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TODD CROW, Music Director
~ 48th Anniversary Season ~
2011
A SERIES OF 5 CONCERTS
Tuesday evenings at 8:15 p.m.
July 19, 26, August 2, 9, 16
At the Neighborhood House on Main Street in
Northeast Harbor, Maine
The Mt. Desert Festival of
Chamber Music takes pleasure in announcing its 48th anniversary season of summer
concerts at the historic Neighborhood House in Northeast Harbor, Maine. Four prominent string quartets
will be performing at the festival. The following are some highlights of the season:
The
Daedalus Quartet returns to
open the series on July 19th with a program to include the dramatic "Kreutzer
Sonata" quartet by Czech composer Leoš Janáček, as well as Fauré's beloved C minor Piano Quartet with pianist/music director
Todd Crow.
On July 26th, the Borromeo String Quartet will
present an all-Bach first half including new arrangements for string quartet of
two of the master's most famous organ works, the St. Anne Fugue and Passacaglia
and Fugue in C minor.
The August 2nd program will feature the return of the celebrated soprano
Dominique Labelle performing
Shostakovich's powerful Seven Romances on poems of Alexander Blok. Other guest
artists include violinist Stephanie Chase,
violists Dov Scheindlin
and Daniel Panner, cellist Mark Shuman,
and bassist David Grossman.
On August 9th, the
Shanghai Quartet performs
works of Turina, Brahms, and Schumann, and the season closes on August 16th with
the Miró Quartet in their first appearance at the festival in a program to
include Shostakovich's Piano Quintet with Todd Crow and Dvořák's A-flat
major quartet.
Other composers to be heard this summer are Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn,
and Debussy.
The festival aims to present chamber
music at its best in an intimate setting. Much of the aura,
which is both informal and serious, is due to the ambiance of the Neighborhood
House, whose fine acoustics and old world charm add much to the intimacy of
communication upon which chamber music thrives.
MATTHEW RAIMONDI, FOUNDER ~ NATALIE RAIMONDI, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
MARGO BAILEY, ASSOCIATE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
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