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April 2018
The Annual Region One Third Grade Concert
Bard College Conservatory of Music
Young musicians studying at the Bard College Conservatory of Music share their love of classical music with this year’s Region 1 third grade. All Welcome, Free.
June 2018
Benefit for the Hunt Library
Next Festival of Emerging Artists Orchestra
Featured guest soprano Tony Arnold and the Next Festival of Emerging Artists Orchestra under the direction of its Artistic Director Peter Askim play the music of living composers, including a World Premiere by Brett Dean. Free. Donations Welcome.
Shanghai String Quartet Beethoven Cycle Concert #1
89th Season Opening Benefit Concert & Reception
First of the Six-Concert Complete Beethoven String Quartet Cycle featuring the incomparable Shanghai String Quartet
String Quartet in E Flat Major, Op. 127 (1824-25)
String Quartet in G Major, Op. 18 #2 (1799)
String Quartet in C Major, Op. 59 #3 (1806)
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Charles Neidich and Verona Quartet in Concert
The Music Mountain Academy presents legendary clarinetist Charles Neidich playing the beloved Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, Op. 115 with the superb Verona String Quartet. All Welcome. Free
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Ted Nash Quartet: Music Mountain Jazz Opening Night
Two-Time Grammy Award Winner, Ted Nash is a vital part of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. Whether playing with Wynton Marsalis, his own big band, or various small groups, Nash expertly pushes artistic boundaries while staying true to the fundamentals of jazz. VIP Pass includes vinyl of latest album.
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Shanghai String Quartet Beethoven Cycle Concert #2
Second of the Six-Concert Complete Beethoven String Quartet Cycle featuring the incomparable Shanghai String Quartet
String Quartet in D Major, Op. 18 #3 (1798-99)
String Quartet in F Minor, Op. 95 “Serioso” (1810)
String Quartet in A Minor, Op. 132 (1825)
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New York Gilbert & Sullivan
I’ve got a little TWIST
“Well paced and extremely entertaining” (Talk Entertainment) I’ve Got a Little Twist is an award winning, NYGASP original production that highlights the timelessness of Gilbert & Sullivan and its relevance in today’s world. CONCERT & DINNER PACKAGE available, including 5 PM dinner at the Falls Village Inn, a Litchfield County landmark—Classic American comfort fare, seasonal—and 6:30 PM Twilight Concert at Music Mountain. Must be purchased by 3 PM on Friday prior to concert.
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Shanghai String Quartet Beethoven Cycle Concert #3
Third of the Six-Concert Complete Beethoven String Quartet Cycle featuring the incomparable Shanghai String Quartet
String Quartet in C Minor, Op. 18 #4 (1799)
String Quartet in F Major, Op. 18 #1 (1799)
String Quartet in C Sharp Minor, Op. 131 (1826)
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Michael Berkeley
No Tune Like A Show Tune: Celebrating America!
In honor of the 4th of July, join Michael Berkeley, Wanda Houston, Maria Hickey, Amy LeBlanc and Frank Fasano in a salute to the great Broadway and movie tunes celebrating the U.S.A.! CONCERT & DINNER PACKAGE available, including 5 PM dinner at the Falls Village Inn, a Litchfield County landmark—Classic American comfort fare, seasonal—and 6:30 PM Twilight Concert at Music Mountain. Must be purchased by 3 PM on Friday prior to concert.
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July 2018
Shanghai String Quartet Beethoven Cycle Concert #4
Fourth of the Six-Concert Complete Beethoven String Quartet Cycle featuring the incomparable Shanghai String Quartet
String Quartet in E Flat Major, Op. 74 “Harp” (1809)
String Quartet in A Major, Op. 18 #5 (1799)
String Quartet in E Minor, Op. 59 #2 (1806)
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Jive By Five
The sizzling dance music of the jazz age: from the Charleston to the Two-Step and the Fox Trot! Jive by Five plays a hard-swinging re-creation of the great jump band style of the 1940s that moved out of Harlem and Chicago’s south side to become part of mainstream jazz. CONCERT & DINNER PACKAGE available, including 5 PM dinner at the Falls Village Inn, a Litchfield County landmark—Classic American comfort fare, seasonal—and 6:30 PM Twilight Concert at Music Mountain. Must be purchased by 3 PM on Friday prior to concert.
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Shanghai String Quartet Beethoven Cycle Concert #5
Fifth of the Six-Concert Complete Beethoven String Quartet Cycle featuring the incomparable Shanghai String Quartet
String Quartet in B Flat Major, Op. 130 (1825)
String Quartet in F Major, Op. 59 #1 (1806)
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Helen Sung Quartet
Monk and More
Pianist Helen Sung’s music has been called “soulful,” “smart,” punctuated by irresistible grooves. She is a member of the Mingus Big Band and Thelonious Monk Band and recently joined the jazz faculty at Juilliard. CONCERT & DINNER PACKAGE available, including 5 PM dinner at the Falls Village Inn, a Litchfield County landmark—Classic American comfort fare, seasonal—and 6:30 PM Twilight Concert at Music Mountain. Must be purchased by 3 PM on Friday prior to concert.
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Escher String Quartet
2017 Van Cliburn Gold Medalist Yekwon Sunwoo, Piano
Webern: Langsamer Satz (1905)
Schubert: String Quartet in D Minor, D. 810 “Death and the Maiden” (1824)
Schumann: Piano Quintet in E Flat Major, Op. 44 (1842)
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Peter & Will Anderson Quartet
Duke Ellington
“Virtuosos on clarinet and saxophone” (New York Times), Peter and Will Anderson return with their Quartet, with piano and bass, for a Duke Ellington program! “These guys flood the room with joy” (Seattle Times). “You dudes are the future. You’ve made my soul smile!” (Quincy Jones). CONCERT & DINNER PACKAGE available, including 5 PM dinner at the Falls Village Inn, a Litchfield County landmark—Classic American comfort fare, seasonal—and 6:30 PM Twilight Concert at Music Mountain. The Concert & Dinner Package must be purchased by 3 PM on Friday prior to concert.
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Penderecki String Quartet
Victoria Schwartzman, Piano
Haydn: String Quartet in D Major, Op. 50 #6 “The Frog” (1787)
Grieg: String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 27 (1877)
Shostakovich: Piano Quintet in G Minor, Op. 57 (1940)
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Swingtime Big Band
Swingtime Big Band Big Band classics from the Great American Songbook!
Dedicated to the performance of America’s greatest popular standards, Swingtime Big Band is a 20-piece authentic swing band comprised of master interpreters of music from the Swing Era (mid-1930’s through early 1950’s). CONCERT & DINNER PACKAGE available, including 5 PM dinner at the Falls Village Inn, a Litchfield County landmark—Classic American comfort fare, seasonal—and 6:30 PM Twilight Concert at Music Mountain. The Concert & Dinner Package must be purchased by 3 PM on Friday prior to concert.
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Harlem String Quartet
Fei-Fei Dong, Piano
Beethoven: Piano Quartet #1 in E Flat Major, WoO 36 (1785)
Schubert: String Quartet in A Minor, Op. 29 #1, D. 804 “Rosamunde” (1824)
Brahms: Piano Quintet in F Minor, Op. 34 (1864)
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August 2018
Jimmy Greene Quartet
A native of Hartford, CT, Jimmy Greene is considered one of the most respected saxophonists of his generation. Jazzwise Magazine (UK) calls Greene “without doubt one of the most striking young tenors of recent years.” His GRAMMY® Nominated Beautiful Life album (Mack Avenue) has received high critical acclaim. CONCERT & DINNER PACKAGE available, including 5 PM dinner at the Falls Village Inn, a Litchfield County landmark—Classic American comfort fare, seasonal—and 6:30 PM Twilight Concert at Music Mountain. The Concert & Dinner Package must be purchased by 3 PM on Friday prior to concert.
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Avalon String Quartet
Soyeon Kate Lee, Piano
Beethoven: Piano Quartet #2 in D Major, WoO 36 (1785)
Mozart: String Quartet in D Major, K. 575 “Prussian” (1789)
Shostakovich: String Quartet #7 in F Sharp Minor, Op. 108 (1960)
Dohnanyi: Piano Quintet in C Minor, Op. 1 (1895)
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Galvanized Jazz Band
The “best Jazz Band in the State” (Connecticut Magazine) “gets your blood running” (Jazzbeat) with hot dixieland, New Orleans jazz, blues, rags, stomps, struts, spirituals, swing, and classic popular songs from the past century. CONCERT & DINNER PACKAGE available, including 5 PM dinner at the Falls Village Inn, a Litchfield County landmark—Classic American comfort fare, seasonal—and 6:30 PM Twilight Concert at Music Mountain. The Concert & Dinner Package must be purchased by 3 PM on Friday prior to concert.
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Amernet String Quartet
Vivek Kamath, Viola
Ronald Thomas, Cello
Schubert: Quartettsatz in C Minor, D. 703 (1820)
Schubert: String Quartet in E Flat Major, D. 87 (1813)
Richard Strauss: String Sextet from Capriccio Op. 85 (1940-41)
Tchaikovsky: String Sextet in D Minor, Op. 70 “Souvenir de Florence” (1890)
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Josh Lawrence & Color Theory
Trumpeter Josh Lawrence and Color Theory fuse the blues, Afro-Cuban music, and hiphop. Their award-winning 2017 release was inspired by Kandinsky’s first three Composition paintings which were destroyed during World War II. CONCERT & DINNER PACKAGE available, including 5 PM dinner at the Falls Village Inn, a Litchfield County landmark—Classic American comfort fare, seasonal—and 6:30 PM Twilight Concert at Music Mountain. The Concert & Dinner Package must be purchased by 3 PM on Friday prior to concert.
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St. Petersburg Piano Quartet
Beethoven: Violin & Piano Sonata #8 in G Major, Op. 30/3 (1801-1802)
Beethoven: Piano Quartet #3 in C Major, WoO 36 (1785)
Brahms: Piano Quartet in A Major, Op. 26 (1861)
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“Painting Music” at the Mountain
Cassatt String Quartet
Vincent Inconiglios, Artist
11:30 AM: Outdoors Family Event "Painting Music" at the Mountain, on the Music Mountain lawn
12:30 PM: Picnic
1 PM: Cassatt String Quartet World-Premieres Concert with Real-Time Painting by Vincent Inconiglios, at Gordon Hall
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Amina Figarova Quintet
Pianist Amina Figarova has been presented at Newport Jazz, New Orleans Jazz, and halls in Chicago, Detroit, Paris, Amsterdam and New York. Her original compositions draw from a rich background, which includes her native Azerbaijan, and jazz collaborations in Holland and the US. CONCERT & DINNER PACKAGE available, including 5 PM dinner at the Falls Village Inn, a Litchfield County landmark—Classic American comfort fare, seasonal—and 6:30 PM Twilight Concert at Music Mountain. The Concert & Dinner Package must be purchased by 3 PM on Friday prior to concert.
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Cassatt String Quartet
Paul Katz, Cello
Borodin: String Quartet #2 in D Major (1881)
Shostakovich: String Quartet #8, Op. 110 (1960)
Schubert: Cello Quintet in C Major, Op. 163, D. 956 (1828)
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September 2018
Gabriel Alegria Afro-Peruvian Sextet
This “dynamic ensemble explores the affinities between modern jazz and the AfroLatin continuum in Perú” (The New York Times). With Gabriel Alegria’s Afro-Peruvian Sextet “the visceral excitement is as palpable as the listener’s own racing heartbeat” (The Latin Jazz Network). CONCERT & DINNER PACKAGE available, including 5 PM dinner at the Falls Village Inn, a Litchfield County landmark—Classic American comfort fare, seasonal—and 6:30 PM Twilight Concert at Music Mountain. The Concert & Dinner Package must be purchased by 3 PM on Friday prior to concert.
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Peter Serkin
Labor Day Benefit Concert & Reception
Bach: Oboe Sonata in G Minor, BWV 1030b
Mozart: Quintet for Piano and Winds in E Flat Major, K. 452
Beethoven: Quintet for Piano and Winds in E Flat Major, Op. 16
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The Bridge Trio
The Bridge Trio continues the legacy of the incomparable Spirit found in their native New Orleans. Recent performances include The Kennedy Center and a feature in David Simon’s hit HBO Series “Treme”. CONCERT & DINNER PACKAGE available, including 5 PM dinner at the Falls Village Inn, a Litchfield County landmark—Classic American comfort fare, seasonal—and 6:30 PM Twilight Concert at Music Mountain. The Concert & Dinner Package must be purchased by 3 PM on Friday prior to concert.
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Shanghai String Quartet Beethoven Cycle Concert #6
Special Concert & Wine Reception to Celebrate the Completion of the Beethoven Cycle
Sixth of the Six-Concert Complete Beethoven String Quartet Cycle featuring the incomparable Shanghai String Quartet
String Quartet in B Flat Major, Op. 18 #6 (1800)
Grosse Fuge, Op. 133 (1826)
String Quartet in F Major, Op. 135 (1826)
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Roxy Coss Quintet
“Just like Coltrane, Coss achieves a perfect balance of lyricism and intensity in her improvisations through a superb sense of timing, rhythmic and harmonic structure” (All About Jazz). Originally from Seattle, Roxy Coss is now a fixture on the New York scene. CONCERT & DINNER PACKAGE available, including 5 PM dinner at the Falls Village Inn, a Litchfield County landmark—Classic American comfort fare, seasonal—and 6:30 PM Twilight Concert at Music Mountain. The Concert & Dinner Package must be purchased by 3 PM on Friday prior to concert.
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American String Quartet
Robert McDonald, Piano
Haydn: String Quartet in D Major, Op. 76 #5 (1796-97)
Shostakovich: String Quartet #3 in F Major, Op. 73 (1946)
Dvorak: Piano Quintet in A Major, Op. 81 (1887)
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Bert Seager & The Why Not
The Why Not is a chamber-jazz quartet featuring piano, clarinet, upright bass, and hand percussion. These instruments bring listeners into unexpected sonic landscapes mixing rhythms from diverse cultures. Pianist Bert Seager is on the jazz faculty at the New England Conservatory and was a three-time recipient of the prestigious MacDowell Colony fellowship. His compositions are filled with “effervescent optimism” (Cadence Magazine). CONCERT & DINNER PACKAGE available, including 5 PM dinner at the Falls Village Inn, a Litchfield County landmark—Classic American comfort fare, seasonal—and 6:30 PM Twilight Concert at Music Mountain. The Concert & Dinner Package must be purchased by 3 PM on Friday prior to concert.
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Ariel String Quartet
Oskar Espina-Ruiz, Clarinet
All-Mozart Program
String Quartet in B Flat Major, K. 589 “Prussian” (1790)
String Quartet in F Major, K. 590 “Prussian” (1790)
Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K. 581 (1789)
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