Week One
FREE OUTDOOR CONCERT - A YEAR IN A DAY
Wednesday, July 23, 6:30 pm
Bridgehampton Historical Society
Bring your friends, family and a picnic as we kick off our 25th Anniversary Season with a concert for all seasons. This tour of the calendar year includes selections from Vivaldi’s popular cycle The Four Seasons, plus his concerto celebrating a goldfinch (Il Gardellino), here played on its own turf—outdoors. Spring and Autumn arrive via Astor Piazzolla, whose Four Seasons of Buenos Aires are infused with the sensual inflections of tango. In case of rain, the concert will take place at the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church.
Program
VIVALDI
Flute Concerto in D Major, RV 428, Il Gardellino
ASTOR PIAZZOLLA
Spring from The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires
VIVALDI
Summer from The Four Seasons
ASTOR PIAZZOLLA
Fall from The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires
VIVALDI
Winter from The Four Seasons
Artists
Marya Martin, Kyu-Young Kim, Jessica Lee, Jesse Mills, Jessica Thompson, Raman Ramakrishnan, Jeffrey Beecher, Paolo Bordignon
Week One
25th ANNIVERSARY BENEFIT CONCERT- THE AMERICAN SOUND
Saturday, July 26, 6:30 pm
Atlantic Golf Club
This year’s benefit concert features the all-American sounds of Aaron Copland - his classic score Appalachian Spring, and a group of his arrangements of well-loved American songs for bass voice and ensemble. The tradition of such arrangements continues to this day, as we’ll hear in a setting of the song “Shenandoah.”
Program
COPLAND
Appalachian Spring, Suite for 13 Instruments
ANONYMOUS
Shenandoah
COPLAND
Selections from Old American Songs
TRADITIONAL
Negro Spirituals
Artists
Marya Martin, Stephen Williamson, Whitney Crockett, Kyu-Young Kim, Jessica Lee, Anne Akiko Meyers, Jesse Mills, Rebecca Albers, Jessica Thompson, Raman Ramakrishnan, Wilhelmina Smith, Jeffrey Beecher, Jeewon Park, Morris Robinson
Week One
MENDELSSOHN EARLY & LATE
Sunday, July 27, 6:30 pm
Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church
Written as an uplifting work during World War Two for Martha Graham’s dance troupe, Copland’s masterpiece Appalachian Spring highlights the evening. Also on this program is a generous measure of Mendelssohn: his buoyant Octet, the astonishing creation of a precocious 16-year-old, and two string quartet movements written in 1847, just a few months before his untimely death.
Program
MENDELSSOHN
Andante and Scherzo from Four Pieces, Op. 81
COPLAND
Appalachian Spring, Suite for 13 Instruments
MENDELSSOHN
Octet in E-Flat Major for Strings, Op. 20
Artists
Marya Martin, Stephen Williamson, Whitney Crockett, Kyu-Young Kim, Jessica Lee, Anne Akiko Meyers, Jesse Mills, Rebecca Albers, Jessica Thompson, Raman Ramakrishnan, Wilhelmina Smith, Jeffrey Beecher, Jeewon Park
Please call 631-537-6368 for tickets.
Week Two
SHIFTING ENSEMBLES
Wednesday, July 30, 7:30 pm
Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church
Wind instruments shine in Kenji Bunch’s Changes of Phase, which the Festival commissioned in 1999 and now brings back for its third go-round. Mozart loved wind instruments, too, and mined their possibilities in his Piano-and-Winds Quintet; when it was new he called it “the best work I have ever composed.” Dvořák’s Second Piano Quartet is redolent of the Czech countryside in which it was written.
Program
KENJI BUNCH
Changes of Phase for Woodwind Quintet
MOZART
Quintet in E-flat Major for Piano and Winds, K. 452
DVOŘÁK
Piano Quartet in E-Flat Major, Op. 87
Artists
Marya Martin, Nathan Hughes, Stephen Williamson, Whitney Crockett, Erik Ralske, Anne Akiko Meyers, Choong-Jin Chang, Eric Bartlett, Benjamin Hochman
Please call 631-537-6368 for tickets.
Week Two
PRE-DINNER CONCERT - TRIOS PLUS
Friday, August 1, 6:30-7:30 pm
Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church
Beethoven’s charming Allegretto for Piano Trio (WoO 39), his last work for that combination, dates from 1812, the year of his Eighth Symphony. His G-major String Trio, from 15 years earlier, stands at the moment he was just starting to stake his place for the ages. For a change in between, Eric Ewazen’s unusual grouping presents a kaleidoscope of textures, colors, and moods. All in all, a sumptuous prelude to a delightful dinner.
Program
BEETHOVEN
Piano Trio in B-Flat Major, WoO 39
ERIC EWAZEN
Ballade, Pastorale and Dance for Flute, Horn and Piano
BEETHOVEN
String Trio in G Major, Op. 9, No. 1
Artists
Marya Martin, Erik Ralske, Lily Francis, Karen Gomyo, Choong-Jin Chang, Eric Bartlett, Benjamin Hochman
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Week Two
LITTLE DVOŘÁK, BIG BRAHMS
Sunday, August 3, 6:30 pm
Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church
Friend-of-the-Festival Kenji Bunch unveils his latest work, a piece for flute and strings to herald our 25th anniversary. Dvořák’s four Miniatures for string trio remained unpublished for nearly six decades until they appeared very posthumously in 1945—an unwarranted delay, given their appealing songfulness. There’s nothing miniature about Brahms’ Piano Quintet, one of music’s towering monuments, the sort of piece Michelangelo would have written if he had composed chamber music.
Program
DVOŘÁK
Miniatures for 2 Violins and Viola, Op. 75a
KENJI BUNCH
New Moon and Morning for Flute and Strings (World premiere)
BRAHMS
Piano Quintet in F Minor, Op. 34
Artists
Marya Martin, Lily Francis, Karen Gomyo, Choong-Jin Chang, Eric Bartlett, Benjamin Hochman
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Week Three
FAMILY CONCERT - CLASSICAL ROMP
Tuesday, August 5, 5:00-6:00 pm
Arlene and Alan Alda Amphitheater at CMEE
The entertaining composer-commentator Bruce Adolphe promises to open young listeners’ ears to what’s going on in the music. Stravinsky’s Three Pieces becomes a plaything while the finale of Beethoven’s final string quartet reveals fascinating details about how composers work. Families should come prepared for fun, and maybe even do some composing of their own. In case of rain, the concert will take place at the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church.
Artists
Lily Francis, Colin Jacobsen, Nicholas Cords, Edward Arron, Bruce Adolphe
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Week Three
BCMF: offbeat - Quarter-Century Retrospective
Wednesday, August 6, 6:30-7:30 pm
Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church
During the 25 years since BCMF began, the repertoire has grown through countless new works, many of which seem on track to become classics. We’ve selected four that explore the fascinating paths modern composers have been traveling, from the elegant post-minimalism of Giovanni Sollima to the jazz idioms of Paul Schoenfield, from the rhythmic evasiveness of Conlon Nancarrow to the popular-classical hybrid of Astor Piazzolla.
Program
GIOVANNI SOLLIMA
Selections from Viaggio in Italia for String Quartet
PAUL SCHOENFIELD
Four Souvenirs for Flute and Piano
CONLON NANCARROW
Tango? for Solo Piano
ASTOR PIAZZOLLA
Four for Tango for String Quartet
Artists
Marya Martin, Lily Francis, Colin Jacobsen, Nicholas Cords, Edward Arron, Pedja Muzijevic
Please call 631-537-6368 for tickets.
Week Three
WM. BRIAN LITTLE CONCERT - BACH’S VIRTUOSOS
Friday, August 8, 6:00 pm - Wine tasting and appetizers; 7:00 pm Concert
Channing Sculpture Garden
The family and friends of Brian Little invite you to enjoy a special evening of Brandenburg Concertos along with wines from Channing Daughters under our tent at the Channing Sculpture Garden. These works stand as a dazzling summation of late-Baroque instrumental style. The three performed in this hour-long outdoor concert are the most virtuosic of the set, thrusting an array of instrumentalists into the spotlight for star turns.
Program
BACH
Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F Major, BWV 1047
Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major, BWV 1050
Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G Major, BWV 1049
Artists
Marya Martin, Erin Lesser, Nathan Hughes, David Krauss, Lily Francis, Colin Jacobsen, Ayano Ninomiya, Nicholas Cords, Edward Arron, Donald Palma, Paolo Bordignon
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Week Three
SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE
Sunday, August 10, 6:30 pm
Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church
Special Guest: Roger Waters
Stravinsky crafted The Soldier’s Tale for slender resources just after World War One, but he made no concessions of quality in this narrated tale of a fiddling soldier in a Faustian struggle. Arvo Pärt’s Summa, which its composer arranged from an earlier choral work, provides a spiritual prelude to Mendelssohn’s daredevil Sextet, an early work that, notwithstanding its “late” opus number, he wrote at age 15.
Program
ARVO PÄRT
Summa for Violin, 2 Violas and Cello
MENDELSSOHN
Sextet in D Major for Strings and Piano, Op. 110
STRAVINSKY
The Soldier’s Tale - Narrated by Roger Waters
Artists
Stephen Williamson, Peter Kolkay, David Krauss, David Finlayson, Colin Jacobsen, Ayano Ninomiya, Nicholas Cords, Edward Arron, Donald Palma, Pedja Muzijevic, Ayano Kataoka, Roger Waters
Please call 631-537-6368 for tickets.
