Classical
Clafin Hill Symphony - Silver Anniversary Triumph
Featuring The New World Chorale & Guest Soloists
Orff: Carmina Burana
And MORE!
Our long-time friends and collaborators from The New World Chorale return to help us celebrate our 25th Anniversary Year with a reprise of the VERY FIRST CHSO CONCERT! As the CHSO brings its season to a triumphant conclusion, we pay tribute to the first great cultural edifice in Milford –dating back to the first decades of the Twentieth Century when the first Italian immigrants came to our region to cut granite in the quarries and built a opera house on Main Street – a venue that hosted the likes of Enrico Caruso and Ezio Pinza! Performed in the original Italian with supertitle translations!
Boston Camerata -Trav'ling Home
Trav'ling Home:
American Spirituals, 1770-1870
The Boston Camerata’s pioneering programs of early American music have brought pleasure to thousands of music lovers, and have helped to clarify and define our country’s rich and diverse cultural identity. It traces migratory currents and flows of early American song, largely spiritual but also secular. Among the various communities participating in this rich American mosaic we encounter the Puritans of New England, the Shakers and their visionary monodies, Amish and Mennonites of Pennsylvania, and the newly-freed African-American religious communities. The musical sources of this program are drawn from European and New World oral traditions, hymns, psalms and chants in English, German dialects, early songbooks of Black churches, as well as gems from the still largely unpublished Shaker manuscript archive at Sabbathday Lake, ME.
Atlantic Symphony - Season Finale: Pops!
Season Finale: Pops!
ROGERS & HAMMERSTEIN Selections from The Sound of Music
WILLIAMS Selections from Star Wars Suite
MORRICONE “Gabriel’s Oboe” from The Mission
GRAINGER Danny Boy (Irish Tune from County Derry)
SIBERLIUS Finlandia
STRAUSS JR. Voices of Spring Waltz
STRAUSS SR Radetzsky March
ANDERSON First Day of Spring; Fiddle-Faddle
SOUSA The Stars and Stripes Forever
A spectacular evening of popular hits from Hollywood and Broadway, to celebrate our season, with our traditional “Stars and Stripes Forever” conducted by a member of the audience!
Merrimack Valley Phil - La Dolce Vita
Italian opera and orchestrations combine to make this enjoyable program come to life! Praised for her “rich and beautiful voice,” Erin M. Smith is a dynamic performer throughout New England. Joined by powerful tenor Yeghishe Manucharyan, a performer from the Metropolitan Opera, this magnificent duo performs the finale from Act 1 of La Boheme. The lovely O mio babbino caro by Erin follows our opening number, Oveture to Barbiere di Siviglia. Then Yeghishe wows us with Una furtiva lagrima by Donizetti. Our strings shine in Mendelssohn’s Italian Symphony, and our brass are highlighted in Tchaikovsky’s Capriccio Italien. Put up your feet and relax!
Musicians from Marlboro
“This was truly accomplished music-making. There are chamber groups of longtime standing that fail to come close to this ad-hoc group’s sense of shared purpose. Which suggests somebody in Marlboro is doing something right.” —The New York Times
In 2023, Marlboro Music welcomed Helmut Lachenmann as its Composer in Residence, a rare U.S. visit for this German composer who has shaped contemporary music worldwide. During his time in Vermont, Lachenmann worked closely with the musicians on Got Lost, a uniquely adventurous work for soprano and piano that challenges the physical and mental expectations of the performers. The program also features works by Haydn and Mozart, performed by Elias Quartet cellist Marie Bitlloch and three magnificent emerging string players.
The Musicians from Marlboro touring program was created as an extension of Vermont’s Marlboro Music Festival, founded in 1951. Musicians from Marlboro tours are noted not only for their joyous performances but also for offering valuable touring experience to artists at the beginning of their careers and touring with unusual chamber repertoire. Since their inception, the Musicians from Marlboro tours have introduced such great talents as Richard Goode, Yefim Bronfman, Jaime Laredo, Murray Perahia, Paula Robison, Sir András Schiff, Peter Serkin, Richard Stoltzman, and Benita Valente. They have also featured other exceptional artists now heard in the Emerson, Juilliard, Takács, and Dover Quartets and Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio. In the words of the Washington Post, “Musicians from Marlboro is a virtual guarantee of musical excellence!”