
In collaboration with Yellow Barn Music Festival of Putney VT, we jointly
celebrate forty years of chamber music in New England, with distinguished
string players from each organization filling our small stage and combining in
Mendelssohn’s glorious Octet Op.20, an amazing masterpiece written when he
was only sixteen which also celebrates the 200th anniversary of his birth, The
program opens with Schubert’s youthful Trio D.471, and concludes with the
beloved Quintet D.956 a work performed on Mohawk Trail Concerts’ very first
concert in 1969. We welcome the performers representing Yellow Barn, Anna
Elashvili, Arnaud Sussman, violin, Maria Lambros, viola, Claire Bryant, cello:
with Mohawk Trail Concerts players Peggy McAdams, Masako Yanagita, violin,
Nicholas Mann,viola, and newcomer, Pitnarry Shin, cello.
July
3/4
Mohawk
Trail Concerts salutes the Town of Amherst on its 250th anniversary with the
premiere performance of Music for a Midsummer Evening, a seven movement suite
by distinguished Amherst composer Robert Stern featuring UMass faculty members
Laura and Lynn Klock, horn and saxophone, and pianist Estela Olevsky.
Lynn Klock opens the program first playing with its pianist
–composer In the Ark pieces by Clifton J.Noble and later with Nadine Shank,
piano, performing On a Snowy Evening by Catherine McMichael, and Darius
Milhaud's playful Scaramouche Suite, as Jazz Duo pianist, Jerry Noble with Bob
Sparkman, clarinet, also entertains with American delights, some Favorites of
`Fats' Waller.
On Saturday, July 4, the program will be presented as
America's Birthday, Free Family Concert in shortened format without
intermission starting at 7 p.m. to allow time for proceeding to local
festivities and firework displays following the concert.
July 10/11
Baroque
concert, In Praise of Purcell. celebrates Henry Purcell's 350th anniversary.
Harpsichordist Gregory Hayes directs the program with Cantabile singers (Diana
Brewer, Doris Goldman, James Mead, David Olsson, Peter W. Shea) and a Baroque
ensemble, Lisa Rautenberg, viola; Michelle Liechti, violin; Barbara Wright,
viola; André O’Neill, cello; Jane Hershey, violone.
We also welcome the award winning baritone and Leverett MA native, David
McFerrin, now establishing an enviable reputation in Europe and across the USA
whose solos will include Fly swiftly ye hours, If music be the food of love,
When Myra Sings, Fair Cloe, and Fairest Isle.
The beautiful Chacony in g minor, and selections of choral and
instrumental theater music from The Fairy Queen, Abdelazar, The Indian Queen
and King Arthur will round out the program demonstrating the vast range of
delightful music Purcell wrote in his brief life. 1659-1695.

July 17/18
MTC's annual visit of `Bolcom & Morris', when William
Bolcom composer/pianist and Joan Morris mezzo-soprano bring their eagerly
anticipated treat of theatre and cabaret material to our Charlemont audience
will introduces as special guest the Peruvian composer, Gabriela Lena Frank
This year we are honored to present the premiere of Bill's new
`Mini Cabs' (twelve ingenious miniature cabaret songs inspired by words of the
late poet Arnold Weinstein), a wealth of wonderful WW II songs they have
recently recorded, and a group by John Corigliano: Marvelous
Invention,Dodecaphonia, End of the Line.
Brilliant pianist/composer, Gabriela Frank has written A Book of
Quipus comprising a vast amount of material exploring her Andean heritage,
characteristics of Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Chile, and she will be joined by
MTC’s own Argentina born Estela Olevsky and William Bolcom as they musically
traverse South America.

July 24/25
The final concert fittingly honors the long lived Franz Joseph Haydn,
1732-1809. Loved and respected by his contemporaries and musicians throughout
history we choose first a classic string quartet and end the concert and
season with his exhilarating `Gypsy Rondo' Piano Trio, Op.25. This last
concert of the anniversary season also salutes again the young genius
Mendelssohn adding a performance of his Piano Trio, Op.49.
We look forward to bringing our Fortieth
Anniversary Season to a wonderful audience.
Friday concerts are at 7:30 pm. Saturdays at 8:00 pm, (Saturday, July
4th only, will start at
7:00 pm).
Information and further details appear on this website,
www.mohawktrailconcerts.org
as soon as it is available.
Contact : the MTC office, 413 625-9511
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