New Hampshire Music Festival
D O N ATO C A B R E R A , M U S I C D I R E C TO R
62 Years of Music in the New Hampshire Lakes Region
American Landscapes 63rd Season
July 7-August 6, 2015
Dear friends, AMERICAN LANDSCAPES, the theme of the NEW HAMPSHIRE MUSIC FESTIVAL’S 63RD SEASON, will explore and celebrate American music and the great outdoors. You’ll experience the complete range of orchestral grandeur, from the thrilling FOUR SEASONS BY VIVALDI to the groundbreaking music of NICO MUHLY, a New England native and the focus of this summer’s Composer Portrait Series. Principal Guest Conductor Dan Perkins opens the season with an exciting concert of American music and ends the season conducting the NHMF Orchestra and Chorus in Vaughan William’s DONA NOBIS PACEM. This moving work, a musical plea for peace, as well as Muhly’s Pleasure Ground, will honor the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War as part of our American Landscapes theme. I’m also proud to announce we’ve been awarded a grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities as part of the “Music Unwound” consortium. The grant supports our presentation of the acclaimed DVOŘÁK IN AMERICA program, including a performance of Dvořák’s stirring Symphony No. 9, “From the New World,” complemented by multimedia and narration by scholar-writer Joseph Horowitz. New this year will be a live orchestra concert with film, OZ WITH ORCHESTRA, at the Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion at Meadowbrook. We’re also enhancing our season offerings with collaborative education and outreach events: FAMILIES MAKING MUSIC programs with students, children and parents; MUSIC IN THE MOUNTAINS, featuring sunrise, sunset and campground concerts; music in area bars and cafés; and related art showings. Join us for a summer of great music and more!
Donato Cabrera NHMF Music Director
Cover art by Maryellen Sakura, NHMF Artist Contest First Place Winner All programs and artists subject to change. PAGE 1
“The music is terrific— The musicianship is world-class, and we always leave feeling we’ve had a peak experience of life.” ~NHMF patron
Join Music Director Donato Cabrera and other presenters at 7 PM (Silver Center Recital Hall) prior to Thursday concerts for CLASSICAL CONVERSATIONS, our free lecture and discussion series.
Photos: Kristen Loken and Nina Weinstein
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OPENING NIGHT: AMERICAN LANDSCAPES
THURSDAY, JULY 9 at 8 PM
Silver Center for the Arts Hanaway Theatre Festival Orchestra; Dan Perkins, conductor STOOKEY GROFÉ BARBER BERNSTEIN
DAN PERKINS
Big Bang Grand Canyon Suite School for Scandal Overture Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
Our opening orchestra concert personifies the symbolic works of four 20thand 21st-century American composers: Ferde Grofé, Samuel Barber, Leonard Bernstein, and Nathaniel Stookey, the focus of NHMF’s Composer Portrait last summer. We launch the evening with Stookey’s whimsical fanfare, Big Bang, meet in the middle with Grofé’s and Barber’s nationalism, and end on the streets of New York with Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story.
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DVOŘÁK IN AMERICA THURSDAY, JULY 16 at 8 PM
Silver Center for the Arts, Hanaway Theatre Festival Orchestra; Donato Cabrera, music director HOROWITZ Dvořák in America with multimedia & narration by Joseph Horowitz Kevin Deas, bass-baritone HERBERT Cello Concerto Walter Gray, cello DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 9, “From the New World”
KEVIN DEAS
We continue our celebration of America in this concert featuring a special multimedia presentation on Antonín Dvořák, arranged by former New York Times music critic and historian Joseph Horowitz. Attend the marriage of Hiawatha to hear the sonorous words of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and experience the New World Symphony conducted by Donato Cabrera. Also on the program is Irish-American cellist/composer Victor Herbert’s Cello WALTER GRAY Concerto, played by NHMF’s principal cellist, Walter Gray. Herbert was a colleague of Dvořák’s, and some speculate the premiere of Herbert’s concerto inspired Dvořák to write his own.
Sketch of Dvořák by Kristina Handler, violinist in the NHMF Orchestra
THIS PROGRAM IS PARTLY SUPPORTED BY A GRANT FROM THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT OF THE HUMANITIES AS PART OF THE "MUSIC UNWOUND" CONSORTIUM
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THE FOUR SEASONS
THURSDAY, JULY 23 at 8 PM
Silver Center for the Arts, Hanaway Theatre Festival Orchestra Donato Cabrera, music director GLASS SCHUBERT VIVALDI
Company for String Orchestra Symphony No. 3 in D Major The Four Seasons Charles Dimmick, violin
CHARLES DIMMICK
Samuel Beckett’s 1979 novella, Company, tells stories of the past, present and future from an ominous voice in a kind of dream-sequence. This aesthetic, appealing to composer Philip Glass, became the inspiration for his 1983 composition of the same name. This work is accompanied by Schubert’s charming Symphony No. 3 and a special performance of Vivaldi’s iconic musical landscape, The Four Seasons, featuring our own Charles Dimmick.
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COMPOSER PORTRAIT: NICO MUHLY THURSDAY, JULY 30 at 8 PM
Silver Center for the Arts, Hanaway Theatre Festival Orchestra Donato Cabrera, music director MUHLY MUHLY BRAHMS
So To Speak Pleasure Ground Nathan Wyatt, baritone Symphony No. 2
“Some people are getting rather over-excited about Nico Muhly. They are right to do so.” ~The Wire
NATHAN WYATT
Our 2015 COMPOSER PORTRAIT features Nico Muhly, the Metropolitan Opera’s most recent commissioned composer, set to produce an opera premiering during the 2019-20 season. This summer, catch the northeast premiere of Muhly’s Pleasure Ground, a work for baritone and orchestra that pays homage to Frederick Law Olmstead, landscape architect of New York City’s Central Park. The evening closes with Brahms’ melodic Symphony No. 2, which he wrote while living lakeside in Austria. PAGE 6
Photo: Stuart Murtland
SEASON FINALE: DONA NOBIS PACEM THURSDAY, AUGUST 6 at 8 PM
TAMI PETTY
Festival Orchestra and Chorus Donato Cabrera, music director Dan Perkins, principal guest conductor/director of choral activities MASON BATES Devil’s Radio TCHAIKOVSKY Meditation and Melodie from Souvenir d’un lieu cher SARASATE Romanza andaluza Zigeunerweisen Yulia Iglinova Milstein, violin VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Dona nobis pacem Tami Petty, soprano Paul Max Tipton, baritone For our season finale, we present a work that will bring singers from across New England to Plymouth. Commissioned to mark the centenary for the Huddersfield Choral Society, Ralph Vaughan Williams set his cantata, Dona nobis pacem, to text from the Catholic Mass, three Walt Whitman poems and the Bible as a plea for peace in times of war. You’ll also enjoy solo violinist Yulia Iglinova Milstein in multiple works for violin and orchestra.
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PAUL MAX TIPTON
YULIA IGLINOVA MILSTEIN
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Tuesday Chamber Music Series Silver Center for the Arts, Smith Recital Hall TUESDAYS at 8 PM JULY 7, 14, 21, 28 & AUGUST 4
Join our Festival musicians on Tuesday evenings in the acoustic gem of the Smith Recital Hall for the wildly popular chamber music series. Explore and enjoy the world of the sonata, trio, and quartet, as our world-class musicians perform these masterpieces-in-miniature. These eclectic concerts cover the entire gamut—from the Baroque era to works recently written by Nico Muhly.
“Challenging programs, skillfully performed, in an intimate setting.” “My life is enriched by the performances of the musicians of the NHMF. I am always learning something new!” ~NHMF patrons
Attend all 5 chamber concerts for only $100!
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Catch the original 1939 Wizard of Oz film on the big screen backed by the live NHMF Orchestra! Follow the yellow brick road to the Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord where the NHMF Orchestra will be playing live with the 1939 classic, The Wizard of Oz. Imagine seeing Munchkinland, the Emerald City, and the twister on a big screen with live musicians playing the classic movie music in the background. Come dressed as your best Dorothy clad in ruby red slippers, covered in straw as the Scarecrow, or as the green-faced Wicked Witch of the West. Fun for the whole family!
OZ WITH ORCHESTRA SUNDAY, JULY 26 at 7 PM Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord New Hampshire Music Festival Orchestra Dan Perkins, conductor
Tickets: Capitol Center for the Arts (603) 225-1111 • www.ccanh.com
The Sounds of Summer
Photo: Maundy Mitchell Photography
MUSIC IN THE MOUNTAINS Our new Music in the Mountains Series has been inspired by the “Hut Concerts” of the 1970’s era NHMF. Sunrise and Sunset Concerts in the mountains and lakes region will be announced throughout the summer. We’ll also offer Campground Concerts in collaboration with the White Mountains Interpretive Association. • Russell Pond Campground—July 18, 7:30 PM • Chocorua Island Chapel Service—August 2, 10:30 AM For details on these and other free community events, visit www.nhmf.org.
...AND MORE Other festival events will include Late Nights at the Coffee Shop, Beethoven on Tap at Biederman’s with a beer tasting, food and intimate chamber music, and a Sunday Jazz Brunch. We are pleased to partner with the NH Chapter of the Women’s Caucus for Art as they present their national juried exhibition, Force of Nature: Exploring the Power of the Feminine, in the Karl Drerup Art Gallery and Silver Center for the Arts this summer. Force of Nature: Exploring the Power of the Feminine—July 25, 8 PM Chamber concert with poetry and art, $25
Made possible with the support of the Lincoln Financial Foundation
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Family & Education Programs The New Hampshire Music Festival is proud to support music education in our state through our partnership with the Arts Alliance of Northern New Hampshire and supported in part by the Lincoln Financial Foundation, Cogswell Benevolent Trust, New Hampshire Electric Co-op and New Hampshire State Council on the Arts.
FAMILIES MAKING MUSIC The Families Making Music Series is a new set of interactive and student oriented experiences offered around concert events during the season. Before our season, the Side-by-Side Band Program will take place at Campton Elementary School featuring Festival bassoonist Margaret Phillips in a commissioned work by Plymouth State University student Kyle Quirion. This piece for middle school band and professional bassoon/contrabassoon will be premiered at the school’s end of the year concert. Oz with Orchestra at the Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion at Meadowbrook on July 27 will involve activities for families. • • • • •
Side-by-Side Band Program, June 3 Musical Crafts at Pease Public Library, July 15 Dvořák and the Orchestra, July 16 Stories and Songs at Pease Public Library, July 22 Oz with Orchestra at Meadowbrook, July 27
More details on our family activities can be found at www.nhmf.org. New Hampshire Music Festival is supported in part by a grant from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts & the National Endowment for the Arts
Photo: Nina Weinstein
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SUPPORT THE NEW HAMPSHIRE MUSIC FESTIVAL Donations to the New Hampshire Music Festival are essential to our future. Ticket sales only cover about 20% of the cost of bringing the wonderful music that we all enjoy so much! The New Hampshire Music Festival is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, and as such all donations to the Festival are tax deductible. For more information about how you can support the festival, please contact Executive Director Deb Kosits (deb@nhmf.org) at 603.238.9007.
GIVING LEVELS
FRIEND — under $100 DONOR — $100-$249 SPONSOR — $250-$499 PATRON — $500-$999 CHAIRMAN’S CIRCLE — $1,000-$2,499 CONDUCTOR’S CIRCLE — $2,500-$4,999 ORCHESTRA CIRCLE — $5,000-$9,999 BENEFACTOR — $10,000+
MUSICIAN SPONSORSHIP
Principal Chair Sponsor — $5,000 (you select which orchestra chair to sponsor)
Assistant Concertmaster — $5,000 Choral Director and Principal Guest Conductor — $8,000 Concertmaster — $10,000 Conductor — $25,000
Donate online at nhmf.org or send a check to NHMF, 7 Main St., Plymouth, NH 03264.
OTHER WAYS TO SUPPORT NHMF
• Donate stock—We can tell you our routing number to facilitate a transfer. • Make a gift—For a restricted purpose, or in honor or in memory. • Consider us in your Planned Giving—Contact the office for info. • Make monthly or quarterly contributions—Charged to your credit card. • Make an annual or multi-year pledge—Feel free! • Set up an annuity—For you to receive lifetime income and NHMF to receive the principal later. • Donate in-kind goods or services—Tell us your ideas. • Have your company match your gift—Ask them. • Make a donation before year-end to use as a tax deduction • Volunteer!—Get involved: HOST EVENTS of any kind (small parties, picnics, outings, concerts, trips, tours); SHARE YOUR SKILLS (publicity, graphic design, grants, photography); HELP WITH OPERATIONS (office work, airport pickups, car/housing for guest artists); USE THE PHONE to sell tickets and request email addresses; BE A CONCERT GREETER; HELP US BUILD A FESTIVAL FRIENDS VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATION.
Please contact us at 603.238.9007 if you’d like to get involved! Your philanthropic support is critical to our festival’s impact in the community. Please consider making a tax-deductible gift to the NHMF’s Annual Fund.
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FOR TICKETS
Season tickets and single tickets can be purchased online at www.nhmf.org or by calling or visiting the Silver Center Box Office.
Silver Center for the Arts 114 Main Street, Plymouth, NH
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