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| If you guessed that this little cutie was the daughter of Boston's virtuoso cellist, Rafael Popper-Keizer, you were right!!
(That's tenor, Emiliano Loconsolo, and Maestro James Bolle in the background)
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| AND RAFAEL'S SON, KAI, IS GLAD YOU GOT IT RIGHT!! |
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| Kai laughing up a storm, captured on the music cam! |
| VIRGINIA ESKIN IS BACK! |
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| PIANO RECITAL, SUITES, on Sunday, August 10, 5PM, Peterborough Town House |
| Flutist Holly Druckman visits Monadnock Music August 7th (Franklin Pierce) and August 10th (Walpole)! |
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| Who is Holly? Well, she is the recipient of a 2008 ASCAP FOUNDATION MORTON GOULD YOUNG COMPOSER AWARD (Honorable Mention), that's who! Holly has performed chamber music with our Music Director, Laura Gilbert, and Holly's mum, harpist, Barbara Allen, since the days of Aureole Trio's first CD! This 18-year-old illustrious artist is headed to Columbia University in the fall. Holly studies flute under the tutelage of Laura, and is a star on the rise, for sure! KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR HOLLY - SHE'LL BE BACK NEXT YEAR, WE HOPE!! |
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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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...the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, which funded, in part, our Ancient Voices (Jul. 26), On the Beaten Path (Aug. 9), and Dreams and Prayers: Music of Devotion (Aug. 17) programs. Monadnock Music appreciates the support of NHSCA, providing us with the ability to bring you three concerts of works of eclectic origins.
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THIS WEEK'S CONCERTS
Programs in bold are at the Peterborough Town House
(Corner of Grove and Main Streets)
"It's the group of players that makes this festival so special. Jim [Maestro Bolle] has done incredibly remarkable things, and Jonathan and Laura are incredibly conscientious about continuing his work. Jim created the heart and soul, and Jonathan and Laura want to continue it with the creative programming they offer."
- David Schotzko, percussionist
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08/07/08, Thursday, 8PM - FREE CONCERT - Pierce Hall, Franklin Pierce University, Rindge:
Berlioz: Trio from "L'Enfance du Christ"
Vincent Persichetti: Serenade for flute and harp
Martin: "Sonnets a Cassandre"
Hindemith: String Trio No. 2 (1933)
Dvorak: Viola Quintet in E-flat, Op. 97
Holly Druckman, Laura Gilbert, flutes; Barbara Allen, harp; Ole Bohn, Gerald Itzkoff, violins; Eric Nowlin, Jonathan Bagg, violas; Christopher Gross, Gregory Hesselink, cello; Elizabeth Shammash, mezzo-soprano.
08/08/08, Friday - FREE CONCERT IN CELEBRATION OF ELLIOTT CARTER'S 100th BIRTHDAY!! - **7PM** - Pre-concert introduction with Lloyd Schwartz. **8PM** - Concert: Through the Mirror, featuring Maestro James Bolle conducting, Grammy Award-winning soprano Tony Arnold, and mezzo-soprano Elizabeth Shammash.
Gideon: Creature to Creature
Martino: Trio, 2004
Carter: A Mirror on Which to Dwell
Bolle: Sinfonia III and Sinfonia IV - WORLD PREMIERES!
Laura Gilbert, Claire Chase, flutes; Barbara Allen, harp; David Fulmer, Liza Zurlinden, violins; Jonathan Bagg, viola; Christopher Gross, Gregory Hesselink, cellos; Donald Berman, piano; Nick Masterson, oboe; Steven Jackson, clarinet; David Schotzko, Douglas Perkins, percussion; Jered Egan, double bass; Keith Kreindler, bassoon; Richard Watson, trumpet; Robert Couture, Greg Spiridopoulos, trombones.
This program has been sponsored, in part, by a grant from Putnam Foundation.
08/09/08, Saturday, 5PM and 8PM - **5PM** - Pre-concert Percussion Discussion, with audience participation! Demonstration by David Schotzko, Douglas Perkins and Nathan Davis. **8PM** - On The Beaten Path all-percussion concert with introduction by Joseph Schwantner:
Thierry de Mey: Table Music
Cage: Interludes
Schwantner: Velocities
Crumb: Idyll for the Misbegotten
Xenakis: Okho
Davis: Talking to Vasudeva
Takemitsu: Rain Tree
Percussionists: David Schotzko, vibraphone; Douglas Perkins, marimba; Nathan Davis; Donald Berman, prepared piano; Laura Gilbert, electric flute. With Joseph Schwantner introducing.
08/10/08, Sunday, 4PM - FREE CONCERT - Walpole Unitarian Church.
Berlioz: Trio from "L'Enfance du Christ"
Vincent Persichetti: Serenade for flute and harp
Hindemith: String Trio No. 2 (1933)
Martin: Quatre Sonnets a Cassandre
Dvorak: Viola Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 97
Holly Druckman, Laura Gilbert, flutes; Barbara Allen,harp; Ole Bohn, Gerald Itzkoff, violins; Eric Nowlin, Jonathan Bagg, viola; Christopher Gross, Gregory Hesselink, cellos; Elizabeth Shammash, mezzo-soprano.
08/10/08, Sunday, 5PM - Piano Recital - Virginia Eskin is back, with Suites!!
Bach: French Suite No. 5 in G major
Foote: Five Poems after Omar Khayyam, Op.41
Bartok: Petite Suite
Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit
Grofe: Shades of Blue Suite
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ON THE BEATEN PATH
WITH DAVID SCHOTZKO
DID YOU KNOW THAT DAVID...
- is married since 2002 (alas, ladies, we know, we know!)
- is a founding member of INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE (ICE), which blends chamber music and mixed instruments (ICE are headed to Finland in February 2009!). David's favorite work by Iannis Xenakis will be performed by ICE in September 2008. The mixed media piece is Xenakis's only opera and is based on Euripides' Oresteia and requires solo percussion, solo baritone, a 36-piece mixed chorus and a separate children's chorus, fourteen additional musicians, eight dancers and video elements. David will be solo percussionist, and says, "That's going to be the coolest thing I've ever done - I can't wait."
- has several favorite classical pieces: Monteverdi's L'Orfeo; Bach's 5th Cello Suite; Brahms' Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68; and Stravinsky's Rite of Spring
- is 30 years old and lives in Brooklyn, NY
- received his undergraduate degree from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, received his Master of Music Degree from the Yale School of Music, and is working on his Doctorate Degree in Percussion at SUNY/Stonybrook
- is in his third summer here at Monadnock Music. David subbed at McDowell in 2005 for Jason Treuting in the quartet known as Sō Percussion, and played the same week at the Town House, and we approached him, having seen him at McDowell. Renowned violinist, Ole Bohn (whom you saw in last weekend's orchestra concert) pushed for David's return in 2006, and the rest is history!
- has favorite films/film genre: the documentary Rize, and Akira Kurosawa's samurai films
- has a pet peeve: "...self-indulgent angst..."
- is moved by that which is "...classically tragic in the Greek sense...that which is quixotically romantic, even if not entirely realistic..."
- cites the biggest challenge he's had to overcome as his "general lackadaisical nature and tendency to be careless or oblivious (but not wreckless!)"
Tickets for On The Beaten Path (8PM, Saturday, August 9th) and the 5PM pre-concert Percussion Discussion are on sale right now, and available by calling (603) 924-7610 or (800) 868-9613!!
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 Monadnock Music's programs are funded, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts.
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