Retaurants
 

 

PETERBOROUGH TOWN HOUSE CONCERTS

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

 

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)

 

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)

 

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.

 

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)

 

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

Creature

Martino: Trio, 2004

Carter: A Mirror on Which to Dwell

Bolle: Sinfonia III

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, 5pm Peterborough Town House

Virginia Eskin, Piano Recital:

Bach: French Suite in G major

Foote: Five Poems of Omar Khayyam, Op. 41

Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit

Bartok: Petite Suite

Grofe: Shades of Blue Suite

 

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
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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

 

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