DIRECTIONS (MAP)

As you enter the town from the west, you will go through the flashing traffic light and the Church will be on your right. From the east, go past Bridgehampton/Sag Harbor Turnpike and the Church will be on your left.

PARKING

The Church parking lot is directly to the left rear of the Church, with ample extended parking on the grassy field in back of the Church (please obey the signs posted to indicate public and handicapped parking). The town parking lot is also close by, to the west of the Church.

DIRECTIONS
Approximately one mile beyond Water Mill – at the Hess Gas station, turn left onto Scuttle Hole Road. Continue on Scuttle Hole Road for approximately 2.25 miles, and the Club is on the left.

PARKING
There is a convenient parking lot at the Club.

DIRECTIONS
As you enter the town from the west, you will pass Butter Lane. The Historical Society is on your left at the flashing light. From the east, go through the town and it is on your right at the flashing light.

PARKING
There is parking available (only for the Outdoor Concert) in the field behind the Society which is accessible on Corwith Avenue. There is also parking available in the town parking lot across Montauk Highway (and behind the shopping center) accessible on School Lane.

DIRECTIONS

From the west, go through the town of Water Mill and turn left on to Scuttle Hole Road (at the Hess gas station). Follow Scuttle Hole past Lumber Lane and enter the Channing Daughters Winery on the right. You will be directed within the Winery grounds. From the east, at the monument on Montauk Highway (Main Street) make a wide right onto Lumber Lane and follow it to the end. Turn right onto Scuttle Hole and follow as above.

PARKING
There is parking around the tent in field and parking attendants will assist you.

COLORFUL COMBINATIONS
Sunday, August 23, 6:30 pm
Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church

Our season comes to its close with a kaleidoscope of colorful vocal and instrumental combinations, beginning with a good-humored trio Haydn wrote during a visit to London. Of Brahms’ 200 lieder, the two performed here are the only ones where an obbligato instrument—here a rich-toned viola—joins the solo singer. Ravel’s Shéhérazade includes a poem about an enchanted flute, which naturally inspired him to write an obbligato flute part. Brahms used his tumultuous G-minor Piano Quartet as a calling card when he settled in his adopted city of Vienna. It did the trick. After a rehearsal, one of Vienna’s musical kingpins asserted, “This is Beethoven’s heir!”

Program

HAYDN
London Trio in C Major, Hob. IV:I
BRAHMS
Zwei Gesänge for Alto, Viola and Piano, Op. 91
RAVEL
Shéhérazade for Mezzo-Soprano, Flute and Piano
BRAHMS
Piano Quartet in G Minor, Op. 25

Artists

Marya Martin, Ani Kavafian, Cynthia Phelps, Edward Arron,
Inon Barnatan, Sasha Cooke

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FAMILY CONCERT – SECRET STORIES!
Thursday, August 20, 5:00-6:00 pm 
Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church

The entertaining composer-commentator Bruce Adolphe returns to open young listeners’ ears in discovering stories being told through music. Kids will experience a whole landscape of exciting tales in works by Beethoven, Janácek and Stravinsky. Families should come to the Presbyterian Church prepared to improvise their own musical story.

Program

BEETHOVEN
Allegro Con Brio from Violin Sonata in C Minor
JANÁCEK
Con Moto (I) from Pohadka
BRUCE ADOLPHE
Flowing, Swirling from Three Secret Stories
STRAVINSKY
Soldier’s March and Devil’s Dance from L’Histoire du Soldat

Artists

Anthony McGill, Jessica Lee, Edward Arron, Inon Barnatan

INSTRUMENTAL FIREWORKS
Wednesday, August 19, 7:30 pm
Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church

Exceptional instrumentalists inspired the first two works on this program. Rossini wrote his Duo for an affluent amateur cellist who wished to play with the renowned double bass virtuoso Domenico Dragonetti, and Mozart composed his Trio for his friend Anton Stadler, one of history’s first clarinet superstars. The British composer Thomas Adès provides a musical game in which an ensemble labors to rein in an errant clarinetist—a far cry from the tone of Vaughan Williams’ little known Piano Quintet, by turns pastoral and passionate.

Program

ROSSINI
Duo in D Major for Cello and Double Bass
MOZART
Trio in E-flat Major for Clarinet, Viola and Piano, K. 498, Kegelstatt
ADÈS
Catch for Clarinet, Violin, Cello and Piano, Op. 4
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Piano Quintet in C Minor

Artists

Anthony McGill, Ani Kavafian, Jessica Lee, Cynthia Phelps,
Edward Arron, Donald Palma, Inon Barnatan
 

CLASSICS TO CURRENTS
Sunday, August 16, 6:30 pm
Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church

A gracious string trio from Beethoven’s early years paves the way for works by two eclectic modernists. Bruce MacCombie’s output is small but choice, marked by meticulous clarity, delicacy, and luminous textures; his new work for flute and string quartet gets its first airing here. William Bolcom’s string duo Session II glances towards the past, and Brahms’ B Major Piano Trio, which stretched across 37 years of his career, reaffirms its status as one of chamber music’s desert-island masterworks.

Program

BEETHOVEN
String Trio in D Major, Op. 9, No. 2
BRUCE MacCOMBIE
Commission for Flute and String Quartet (World Premiere)
WILLIAM BOLCOM
Session II (1966)
BRAHMS
Piano Trio in B Major, Op. 8

Artists

Marya Martin, Colin Jacobsen, Soovin Kim, Nicholas Cords,
Carter Brey, Pedja Muzijevic

WM. BRIAN LITTLE CONCERT – INSPIRED BY LOVE
Friday, August 14, 6:00 pm – Wine tasting and appetizers; 7:00 pm Concert
Channing Sculpture Garden

Special Guest: David Pittsinger from Broadway’s South Pacific

The family and friends of Brian Little invite you to enjoy a special evening music inspired by love along with wines from Channing Daughters under our tent at the Channing Sculpture Garden. Our evening highlights those composers whose unorthodox love lives have proved endlessly fascinating: Tchaikovsky, a homosexual who poured out his heart in letters to a patroness who refused to meet him; Gershwin, a bachelor who enjoyed the devotion of fellow Broadway composer Kay Swift (married with children); and the complicated triangle of Robert and Clara Schumann and their protégé Johannes Brahms. As bookends, we visit Gluck’s Orfeo and the peerless Broadway score South Pacific for seemingly mismatched lovers who offer wisdom for the ages.

Program

GLUCK
Dance of the Blessed Spirits from Orfeo
TCHAIKOVSKY
Andante Cantabile from String Quartet No. 1 in D Major, Op. 11
GERSHWIN
Three Preludes
SCHUMANN
Allegro Brillante from Piano Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 44
BRAHMS
Andante from Piano Quartet in C Minor, Op. 60
RODGERS and HAMMERSTEIN
Selections from South Pacific

Artists

Marya Martin, Stephen Williamson, Colin Jacobsen, Soovin Kim, Nicholas Cords,
Carter Brey, Jeffrey Beecher, Pedja Muzijevic, David Pittsinger, Fred Lassen

Featuring David Pittsinger from Broadway’s South Pacific

BCMF: OFFBEAT- BROAD HORIZONS
Tuesday, August 11, 6:30 – 7:30 pm
Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church

Brooklyn Rider derives its name from the Blaue Reiter (“Blue Rider”), an interdisciplinary group of artists and musicians from a hundred years ago. But Brooklyn Rider is very much a 21st-century quartet, and its repertoire reaches back to the classics and reflects global music of our time. Members of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Project, this foursome presents a program that travels all over the map: a Philip Glass minimalist work, arrangements from Persian and Armenian folk music, dances from Russia and Mexico, and a tango from Finland.

Program

KOMITAS VARDAPET
Selections from Armenian Folk Songs
PHILIP GLASS
Quartet No. 2, Company (1984)
SCHUBERT
Andante Con Motofrom Quartet No. 14 in D Minor, D. 810, Death and the Maiden
CAFÉ TACUBA/GOLIJOV
La Muerte Chiquita
TOIVO KARKI
Taysikuu – The Full Moon
LJOVA
Plume (2005)
LJOVA
Crosstown (2005)
TRAD. PERSIAN
Ascending Bird

Artists

Brooklyn Rider: Johnny Gandelsman, Colin Jacobsen, Nicholas Cords, Eric Jacobsen