Monadnock Music 2013 Festival
48th International Season Concert Listing
July 14 – August 25, 2013
Week 1
Sunday, July 14, 3:00 p.m.
Peterborough Town House (1 Grove St, Peterborough, NH)
OPENING NIGHT - Mozart & Maniaci!
Michael Maniaci, male soprano
Monadnock Music Festival Orchestra
Gil Rose, conductor
All-Mozart Program
Ballet Music from Idomeneo
“Il tenero momento” and “A se a morir mi chiama” from Lucio Silla
“Parto ma tu ben mio” and “Deh per questo” from Clemenza di Tito
Symphony No. 41 "Jupiter"
Tickets: $32 reserved; $27 (general admission); $10 (students)
($5 off per ticket when ordering by July 14, 2013)
Week 2
Thursday, July 18, 7:30 p.m.
Harrisville Community Church (13 Canal St, Harrisville, NH)
Monadnock Music Emerging Artists Series (Inaugural concert)
Lisa Pegher, solo percussion
J. S. Bach: Prelude in g minor
Claude Debussy: Dr. Gradus ad Parnussum from Children’s Corner
Joseph Schwantner: Velocities
Paul Lansky: Selections from Idle Fancies
Lisa Pegher: No Reply
Lisa Pegher: Liquefaction
Maurice Ravel: Sonata for Violin and Cello (transcribed for marimba and vibraphone)
Joe Sheehan: Vibraphone Loops
Jacob Druckman: Reflections on the Nature of Water (select movements)
Derek Bermel: Figure and Ground
Admission: Free-of-charge. No tickets or reservations required. Voluntary donations to support the Monadnock Music Village Concerts will be accepted at the performance.
Saturday July 20, 7:30 p.m.
Peterborough Town House (1 Grove St, Peterborough, NH)
Soprano Barbara Quintiliani Returns
Barbara Quintiliani, soprano
William Hicks, piano
G. F. Handel: “Furie terribili” from Rinaldo and “Ah! mio cor” from Alcina
Lèo Delibes: “Les filles de Cadix”
Manuel Garcia: “Parad!”
Pauline Viardot: “Morirò” and “Havanaise”
Georges Bizet: “Ouvre ton Coeur” from Vasco de Gama
Songs de Obradors --
“La mi solo Lareola” “Del caballero mas sutil”
“En el pinar” “El vito”
Nicolai: “Nun eilt herbei” (in English) from The Merry Wives of Windsor
Selected Songs of Elinor Remick Warren
Tagore Songs of Richard Hageman --
“May Night” “Do Not Go My Love”
“At The Well”
Tickets: $32 reserved; $27 (general admission); $10 (students)
($5 off per ticket when ordering by July 14, 2013)
Sunday, July 21, 3:00 p.m.
Francestown Old Meeting House (1 New Boston Rd, Francestown, NH)
Monadnock Music Players
with Sebastian Lockwood, narrator
Michael Daugherty: Dead Elvis
Igor Stravinsky: L'Histoire du soldat (The Soldier’s Tale) (Complete)
Admission: Free-of-charge. No tickets or reservations required. Voluntary donations to support the Monadnock Music Village Concerts will be accepted at the performance.
Week 3
Thursday, July 25, 7:30 p.m.
Deering Community Church (Deering Center Rd, Deering, NH)
Monadnock Music Players
Horatio Parker: Suite for Piano, Violin and Cello, Op. 35 (1893)
Anton Arensky: Piano Trio in d minor, Op. 32 (1894)
Scott Wheeler: Granite Coast (MacDowell Colony Fellow)
Brahms: Piano Trio in C minor, Op. 101
Admission: Free-of-charge. No tickets or reservations required. Voluntary donations to support the Monadnock Music Village Concerts will be accepted at the performance.
Saturday, July 27, 7:30 p.m.
Peterborough Town House (1 Grove St, Peterborough, NH)
Lou Harrison – An American Maverick
Gabriela Diaz, violin
Monadnock Festival Singers
Krystal Morin, chorusmaster
American Gamelan
Gil Rose, conductor
Lou Harrison: Suite for Violin with American Gamelan
Lou Harrison: La Koro Sutro for Mixed Chorus, 6 Percussion, Organ and Harp
Tickets: $32 reserved; $27 (general admission); $10 (students)
($5 off per ticket when ordering by July 14, 2013)
Sunday, July 28, 3:00 p.m.
Dublin Emmanuel Church (18 Lehmann Way, Dublin, NH)
Four Strings Around the World
Irina Muresanu, Solo Violin
Sergei Prokofiev: Sonata for Solo Violin in D major, Op. 115
George Enescu: Airs in Romanian Folk Style
Dave Flynn: TarEis an Caoineadh
Fritz Kreisler: Recitativo and Scherzo, Op. 5
Niccolò Paganini: Caprice No. 24
J.S. Bach: Ciaccona in D minor, BWV 1004
Reza Vali: Calligraphy, No. 5
Ravi Shankar: L'aube Enchantee
Bright Sheng: The Stream Flows
Ástor Piazzolla: Tango Caprice No. 2
Mark O'Connor: Amazing Grace and Cricket Dance
Alan Jay Lerner/Frederick Loewe: “Almost like Being in Love”
Admission: Free-of-charge. No tickets or reservations required. Voluntary donations to support the Monadnock Music Village Concerts will be accepted at the performance.
Week 4
Thursday, August 1, 7:30 p.m.
Hancock Congregational Church (47 Main Street, Hancock)
Charles Blandy, Tenor Linda Osborn, Piano
Katherine Growdon, Mezzo Soprano
Gerald Finzi: Let us garlands bring
Leoš Janáček: The Diary of One Who Disappeared (Complete)
Admission: Free-of-charge. No tickets or reservations required. Voluntary donations to support the Monadnock Music Village Concerts will be accepted at the performance.
Saturday, August 3, 7:30 p.m.
Peterborough Town House (1 Grove St, Peterborough, NH)
The People United Will Never Be Defeated!
Stephen Drury, pianist
Frédéric Chopin: Ballade No.1 in g minor
Frederic Rzewski: The People United Will Never Be Defeated!
Tickets: $32 reserved; $27 (general admission); $10 (students)
($5 off per ticket when ordering by July 14, 2013)
Sunday, August 4, 3:00 p.m.
Wilton Center Unitarian Church (Isaac Frye Highway, Wilton Center, NH)
Monadnock Music Players
Jorge Villavicencio Grossman: Sialia (MacDowell Colony fellow)
Horatio Parker: Suite for Violin and Piano
Vincent D'Indy: Trio in Bb Major
Olivier Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time
Admission: Free-of-charge. No tickets or reservations required. Voluntary donations to support the Monadnock Music Village Concerts will be accepted at the performance.
Week 5
Thursday, August 8, 7:30 p.m.
Sullivan Congregational Church (435 Centre St, Sullivan, NH 03445)
A Musical Offering:
Julia Cavallaro, soprano; Sarah Paysnick, flute; Sarah Darling, violin;
Emily Rideout, viola;
Matthew Hall, harpsichord
J.S. Bach: Trio sonata in G Major and Trio Sonata from the Musical Offering
C.P.E. Bach: Piano Quartet in G and songs to be announced
J.J. Quantz: Select drinking songs
Franz Joseph Haydn: Arianna auf Naxos
Admission: Free-of-charge. No tickets or reservations required. Voluntary donations to support the Monadnock Music Village Concerts will be accepted at the performance.
Saturday, August 10, 3:00 p.m.
Peterborough Town House (1 Grove St, Peterborough, NH)
Sondheim Re-Imagined!
The Liaisons Project:
Composers Re-Imagining Sondheim for the Piano
(Selections to be announced)
Anthony De Mare, piano
Tickets: $32 reserved; $27 (general admission); $10 (students)
($5 off per ticket when ordering by July 14, 2013)
Sunday, August 11, 4:00 p.m.
Peterborough Town House (1 Grove St, Peterborough, NH)
Ned Rorem’s Our Town
Ned Rorem: Our Town
Staged production
Margot Rood - Emily Webb
Matthew DiBattista - Stage Manager
Brendan Buckley - George Gibbs
Gil Rose, Conductor and Director
Monadnock Music Festival Orchestra
Tickets: $32 reserved; $27 (general admission); $10 (students)
($5 off per ticket when ordering by July 14, 2013)
Week 6
Thursday, August 15, 7:30 p.m.
Nelson Congregational Church (830 Nelson Rd, Nelson, NH)
Majestic Brass Quintet
Eric Berlin and Richard Watson, Trumpets; Whitacre Hill, Horn;
Darren Acosta, Trombone; Takatsugu Hagiwara, Tuba
Ludwig van Beethoven (arr. Hill): Overture to Egmont
Giles Farnaby (arr. Howarth): Fancies, Toyes and Dreams
Giovanni Gabrieli (arr. Watts): Contrapunctus No. 4
Victor Ewald: Brass Quintet No. 3
Maurice Ravel (arr. Bergler): Pavane for a Dead Princess
Eric Ewazen: Colchester Fantasy
Leonard Bernstein (arr. Gale): Selections from West Side Story
Admission: Free-of-charge. No tickets or reservations required. Voluntary donations to support the Monadnock Music Village Concerts will be accepted at the performance.
Saturday, August 17, 7:30 p.m.
Peterborough Town House (1 Grove St, Peterborough, NH)
Schubert’s Magnificent String Quintet
Monadnock Quartet with guest cellist Rhonda Rider
John Dowland: Selections from Lachrimae
Horatio Parker: String Quintet in D minor, Op. 38
Franz Schubert: String Quintet in C Major
Tickets: $32 reserved; $27 (general admission); $10 (students)
($5 off per ticket when ordering by July 14, 2013)
Sunday, August 18, 3:00 p.m.
Jaffrey Center Meetinghouse (Laban Ainsworth Way, Jaffrey Center, NH)
Monadnock Music Players
Gustav Holst: Woodwind Quintet
Anton Reicha: Woodwind Quintet Op. 88, No. 2
Irving Fine: Partita for Wind Quintet
Carl Nielsen: Woodwind Quintet
Admission: Free-of-charge. No tickets or reservations required. Voluntary donations to support the Monadnock Music Village Concerts will be accepted at the performance.
Week 7
Thursday, August 22, 7:30 p.m.
Washington Congregational Church (1 Halfmoon Pond Rd., Washington, NH)
Duo Adia
Sarah Brady, flute; Ina Zdorovetchi, harp
Jean-Michel Damase: Sonata
George Rochberg: Slow Fires of Autumn
Witold Lutosławski: The Fragments
Alfred Zamara: Casilda Fantasy
Ned Rorem: Book of Hours
Ástor Piazzolla: Histoires du Tango
Admission: Free-of-charge. No tickets or reservations required. Voluntary donations to support the Monadnock Music Village Concerts will be accepted at the performance.
Saturday, August 24, 3:00 p.m.
Congregational Church of Temple (17 Main St , Temple, NH)
Monadnock String Quartet
Franz Joseph Haydn: String Quartet No. 44 in E Major
Horatio Parker: String Quartet in F Major
Leoš Janáček: String Quartet No. 1
Charles Ives: String Quartet No. 1
Admission: Free-of-charge. No tickets or reservations required. Voluntary donations to support the Monadnock Music Village Concerts will be accepted at the performance.
Sunday, August 25, 6:30 p.m.
Cathedral of the Pines (10 Hale Hill Rd, Rindge, NH)
(Rain venue: Peterborough Town House)
Finale al Fresco with Fireworks
Monadnock Music Wind Ensemble
Gil Rose, conductor
Music for the Pines & Mountains:
Season Grand Finale with Fireworks
Ron Nelson: Rocky Point Holiday
John Philip Sousa: The Northern Pines
Percy Grainger: Lincolnshire Posy
John Philip Sousa: The Gladiator
Andy Vores: Grand Monadnock Measures
(World Premiere – Monadnock Music Commission)
John Philips Sousa: Suite: The Last Days of Pompeii
Percy Grainger: The Power of Rome and the Christian Heart
John Philip Sousa: The Power and the Glory
Ottorino Respighi /arr. Duker: The Pines of Rome
Fireworks by Atlas to conclude the concert.
Tickets: $30/car, maximum of six per car
($5 off per ticket when ordering by July 14, 2013)