Chamber Music Festival of the East, July 29-August 2112:00AM / Wednesday, July 21, 2004
Chamber Music Festival of the East—Seminar/performance-- "Music Is Alive, Well, & All Over the Map!" presented by the bassoonist and composer John Steinmetz, senior composer-in-residence Donald Crockett, and the Festival faculty. Thursday, July 29, 7:30 p.m. This is the first of four seminars (including performances) presented by the Festival faculty. The seminars, which are free and open to the public, are presented in the Martha Hill Auditorium of the Visual and Performing Arts Center on campus. For driving directions, visit www.bennington.edu/main.htm and click on "directions." Free.
Chamber Music Festival of the East Concert Season Opener--Saturday, July 31, 8 p.m. The Chamber Music Festival of the East launches its 59th season of free concerts at Bennington College in North Bennington, Vermont. Highlight of the evening will be the world premiere of "The Ceiling of Heaven" a quartet by senior composer-in-residence Donald Crockett. Also on the program: Charles Wuorinen's "Transcriptions from The Glogauer Song Book," and "Turetzky Pieces," Sophia Gubaidulina's "Quasi Hoquetus," and Hillary Tann's "The Walls of Morlais Castle." The concert will be given in the Greenwall Auditorium of the Visual and Performing Arts Center on campus. Free.
Chamber Music Festival of the East--Seminar/performance-- "Inspiration, Text, and Music--Part I," Thursday, August 5, 7:30 p.m. Presented by composer-in-residence Stephen Hartke (this year's winner of the Charles Ives Living Composer Award), soprano Carol Meyer, and the Festival faculty. At the Martha Hill Auditorium of the Visual and Performing Arts Center on the Bennington College campus in North Bennington, Vermont. For driving directions, visit www.bennington.edu/main.htm and click on "directions." Free.
Chamber Music Festival of the East--Concert--Saturday August 7, 8 p.m. The program includes Handel's "Let the Bright Seraphim" aria for for soprano, trumpet obligato, and septet, plus composer-in-residence and current Charles Ives Living Award winner Stephen Hartke's quartet "The King of the Sun," Jan Dismas Zelenka's "Trio No. 5 in F Major" for flute, oboe, and bassoon, and the Brahms "Piano Quartet No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 60." Greenwall Auditorium of the Visual and Performing Arts Center on the Bennington College campus in North Bennington, Vermont. For driving directions, visit www.bennington.edu/main.htm and click on "directions." Free.
Chamber Music Festival of the East--Concert--Wednesday August 11, 8 p.m. The program's provocative combinations include Mozart's "Divertimento No. 10 in F Major, K. 247" for two horns and five strings, "Schilflieder: Five Fantasy Pieces after Poems by Nicholas Lenau" (with no vocal part!) by August Klughardt and Arnold Schoenberg's "String Quartet No. 2 in F# Minor, Op. 10" with soprano part for poems by Stefan Georg. (The inclusion of poetry, but the absence of a vocal part, in the Klughardt composition and the presence of poems and a vocal part in the Schoenberg string quartet will be discussed the next evening during the seminar on "Inspiration, Text, and Music--Part II.") Greenwall Auditorium of the Visual and Performing Arts Center on the Bennington College campus in North Bennington, Vermont. For driving directions, visit www.bennington.edu/main.htm and click on "directions." Free.
Chamber Music Festival of the East--Seminar/performance-- "Inspiration, Text, and Music--Part II," Thursday August 12, 7:30 p.m. Presented by violinist and music director Shem Guibbory, pianist Cynthia Adler, soprano Susanna Eyton-Jones, and the Festival faculty. At the Martha Hill Auditorium of the Visual and Performing Arts Center on the Bennington College campus in North Bennington, Vermont. For driving directions, visit www.bennington.edu/main.htm and click on "directions." Free.
Chamber Music Festival of the East--Concert-- Saturday August 14, 8 p.m. In addition to the second-ever performance of senior-composer-in-resence Donald Crockett's "The Ceiling of Heaven" for piano quartet, the diverse program will feature Felix Mendelsohn's "String Quartet No. 2 in A Major, Op. 13," composer-in-residence Gabriella Frank's "Las Sombras de los Apus" for cello quartet, and John Harbison's "Quintet for winds. Greenwall Auditorium of the Visual and Performing Arts Center on the Bennington College campus in North Bennington, Vermont. For driving directions, visit www.bennington.edu/main.htm and click on "directions." Free.
Chamber Music Festival of the East--Concert--Wednesday August 18, 8 p.m. The annual appearance of The Silvermine Quartet (this year augmented by the contrabassist Lewis Paer) will feature Dvorak's "Quintet for Strings in G Major, Op. 77." Also on the program: Haydn's "Piano Trio in D Minor, Hob. XV/23" and Debussy's "Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp." Greenwall Auditorium of the Visual and Performing Arts Center on the Bennington College campus in North Bennington, Vermont. For driving directions, visit www.bennington.edu/main.htm and click on "directions." Free.
Chamber Music Festival of the East--Seminar/performance-- "The 4-Handed Musician," Thursday, August 19, 7:30 p.m. Presented by the pianists Abba Bogin and David Oei. At the Martha Hill Auditorium of the Visual and Performing Arts Center on the Bennington College campus in North Bennington, Vermont. For driving directions, visit www.bennington.edu/main.htm and click on "directions." Free.
Chamber Music Festival of the East—Last Concert--Saturday August 21, 8 p.m. The last concert of the 59th season presents Anton Reicha's "Woodwind Quintet in C Minor, Op. 91, No. 6," composer-in-residence Jennifer Higdon' "Piano Trio," Jacques Ibert's "Trio for Violin, Cello, and Harp," and Beethoven's "String Quartet No. 7 in F Major, Op. 59, No. 1." Greenwall Auditorium of the Visual and Performing Arts Center on the Bennington College campus in North Bennington, Vermont. For driving directions, visit www.bennington.edu/main.htm and click on "directions." Free. |
