HARRISON – The Sebago-Long Lake Music Festival will present the second chamber music concert of the 34th season Tuesday, July 18, at Deertrees Theatre.
Billed as “Contrasts,” the 8 p.m. program features music for diverse groups of instruments from four centuries.
The concert opens with the B Minor “Orchestral Suite” by Bach, a work from the 18th century and the height of the Baroque period. Performing will be New York flutist Susan Rotholz, supported by the strings and “continuo” – Eliot Bailen, cello; Anthony D’Amico, bass; and Peter Sykes, well-known Boston harpsichordist.
Leaping to the 21st century, the concert continues with a 2001 work by Osvaldo Golijov, “Lullaby and Doina,” scored for flute, clarinet and strings.
Hungarian composer Bela Bartok’s “Contrasts” was written in 1936 at the request of jazz clarinetist Benny Goodman. The name actually comes from Bartok’s intent to show the differences of the three instruments – clarinet, violin and piano – played in this concert by Carmelo Galante, Varty Manouelian and Yuri Funahashi.
Schumann’s Quintet for Piano and Strings, a romantic 19th century masterpiece, rounds out the program. Performers will be pianist Yuri Funahashi, violinists Movses Pogossian and Paul Wolfe, and cellist, Jonathan Golove.
Tickets are $20 for individual series concerts. Student tickets are $10 per series concert.
Tickets are available by mail at Sebago-Long Lake Music Festival, P.O. Box 544 Harrison, ME 04040; online at www. sebagomusicfestival.org; by calling 583-6747; and at the Bridgton Public Library and Bridgton Books.
For more information, go online to www.sebagomusic-festival.org.
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