Daedalus String Quartet
Soyeon Lee, Piano (Naumburg Award Winner)
Beethoven: String Trio in G Major Opus 9 # 1 (1795-1797)
Mozart: Piano Quartet in G Minor,  K. 478 (1785)
Brahms: Piano Quartet in G Minor, Opus 25 (1861)

( Rescheduled from August 28, 2011)

The Daedalus String Quartet returns for an encore performance with Naumburg Award Winner, Soyeon Lee, piano. The quartet has performed in many of the world’s leading music venues in the US, Canada, and Washington D.C., as well as abroad in Amsterdam, Paris, and Japan.

Praised by The New York Times and Washington Post, Soyeon Lee has been joyously received by audiences and critics alike, performing as guest soloist with the London Symphony Orchestra and The Cleveland Orchestra, as well as recital appearances in New York City, Washington D.C., Madrid, and Seoul, Korea.

82nd Season Anniversary Celebration Concert & Reception
All Tickets: $75

Shanghai String Quartet	Haochen Zhang, Piano Van Cliburn Gold Medalist

Schubert: String Quartet in D Minor, D. 810 ‘Death and the Maiden’ (1824) (23)
Franck: Piano Quintet in F Minor (1878-1879) (38)

Shanghai String Quartet
All Beethoven
String Quartet in D Major Opus 18 # 3 (1798-1800)
String Quartet in F Major, Opus 18 # 1 (1798-1800)
String Quartet in C Major, Opus 59 # 3 (1806)

The Shanghai Quartet regularly tours the great music centers of North and South America, Asia, and Europe. They appear frequently at New York’s Carnegie Hall and their travels have taken them to London, Vienna, Prague and  Australia’s Sydney Opera House.

One of the works on tonight’s program, Opus 59 # 3, is a work first played at Music Mountain’s very first concert on August 22, 1930 by Music Mountain’s founding group, the Gordon String Quartet.

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Postponed due to weather. New Date:

Sunday, September 11, 3:00 p.m.

Because of the potential danger to audience and artists alike from Hurricane Irene, we have taken the extraordinary step of POSTPONING Sunday’s concert by the Daedalus String Quartet and Soyeon Lee to Sunday, September 11 at 3pm.

The program will be changed to present three piano quartets, including, of course, the Brahms Piano Quartet in G minor, Opus 25, as originally scheduled.

The delay in deciding on the final program is that Soyeon Lee is in Seoul and the Daedalus Quartet is in New York.

You may be interested to learn that in Music Mountain’s entire 82 years this will be the first concert delayed by weather.

I hope all will come to hear Soyeon, the 2010 Naumburg award winner, play with this brilliant quartet on September 11.

Regards,
Nick Gordon, President

Daedalus String Quartet
Soyeon Lee, Piano (Naumburg Award Winner)
Schubert: Quartetsatz in C Minor, D703 (1820)
Beethoven: String Quartet in F Major, Opus 59 # 1 (1806)
Brahms: Piano Quartet in G Minor, Opus 25 (1861)

The Daedalus String Quartet returns for an encore performance with Naumburg Award Winner, Soyeon Lee, piano. The quartet has performed in many of the world’s leading music venues in the US, Canada, and Washington D.C., as well as abroad in Amsterdam, Paris, and Japan.

Praised by The New York Times and Washington Post, Soyeon Lee has been joyously received by audiences and critics alike, performing as guest soloist with the London Symphony Orchestra and The Cleveland Orchestra, as well as recital appearances in New York City, Washington D.C., Madrid, and Seoul, Korea.

Because of the weather expected in the southern part of Connecticut, where Gunsmoke is based (Darien), Gunsmoke has decided to cancel their appearance at Music Mountain for tomorrow, Saturday, August 27, fearing, in particular, that the drive home might be extremely dangerous.
We will be calling ticket holders offering them vouchers for any regularly priced concert of their choice in 2011 or 2012.
We  will attempt to re- schedule Gunsmoke in 2012.
Thank you for your understanding. Please contact the box office with any questions or concerns.

** with Dancing**
Authentic Country & Western Multi-Award Winning Band

Music Mountain’s 1024 square foot dance floor will be hopping when Gunsmoke takes to the stage for a Saturday night of high-energy country and western music. The Fairfield County based band has been named “New York Band of the Year” six consecutive times and was just inducted into the Connecticut Country Music Association Hall of Fame. This audience favorite has opened for many country music superstars including Willie Nelson, Hank Williams Jr., and Alan Jackson.  If you love authentic country & western music you won’t be disappointed!

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Tempo del Fuoco
Nick Cutroneo, Guitar
Sarah Larsen, Violin
Piazzolla: L’Histoire du Tango
Wallace: El Primero
Schuttenhelm: “When the surface would suffice”
Riley: Cantos Desiertos
Pujol: Suite Buenos Aires

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Silent Movie Night with Live Music
All tickets: $18 at the door $15 in advance
Harold Lloyd: Grandma’s Boy (1922)
Buston Keaton: The High Sign (1921)

with live music by Donald Sosin, keyboard
and Joanna Seaton, voice & percussion

“The top-of-the-line of film pianists!” — Leonard Maltin, film critic, author, historian

“Donald Sosin eschewed a traditional score in favor of a mix of blues, boogie-woogie, stride and swing that perfectly matched the film’s jumping tempo and brought much of the crowd to its feet at the end.” — Michael Schlesinger, SONY Classics

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The Galvanized Jazz Band
** with Dancing**
A Music Mountain Regular. High energy renditions of New Orleans blues, stomps and spirituals.

The Galvanized will be joined by  guest trombonist Jerry Zigmont, Woody Allen’s trombonist.

Bob Price on banjo is back by popular demand, and  will play Rhapsody in Blue  – a number that brought down the house  last year.

Since 1971, The Galvanized Jazz Band has thrilled audiences of all ages, performing at jazz festivals from Maine to New Orleans and will be the final offering of our summer 2011 popular jazz series. One of New England’s most sought-after bands, The Galvanized Jazz Band is renowned for their high-energy renditions of New Orleans blues, stomps, Dixieland, and spirituals.  Bring your dancing shoes for the Saturday evening concert and find out why Connecticut Magazine named The Galvanized Jazz Band the “best jazz band in the state!”

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St. Petersburg String Quartet
Alexander Mekinulov, Piano
Brahms: Cello Sonata # 2 in F Major, Opus 99 (1886)
Shostakovich: String Quartet # 9 in E Flat Major, Opus 117 (1940)
Schnittke: Piano Quintet (1972-1976)

Considered by many to be one of the world’s most esteemed chamber ensembles, the St. Petersburg String Quartet was founded in 1985 and has steadily risen to fame performing all over the world and the US including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

A native of Leningrad, now once again St. Petersburg, Russia, Alexander Mekinulov won the First Prize in the All-Russian Chamber Music Competition. Since emigrating to the United States, he is currently a distinguished faculty member at the MILI (Music Institute of Long Island) and has extensively performed throughout the United States, Austria, Italy and Brazil with various soloists.

Voxare String Quartet
Eugenia Zukerman, Flute
Beethoven: String Quartet in C Minor, Opus 18 # 4 (1798-1800) (22)
Schubert: Violin Sonata in G Minor, D 408, Opus 137 # 3 (1816) (3)
Transcribed for Flute and String Trio by Robert Stallman (2002)
(Music Mountain Premiere)
Beethoven: String Quartet in B Flat Major with the Grosse Fuge, Opus 130 (1825) (9)
Post Concert Discussion: Schubert and the Flute

The acclaimed Voxare Quartet will present the Beethoven B Flat Major Quartet, Opus 130, in its original form with the enormously difficult Grosse Fuge, Opus 133, as the final movement rather than the one Beethoven was persuaded to substitute by his publisher. As far as Music Mountain records show, this is the first time that Music Mountain will offer this Quartet as it was originally conceived by Beethoven.

Guest artist, Eugenia Zukerman has been called one of the finest flutists of our time by the Boston Globe, She has performed throughout North America, Europe and Asia for over 25 years.

The Voxare, formed in 2008, has received considerable critical praise. For example, the New York Times declared that this Quartet “plays with such penetrating tone and lucid textures” that it has named the quartet the Classical Pick of the Week numerous times. (Visit their website!)