.
Friday, July 25, 8 p.m., Swanzey, First Congregational Church
Concert schedule:
Reger: Serenade in G Major, Op. 141a
Milhaud: Quartet No. 7, Op. 87
Rzewski: To the Earth (1985) for flowerpots and text
Beethoven: String Quartet no. 8 in e minor, Op. 59, No.2 Rasumovsky
Laura Gilbert, flute; Eric Pritchard, violin; Jonathan Bagg, viola; David Schotzko, percussion; Ciompi Quartet.
Saturday, July 26, 5 p.m., Peterborough Town House
Pre-concert:
Messiaen: Quatuor Pour le Fin de Temps (Quartet for the End of Time), honoring Olivier Messiaen's 100th Birthday!
Adela Pena, violin; Rafael Popper-Keizer, cello; Steve Jackson, clarinet; Emma Tahmizian, piano.
Saturday, July 26, 8 p.m., Peterborough Town House: Ancient Voices
Concert schedule:
Messiaen: "Petites Esquisses d'Oiseaux" pour piano, Traditional Celtic melodies for flute and guitar
Crumb: Vox Balenae
Music for oud and String Quartet (Rahim AlHaj, oud)
Vali: Folk Songs
Emma Tahmizian, piano; David Weiss, Celtic flute and woodwinds; Kevin Kuhn, guitar; Laura Gilbert, electric flute; Rafael Popper-Keizer, electric cello and cello; Rahim AlHaj, oud; Eric Pritchard, Hsiao-mei Ku, violins; Jonathan Bagg, viola; Fred Raimi, cello; David Schotzko, percussion.
* After the Ancient Voices concert, our Musicians, including David Weiss, Kevin Kuhn, and Ciompi Quartet's Hsiao-mei Ku will join bluegrass wonders, The Birch Benders, for a STRING SMACKDOWN JAM SESSION at Harlow's Pub across the street!
Sunday, July 27, 3 p.m., Peterborough Town House: Konstantin Lifschitz, Piano Recital
Concert schedule:
Bach: English Suite Nr. 5 in e minor, BWV 810
Franke: "...in Annaeherung..." from the cycle , "half-way house"
Korndorf: A Letter to Martynov and Pelecis
Scriabin: Sonata No. 8, Op. 66
Chopin: 12 Etudes Op. 25
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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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 Monadnock Music's programs are funded, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts.
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 Major support for Monadnock Music comes from over 1,000 individuals and businesses. Funders also include the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, the Amphion Foundation, Anne and Gordon Getty Foundation, the Argosy Foundation, The Francis Goelet Lead Charitable Trusts, The Virgil Thomson Foundation, and Putnam Foundation.
Photo features Adela Pena, Tawnya Popoff, and Maestro James Bolle.
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