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