SummerFest22 June 26 – July 10, 2022
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Five Concerts released over two weeks to a single playlist to create a virtual Festival! Watch this page as we unveil detailed programs. Each will premier separately but available on same playlist OnDemand throughout the Fest once premiered.
“Piano Duos & Trios” Premier 7:00 on June 26th
”Fusion: Eclectic Works” Premier 7:45 on June 26th
“New Works for Period Instruments” Premier 7:30 on June 29th
“Americana” Premier 7:00 on July 3rd
”Bach Again!” Premier 7:30 on July 6th
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Piano Duos & Trios
Each of the pieces in this program are piano plus one, except for the centerpiece, Delirious Phenomena where all the ensemblists perform inside of the same piano.
The music on the program ranges from romantic, through impressionist, contemporary and new, as well as diverse genres, instruments, and ethnicity, and temperament.
Each of these pieces is from Musicasts premiered by Musicivic during the past several months.
Enjoy!
Three Romances for oboe and piano (1849)
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Performed by Bell’Art Ensemble
Fêtes galantes, premier livre
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
En Sourdine
Fantoches
Clair de lune
Performed by Reames/Penna Duo
Delirious Phenomena
Alyssa Weinberg
Performed by Pathos Trio
Serenade
Natan Shulman
Performed by the Russian Duo
Bolero
Natan Shulman
Performed by the Russian Duo
Performances by:
Bell’Art Ensemble
Reames/Penna Duo
Pathos Trio
Russian Duo
Fusion: Eclectic Works
Each of the pieces in this program explore unexpected connections, juxtapositions and/or interpretations. Montsalvage, a Spanish composer explores Antillean culture and music (Caribbean). Schubert’s piece for Piano and Baritone is here explored on Piano and Balalaika. Again, the Balalaika is used to perform French composer, Dyens expression of the Argentinian Tango. Fiction of light plays on the juxtaposition of light as wave and particle and plays with electronic speakers and other devices as producers of meta sound. Finally, Alkemie reimagines medieval text and melody through an eclectic mix of modern, electronic and period instruments.
Each is unexpected and exploratory in its own way.
Canción de cuna para dormir a un negrito (1945)
Xavier Montsalvatge (1912-2002)
Performed by Bell’Art Ensemble
Ständchen (Serenade)
Franz Schubert
Performed by the Russian Duo
Sky Tango
Roland Dyens
Performed by the Russian Duo
fiction of light
Evan Chapman
Performed by Pathos Trio
O viridissima virga
Riesencodex, arr. Jim Hopkins
Performed by Alkemie
Performances by:
Bell’Art Ensemble
Russian Duo
Pathos Trio
Alkemie
New Works for Period Instruments
Each of these works were composed recently with period instruments in mind. Period instruments (particularly gut string based) have a warm, intimate responsive feel, and a distinctive character both bowed and plucked. Rebecca Nelson and Elliot Figg are performing their own works, while the Côté and Shaw pieces were commissioned.
Nuit Sur La Corde À Linge (2021)
Mathilde Côté
Performed By Quartet Salonnières
Consolations I-IX
Rebecca Nelson
Performed by Rebecca Nelson, violins
“Meditation”
Graham Elliot Figg (b. 1979)
Performed by Majka Demcak (Baroque Violin) & Elliot Figg (Harpsichord)
Seven
Caroline Shaw
Performed by the Cramer Quartet
Performances by:
Quartet Salonnières
Rebecca Nelson
Majka Demcak & Elliot Figg
Cramer Quartet
Americana
In celebration of Independence Day we are presenting a set of works by American composers spanning jazz, classical and folk traditions.
Program starts with a Jazz standard performed by Charles Salinger Trio. The Heritage Trio can be thought of as a classical formulation of not only Jazz work, but transcription of actual chord and riff formations by Jazz greats, beginning with Buddy Franco. Valerie Coleman’s wind quintet, Red Clay and Mississippi Delta is so evocative of music and life from the Deep South.
We then transition to a beautiful classical mid-century work by black composer William Grant Still. William Grant Still Jr. was an American composer of nearly two hundred works, including five symphonies, four ballets, nine operas, over thirty choral works, plus art songs, chamber music and works for solo instruments. He was the first African-American composer to have a symphony performed by a professional orchestra in the U.S.
We finish the “Americana” concert with folk selections reflecting Country, Appalachian and other folk/roots influences.
Sweet Georgia Brown
Ben Bernie + Maceo Pinkard
Performed by Charles Salinger Trio
Heritage Trio
David N. Baker (1931-2016)
I. Buddy and Beyond
Performed by Cool Trio
Red Clay and Mississippi Delta
Valerie Coleman (b. 1970)
Performed by ConnectFive
Mother and Child, for violin and piano (1943)
William Grant Still (1895-1978)
Performed by Bell’Art Ensemble
Why Don’t You Love Me
Hank Williams
Performed by Deep Roots Ensemble
The Riddle Song & The Cuckoo
Appalachian Traditional
Performed by Ackley Duo
Wayfaring Stranger
American Hymn
Performed by Chivalrous Crickets
Performances by:
Charles Salinger Trio
Cool Trio
ConnectFive
Bell’Art Ensemble
Deep Roots Ensemble
Ackley Duo
Chivalrous Crickets
Bach Again! Inner Movements
Our BachFest in September, 2020 featured five whole concerts of a wide range of Bach works. Again, in Early Music Fest, September, 2022 we featured one concert of Bach. So by picking up a Bach themed concert here as part of SummerFest22 we are running a little bit early in schedule.
The curation is unusual, after a prelude (BWV 999) performed by Itzkoff, we select inner movements from three Sonatas. The C minor Sonata for Violin & Obligato Harpsichord performed by Demcak and Figg, The C Major Sonata for Solo Violin by Natalie Kress, and the G Major Sonata for Violin & Obligato Harpsichord again by Demcak and Figg all incorporate significant, innovative compositions by Bach.
By focusing on inner movements we are recognizing that this summer is a tentative time for us, unresolved Pandemic, unresolved War, an unresolved economy. Yet in the midst we search for beauty and hope.
Prelude, BWV 999
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Arranged and performed by Coleman Itzkoff
Sonata in C minor for Violin and Obbligato Harpsichord, BWV 1017
J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
II. Allegro
III. Adagio
Performed by Majka Demcak (Baroque Violin) & Elliot Figg (Harpsichord)
Solo Violin Sonata in C Major, BWV 1005 (1720)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
II. Fuga
III. Largo
Performed by Natalie Kress
Sonata in G major for Violin and Obbligato Harpsichord, BWV 1019
J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
II. Largo
III. Allegro – cembalo solo
IV. Adagio
Performed by Majka Demcak (Baroque Violin) & Elliot Figg (Harpsichord)
Performances By:
Coleman Itzkoff
Natalie Kress
Majka Demcak (Baroque Violin) & Elliot Figg (Harpsichord)