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18 - ARTS IN THE PARK • SUMMER/FALL 2022

Lake Placid Sinfonietta offers wide array of events all summer

The Lake Placid Sinfonietta returns in 2022 to present The Sounds of Summer from July 6 through Aug. 14. The orchestra will perform in a variety of settings, and concerts will vary from traditional classical to light pops programming.

“This will be an extremely varied, entertaining and inspiring program which combines standard repertoire like Elgar’s Enigma Variations and Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony with less familiar new masterworks by living composers,” Music Director Stuart Malina said.

Six Symphony Series concerts at will be held at the Lake Placid Center for the Arts theater and will feature exciting guest artists as well as both in-person and virtual ticketing options. Six outdoor Park Series concerts are scheduled as are concerts at the Tannery Pond Center in North Creek, The Wild Center in Tupper Lake and at the Hotel Saranac in Saranac Lake. A free morning children’s concert will also be held, with the date and location announced on the website. COVID related concert attendance protocols for

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Tuesdays | 7pm-9pm | Mid’s Park | Lake Placid Free Concerts with diverse music from Folk to Funk

6/28: Americana Night with Midnight North 7/5: Acoustic Jam Night with Orebolo 7/12: Chilean Pop Night with Pascuala Ilabaca & Fauna 7/19: Folk Rock Night with Brett Dennen Trio 7/26: Electric Blues Night with Shemekia Copeland 8/2: Indie Rock Night with Stephen Clair 8/9: Zydeco Night with Terence Simien

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summer 2022 will be posted on the Lake Placid Sinfonietta website during the first week of June.

The Symphony Series at the LPCA will feature both in-person and live-streamed ticketing. Series tickets for all six concerts are available through June 30, with a guarantee of the same seating at each concert. All tickets to this series are sold through the LPCA box office which can be reached at 518-523-2512, or through the LPCA website, www.LakePlacidArts.org. Links to online ticket sales will also be available on the orchestra’s website, www.LakePlacidSinfonietta.org. Each concert will be approximately one hour without intermission and will be followed by a complementary meet-the-artist outdoor reception under the box-office portico.

The Symphony Series starts on July 10 with the return of Dallas Symphony concertmaster Alexander Kerr performing Jonathan Leshnoff’s Chamber Concerto followed by a collaboration with Sinfonietta concertmaster Daniel Szasz for the mighty Bach Double.

On July 17, pianist Sara Davis Buechner takes the stage to offer Mendelssohn’s Second Piano Concerto in a program that will include a prizewinning work by Gwyneth Walker previously commissioned by the Lake Placid Sinfonietta.

The third concert in the series, Masters’ Trio Supreme on July 23 will include Beethoven’s Pastoral, Rossini’s Scala di Seta and Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll. (While this concert series has traditionally been on Sunday evenings, the July 23 concert was moved to Saturday to accommodate traffic challenges posed by the Ironman Triathlon race on July 24.)

On July 31, the Sinfonietta is pleased to present a concert of all American Music sponsored by the Victor Herbert Foundation. This concert will include Sinfonietta concertmaster Daniel Szasz as soloist in O Magnum Mysterium by Morton Lauridsen, Strum by Jessie Montgomery, and a presentation of Voices from the Gallery by Stephen Paulus with Leigh Barrett narrating.

A second Guest pianist, Jeffrey Biegel, joins the orchestra on Aug. 7th for Saint Saens’ Piano Concerto No. 2 in a concert that ends with Elgar’s Enigma Variations. For the last concert in this series, the Sinfonietta is partnering with the Adirondack Sky Center in Tupper Lake for a multi-media presentation of Holst’s The Planets paired with the world premiere of a new piece by Sinfonietta trumpeter, Steven Franklin. Complete details about each of these programs will be posted on the Sinfonietta website.

The six free Wednesday evening Park Series concerts will return to Mid’s Park in downtown Lake Placid on July 6 at 7 p.m. with St. Agnes Church as a rainsite. Concert dates this year are: July 6, “American Patriot,” July 13 “Dance Music,” July 20 “Travelogue,” July 27 “Music of Theater,” Aug. 3 “Folksy Music,” and Aug. 10 “Orchestra Dazzlers sponsored by NBT Bank.” Limited seating is available, so concertgoers are encouraged to bring a blanket or light lawn chair to sit on. If it rains on the night of a concert, or the temperature is likely to dip below 65 during the concert, the performance will be held in at St. Agnes Church on Saranac Ave., a short walk from the park. This rain site venue has a large parking lot, ample seating and great acoustics. If a move to the rain site occurs, the concert will begin at 7:15 p.m. rather than 7 p.m.

In addition to these concerts in Lake Placid, the orchestra will perform in Tupper Lake at The Wild Center on July 14, at the Tannery Pond Community Center in North Creek on July 21, and Free Community Concert sponsored by Adirondack Health at the Hotel Saranac in Saranac Lake on July 28. For tickets to the concerts in North Creek and Tupper Lake, please contact those venues.

For those reading who are unfamiliar with this musical gem of the Adirondacks, the Lake Placid Sinfonietta is a fully professional chamber orchestra of twenty musicians who are some of the top players from larger orchestras across the country. Aside from a break in 2020 for the pandemic and in 1945 for World War II, the orchestra has performed every summer since 1917, making music a part of summer in the Adirondacks for residents and visitors alike. Information can be found on the website www.LakePlacidSinfonietta.org and updates on programs will also be posted on the orchestra’s Facebook page, @OfficialLPSinfonietta.

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