2017-2018 SEASON
Voices from the Summer
Friday, September 15 at 7:00 pm
Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro
Saturday, September 16 at 7:30 pm
Unitarian Church of Montpelier, Montpelier
Sunday, September 17 at 4 pm
Warren United Church, Warren
The diverse program includes a selection of Schubert songs, Chansons de Don Quichotte by Jacques Ibert, Manuel de Falla’s Sietes Canciones Populares Españolas, a Bach duet from Cantata 78, and Luigi Dallapiccola’s Quattro Liriche di Antonio Machado. Rothenberg will be featured on Gershwin’s Three Preludes for solo piano and the program ends with a set of humorous American songs. Double bassist Evan Premo will join Rothenberg and Munn on the unusual double bass / bass singer Mozart concert aria Per questa bella mano. All will join together singing Schubert’s vocal quartet Des Tages Weihe.
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Friday, September 15 at 7:00 pm
Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro
Saturday, September 16 at 7:30 pm
Unitarian Church of Montpelier, Montpelier
Sunday, September 17 at 4 pm
Warren United Church, Warren
The diverse program includes a selection of Schubert songs, Chansons de Don Quichotte by Jacques Ibert, Manuel de Falla’s Sietes Canciones Populares Españolas, a Bach duet from Cantata 78, and Luigi Dallapiccola’s Quattro Liriche di Antonio Machado. Rothenberg will be featured on Gershwin’s Three Preludes for solo piano and the program ends with a set of humorous American songs. Double bassist Evan Premo will join Rothenberg and Munn on the unusual double bass / bass singer Mozart concert aria Per questa bella mano. All will join together singing Schubert’s vocal quartet Des Tages Weihe.
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Toward the Sea
Friday, December 1 at 7:30 pm
Unitarian Church of Montpelier, 130 Main Street Montpelier
Saturday, December 2 at 7:30 pm
Green Mountain Girls Farm, 923 Loop Road, Northfield
Farm Soup Supper at 5:30 pm
Sunday, December 3 at 4 pm
Warren United Church, Warren
Featuring Japanese composer Tōru Takemitsu's Toward the Sea, much of this program will include readings from Herman Melville's Moby Dick. Also on the program is the Vermont premiere of Evan Premo's Two Meditations on Poems of Mary Oliver for Double Bass and Harp.
Artists:
Catherine Gregory, flute
Mélanie Genin, harp
Evan Premo, double bass
Mary Bonhag, soprano
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Friday, December 1 at 7:30 pm
Unitarian Church of Montpelier, 130 Main Street Montpelier
Saturday, December 2 at 7:30 pm
Green Mountain Girls Farm, 923 Loop Road, Northfield
Farm Soup Supper at 5:30 pm
Sunday, December 3 at 4 pm
Warren United Church, Warren
Featuring Japanese composer Tōru Takemitsu's Toward the Sea, much of this program will include readings from Herman Melville's Moby Dick. Also on the program is the Vermont premiere of Evan Premo's Two Meditations on Poems of Mary Oliver for Double Bass and Harp.
Artists:
Catherine Gregory, flute
Mélanie Genin, harp
Evan Premo, double bass
Mary Bonhag, soprano
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Romantic Voices
Friday, February 2 at 7:30 pm
VPR's Studio One, 365 Troy Avenue Colchester
Saturday, February 3 at 7:30 pm
Unitarian Church of Montpelier, 130 Main Street Montpelier
Sunday, February 4 at 4 pm
Warren United Church, Warren
Scrag does Romantic music! Anchored by the soaring and passionate Mendelssohn Piano Trio no. 1, this program explores music from the 19th century Romantic era and also neo-romanticism as it was revived in the 20th century. Two pieces by Erich Korngold demonstrate his versatility as both a film and theater composer (the Suite for violin and piano was originally written for a production of Much Ado About Nothing) and also writing art song. This is music to warm your heart in a cold winter!
Artists:
Wei-Han Wu, piano
Emily Popham Gillins, violin
Evan Premo, double bass
Mary Bonhag, soprano
Program:
Felix Mendelssohn, Piano Trio no. 1 in d minor
Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Suite for violin and piano
Giovanni Bottesini, Tutto il mondo
Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Lieder
Schumann-Liszt, Widmung
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Art Song Recital
Friday, March 23 at 7:30 pm
Bethany Church, 115 Main Street, Montpelier
Sunday, March 25 at 4 pm
Warren United Church, Warren
Artists:
Mary Bonhag, soprano
Jeffrey Chapell, piano
Karen Kevra, flute
Program:
Barber Hermit Songs
Wolf Goethelieder
Debussy Fêtes galantes
Works by Bach and Schwanter
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Friday, March 23 at 7:30 pm
Bethany Church, 115 Main Street, Montpelier
Sunday, March 25 at 4 pm
Warren United Church, Warren
Artists:
Mary Bonhag, soprano
Jeffrey Chapell, piano
Karen Kevra, flute
Program:
Barber Hermit Songs
Wolf Goethelieder
Debussy Fêtes galantes
Works by Bach and Schwanter
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Trapeze
Friday, May 18, at 7:30 pm
Green Mountain Girls' Farm, 923 Loop Road, Northfield
Saturday, May 19, 7:30 pm
Unitarian Church of Montpelier, 130 Main Street, Montpelier
Sunday, May 20, 4 pm
Warren United Church, Warren
Join us for Sergei Prokofiev's evocative "Trapeze" Quintet. Originally composed in 1924 for a traveling Ballet troupe, this quintet explores characters and sounds from the circus. Reunited for the first time in 8 years, members of this group first played "Trapeze" together at Carnegie Hall and also at Skidmore College.
Artists:
Owen Dalby, violin
Meena Bhasin, viola
Evan Premo, double bass
Carol McGonnell, clarinet
James Smith, oboe
Mary Bonhag, soprano
Friday, May 18, at 7:30 pm
Green Mountain Girls' Farm, 923 Loop Road, Northfield
Saturday, May 19, 7:30 pm
Unitarian Church of Montpelier, 130 Main Street, Montpelier
Sunday, May 20, 4 pm
Warren United Church, Warren
Join us for Sergei Prokofiev's evocative "Trapeze" Quintet. Originally composed in 1924 for a traveling Ballet troupe, this quintet explores characters and sounds from the circus. Reunited for the first time in 8 years, members of this group first played "Trapeze" together at Carnegie Hall and also at Skidmore College.
Artists:
Owen Dalby, violin
Meena Bhasin, viola
Evan Premo, double bass
Carol McGonnell, clarinet
James Smith, oboe
Mary Bonhag, soprano