2010 SEASON OVERVIEW
Monadnock Music returns in 2010 to both the Town House in Peterborough and the Jaffrey Center Meetinghouse, and to the many churches and town halls across the region where our free concerts have always taken place. Look for another year of music ranging from Bach to the present day: chamber music, songs, concertos and quite a bit more, performed by our superbly gifted musicians. In addition to the ticketed series previewed below, this year’s free concerts will have two exciting summer-long projects:
- Mozart Trail: following last year’s popular Beethoven trail, we’ll perform one of Mozart’s incomparable string quintets- each one a unique and wondrous work- every week in free concerts. These are among the most profound pieces in the repertoire and will offer any who wish to follow the trail a stirring musical journey over the course of the summer.
- Song a Week: each week, a new song composed for Monadnock Music’s 2010 season, set to poetry by past fellows of the MacDowell Colony. The poets have contributed work that was inspired by their experiences in the Monadnock Region. Composer and poets will be at the concerts to share thoughts on their collaboration, one that has roots in our towns, fields, and forests!
NOTE: Schedule is tentative!
Saturday,
July 10
7:30pm
Peterborough
Town House
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Gala Opening: Chamber Concertos
Samuel Barber: Adagio for Strings
W.A. Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 12 in A major, K.414
for piano and Strings
Heitor Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasilieras No. 5,
for soprano and 8 celli
J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5
Rieko Aizawa, piano soloist, Ilana Davidson, soprano soloist
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Sunday, July 11
4:00pm
Jaffrey Center Meetinghouse
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Chamber Music Masterpieces
Franz Josef Haydn: London Symphony
(Salomon arrangement)
Melinda Wagner: Pan Journal, for harp and strings
Johannes Brahms: Piano Quintet in f minor, Op. 34
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| Saturday, July 17
7:30pm
Peterborough
Town House
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Borromeo String Quartet
J.S. Bach: St. Anne’s Fugue BWV 552
(transcribed by Nicholas Kitchen)
Gunther Schuller: String Quartet No. 4
Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet in E-flat,
Op. 127
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| Saturday,
July 24
7:30pm
Peterborough
Town House
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Battery Dance & Martha Graham dancers
Battery Dance director Jonathan Hollander collaborates with Monadnock Music to create an evening of music and dance on the Town House stage, with dancers from Martha Graham.
J.S. Bach: Prelude and Fugue
Rabindranath Tagore: Songs performed
by Samir and Sanjita Chatterjee, tabla and voice
Trio interlude: John Cage, Mozart fugues
Lukas Foss: Capriccio, for cello and piano
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Sunday, July 25
4:00pm
Jaffrey Center Meetinghouse |
Virginia Eskin, piano recital (1 hour)
Program TBA
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| Saturday,
July 31
7:30pm
Peterborough
Town House
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American Spiritual
Stephen Foster: songs
James Primosch: Four Sacred Songs,
with Janna Baty, mezzo-soprano
Folk artists Rani Arbo & Indra bring American
traditional song alive
5pm Pre-concert:
James Bolle songs: Two Premieres and
a Conversation
Janna Baty, mezzo soprano
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Sunday, August 1
4:00pm
Jaffrey Center Meetinghouse |
Chamber Music Masterpieces
Robert Schumann: Scenes from Fairyland, for clarinet, viola, and piano
Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Quintet
Mario Davidovsky: Romancero, for mezzo, flute, clarinet, violin, cello,
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| Saturday,
August 7
7:30pm
Peterborough
Town House
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Paris of the Senses
Ernest Chausson: Chanson Perpetuelle for mezzo,
strings, and piano
Claude Debussy: Chansons de Bilitis for voice, flutes,
harps, celeste
Manuel de Falla: Psyche, for soprano and ensemble
Olivier Messaien: Le Merle Noir, for flute and piano
Ernest Chausson: Concerto for violin, piano, and
string quartet
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| Saturday,
August 14
7:30pm
Peterborough
Town House
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Moonstruck: Myth, Poetry, and Percussion
Arnold Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire, for soprano,
clarinet, flute, violin/viola, cello, and piano
Luciano Berio: Circles, for soprano and percussion
Milton Babbitt: Philomel, for soprano and tape
Tony Arnold, soprano;
Special guest speaker: Soprano Bethany Beardslee |
Sunday,
August 15
4:00pm
Jaffrey Center Meetinghouse |
Chamber Music Masterpieces
Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms: F-A-E Sonata
movements for violin and piano
Maurice Ravel: Introduction and Allegro for harp, flute,
clarinet, and strings
Steven Mackey, Indigenous Instruments, for flute, violin,
viola, cello, and piano
Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quintet in c minor, Op. 1
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