Retaurants
 

 

CONCERT CALENDAR

Peterborough Town House concert dates are in BOLD.

Wednesday, July 9, 8pm
Peterborough Town House

Leslie Amper, Piano Recital:

The Sound of Color- Debussy and the Visual Arts

With discussion by Ann Allen, Art Historian

 

Thursday, July 10, 8pm
Rindge, Franklin Pierce University, Pierce Hall

Ries: Flute Quartet Op 145

Jan Bach: “Eisteddfod” (Aureole Trio)

Kodaly: Serenade

Kuhlau: Quintet

 

Friday, July 11, 8pm
Harrisville Community Church

Jan Bach: “Eisteddfod” (Aureole Trio)

Kuhlau: Quintet

Beethoven: String Quartet Op. 18 #3 (Borromeo Quartet)

 

Saturday, July 12, 8pm
Peterborough Town House

This concert will be recorded for later broadcast by
WGBH 89.7, Boston.

Serenades:

James Bolle, conductor
Monadnock Music Festival players

Mozart: Wind Serenade in c minor K. 388

Stravinsky: “Dumbarton Oaks” Concerto

Debussy: “Danse Sacrée et Danse Profane” for harp and strings (with Stacey Shames, harp)

Brahms: Serenade in A, Op. 16

 

Sunday, July 13, 4pm
Peterborough Town House

 

Borromeo Quartet:

Schumann: String Quartet in a minor, Op. 41 #1

Bartok: 3rd String Quartet

Bruckner: String Quintet in F (with Jonathan Bagg, viola)

 

Thursday, July 17, 8pm
Wilton Center Unitarian Church

Bridge: Lament for 2 violas

Harbison: 6 American Painters for flute and strings

Brahms: String Quintet in G Op. 111

 

Friday, July 18, 8pm
Francestown, Old Meeting House

Bridge: Lament for 2 violas

Harbison: 6 American Painters for flute and strings

Brahms: String Quintet in G Op. 111

 

Saturday, July 19, 8pm Peterborough Town House

Birth of the Modern:

Antheil: 2nd Violin Sonata

Dvorak: f minor Piano Trio, Op. 65

Lourié: Duo for violin and viola

Schoenberg: Verklaerte Nacht for string sextet

 

Sunday, July 20, 4pm Peterborough Town House

This concert will be recorded for later broadcast by
WGBH 89.7, Boston.

Rieko Aizawa, Piano Recital:

Mozart: Rondo in D Major, K. 485

Takemitsu: Rain Tree Sketch II

Chopin: Bolero, Op.19

Chopin: Fantasie, Op.49; Messiaen: Preludes (1929)

 

Thursday, July 24, 8pm
Hancock Congregational Church

Schubert: B-flat String Trio D. 581

Penderecki Clarinet Quartet

Percussion solo

Beethoven Quartet Op. 59 #2

 

Friday, July 25, 8pm
Deering Community Church

Schubert B-flat String Trio D. 581

Penderecki: Clarinet Quartet

Oud music

 

Friday, July 25, 8pm
Swanzey, First Congregational Church

Solo Percussion

Reger: Serenade in G Op. 141a

Milhaud: Quartet #7

Beethoven: Quartet Op. 59 #2

 

Saturday, July 26, 5pm Peterborough Town House

Pre-concert:
Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time

Honoring Olivier Messiaen’s 100th Birthday

 

Saturday, July 26, 8pm Peterborough Town House

The Monadnock Music Ancient Voices concert is supported in part by a grant from New Hampshire State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

   

Ancient Voices:

Messiaen: “Petites Esquisses d’Oiseaux” for piano

Celtic flute and guitar

Music for oud and string quartet (Rahim AlHaj, oud)

Crumb: “Vox Balenae”

Vali: Folk Songs

 

Sunday, July 27, 3pm Peterborough Town House

Konstantin Lifschitz, Piano Recital:

Bach: English Suite Nr.5

Franke: works for piano

Scriabin: Sonata #8

Chopin: 12 Etudes Op. 25

 

Wednesday, July 30, 8pm Peterborough Town House

Parthenia (a consort of viols):

“When Music and Sweet Poetry Agree: the Musical Worlds of Shakespeare, Donne and Blake.”

With actor Paul Hecht and soprano Ellen Hargis.

 

Thursday, July 31, 8pm
Jaffrey Center Meetinghouse

Arensky: Quartet in A Op. 35, with 2 cellos

Prokofiev: Quintet

Mozart: Wind Octet in E-flat, K. 375

 

Thursday, July 31, 8pm
Sullivan, United Congregational Church

Hoffmeister: Solo bass quartet #3

Sheila Silver: Moon Prayer for sextet

Mendelssohn: Quartet in a minor Op. 13

 

Friday, August 1, 8pm
Marlow, Jones Hall

Hoffmeister: Solo bass quartet #3

Sheila Silver: Moon Prayer for sextet

Mendelssohn: Quartet in a minor Op. 13

 

Friday, August 1, 8pm
Milford Town Hall

Prokofiev: Quintet

Mozart: Wind Octet in E-flat, K. 375

Schubert: Octet

 

Saturday, August 2, 8pm Peterborough Town House

James Bolle, Conductor, and The Festival Orchestra:

Weber: Overture to Oberon

Grieg: Piano Concerto (Konstantin Lifschitz)

Kuss: Rhapsody for cello and orchestra
(Rafael Popper-Keizer)

Beethoven: Symphony no. 6, “Pastoral”

 

Sunday, August 3, 4pm Peterborough Town House

Chamber Masterpieces:

Britten: Phantasy, Op 2

Debussy: String Quartet

Schubert: Trout Quintet
(Ciompi Quartet and Monadnock musicians)

 

Thursday, August 7, 8pm
Rindge, Franklin Pierce University, Pierce Hall

Berlioz: Trio from “L’Enfance du Christ”

Sheila Silver: Fantasy on an Imaginary Folk Song

Martin: “Sonnets a Cassandre”

Hindemith: String Trio No. 2 (1933)

Dvorak: Viola Quintet in E-flat, Op. 97

 

Friday, August 8
Peterborough Town House

Pre-concert discussion with Lloyd Schwartz 7pm
Concert 8pm

Through the Mirror:

James Bolle, Conductor
Tony Arnold, soprano
Elizabeth Shammash

Gideon: Creature to Creature

Martino: Trio, 2004

Carter: A Mirror on Which to Dwell

Bolle: Sinfonia III (Premiere)

This is a FREE concert with open seating.

 

Saturday, August 9, 5pm Peterborough Town House

Percussion Discussion:

David Schotzko
Douglas Perkins
Nathan Davis

Percussion demonstration with audience participation

 

Saturday, August 9, 8pm Peterborough Town House

The Monadnock Music On the Beaten Path concert is supported in part by a grant from New Hampshire State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

   

On The Beaten Path, All-Percussion Concert:

David Schotzko, Doug Perkins, Nathan Davis, percussionists Donald Berman, prepared piano
Laura Gilbert, electric flute
Introduction by Joseph Schwantner

Thierry de Mey: Table Music

Cage: Interludes

Schwantner: Velocities

Crumb: Idyll for the Misbegotten

Xenakis: Okho

Davis: Diving Bell

Takemitsu: Rain Tree

 

Sunday, August 10, 4pm
Walpole Unitarian Church

Berlioz: Trio from “L’Enfance du Christ”

Sheila Silver: Fantasy on an Imaginary Folk Song

Martin: “Sonnets a Cassandre”

Hindemith: String Trio No. 2 (1933)

Dvorak: Viola Quintet in E-flat, Op. 97

 

Sunday, August 10, 5pm Peterborough Town House

Virginia Eskin, Piano Recital:

Bach: French Suite in G major

Foote: Five Poems of Omar Khayyam, Op. 4l

Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit

Bartok: Petite Suite

Grofe: Shades of Blue Suite

 

Thursday, August 14, 8pm
Nelson Congregational Church

Nielsen: from “The Mother”

Szollosy: Fragments

Tüür: Symbiosis

Elliott: Hommage a B.B

Eisler: Prelude and Fugue on B-A-C-H

Dahl: Concerto a Tre

 

Thursday, August 14, 8pm
Peterborough, All Saints' Church

Bach: Goldberg Variations

John Gibbons, harpsichord

 

 

Friday, August 15, 8pm
Washington Congregational Church

Haydn: Op. 20 #4

Tüür: Symbiosis

Johnston: String Quartet No. 4 “Amazing Grace”

Eisler: Prelude and Fugue on B-A-C-H

Piazzola: Pieces
iO Quartet (2008 Fellowship Ensemble) and Friends

 

Friday, August 15, 8pm
Temple Community Church

Szollosy: Fragments

Elliott: “Hommage a B.B”

Ran: “Private Game”

Dahl: Concerto a Tre

 

Saturday, August 16 5pm Peterborough Town House

This concert will be recorded for later broadcast by
WGBH 89.7, Boston.

Pre-concert, iO Quartet:
(2008 Fellowship Ensemble)

Mozart: String Quartet in Eb K. 428

Britten: String Quartet No. 2 in C

 

Saturday, August 16, 8pm Peterborough Town House

This concert will be recorded for later broadcast by
WGBH 89.7, Boston.

Philippe Castagner, tenor
Jane Hawkins, piano

Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin

Sunday, August 17 4pm Peterborough Town House

The Monadnock Music Dreams and Prayers concert is supported in part by a grant from New Hampshire State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

   

Dreams and Prayers:

Ilana Davidson, soprano
Elizabeth Shammash, mezzo sopran
o

Pärt: Spiegel im Spiegel

Schoenfield: “In Memoriam”

Bach: Cantata 115 aria “Bete aber auch dabei”

Shapey: “O Jerusalem”

Brahms: Two Alto songs

Golijov: “The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind” for Klezmer clarinet and strings

 

© 2008 Monadnock Music, Inc. All rights reserved.