The Walden School Players
Walden’s “house band” of exceptional performers present an electric concert of contemporary music to kick off Festival Week. This year’s Players are Jane Cords O’Hara, cello; Jane Chung, violin; Russell Greenberg, percussion; Tawnya Popoff, viola; Jessi Rosinski, flutes; Christa Van Alstine, clarinets; and Aaron Wunsch, piano. Concert to feature works by composers George Lewis and David Ludwig, among others. Free and open to the public
George Lewis: Composer-in-Residence Presentation
George Lewis offers a program of his works and leads a discussion about his music with Young Musicians Program students, faculty, and audience members.
Duo Prism: Library Concert
Pianist Rieko Aizawa and violinist Jesse Mills in concert at the Keene Public Library. Free and open to the public
Duo Prism
Artistic directors of the Alpenglow Chamber Music Festival in Colorado performing
works for piano and violin.
Program:
Beethoven -- Sonata for Piano and Violin No. 1 in D major, Op. 12 No. 1
Allegro con brio
Tema con variazioni: Andante con moto
Rondo: Allegro
F. Poulenc -- Violin Sonata, Op. 119
Allegro con fuoco
Intermezzo: Très lent et calme
Presto tragico
*** Intemission***
Ned Rorem -- Selections from Night Music
Mosquitoes and Earthworms
Gnats
The Two Moths
E. Grieg -- Sonata No. 3 in c minor, Op. 45
Allegro molto ed Appassionato
Allegretto espressivo alla Romanza
Allegro animato
Aurora Nealand and The Royal Roses
Aurora Nealand and the Royal Roses
(Concert presented outdoors on Dublin School Campus, behind the Fountain Arts Building, weather permitting)
The Royal Roses are a New Orleans-based jazz band, led by vocalist and saxophonist Aurora Nealand, a former Young Musicians Program faculty member. Note: this concert will be held outside, weather permitting. Concert free and open to the public.
Michael Poll, Guitar
Mixed program of works for solo guitar performed by acclaimed young artist. Free and open to the public
James Mobberley: Composer-in-Residence Presentation
James Mobberley offers a program of his works and leads a discussion about his music with Creative Musicians Retreat participants, faculty, and audience members.
Wet Ink Ensemble
The Ensemble-in-Residence of the Creative Musicians Retreat delivers an eclectic program of contemporary music to kick off the Retreat. Free and open to the public
PRISM Saxophone Quartet - Multiple Minimal
Born in the early 1960s in the underground scene in San Francisco and New York, minimalism and its offshoots (post-minimalism, totalism) have become wildly popular forms of new classical music. The PRISM Quartet performs music by two of its originators and long-time champions, Terry Riley and Philip Glass, along with composers deeply influenced by their work, including John Adams, Michael Torke, and Samuel Phillips-Corwin, Walden alumnus and winner of the 2011 PRISM Quartet/Walden School Commissioning Award.
More information here.
PRISM Saxophone Quartet - Multiple Minimal
Born in the early 1960s in the underground scene in San Francisco and New York, minimalism and its offshoots (post-minimalism, totalism) have become wildly popular forms of new classical music. The PRISM Quartet performs music by two of its originators and long-time champions, Terry Riley and Philip Glass, along with composers deeply influenced by their work, including John Adams, Michael Torke, and Samuel Phillips-Corwin, Walden alumnus and winner of the 2011 PRISM Quartet/Walden School Commissioning Award.
