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Music Mountain Chamber Festival Going 80 Years Strong | The Good Life In The Country

Music Mountain Chamber Festival Going 80 Years Strong

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Written by 
Seth Rogovoy
This summer's program

 

 

Music Mountain lays claim to being the oldest continuing summer chamber music festival in the country, and at eighty years, no one’s arguing. Founded in 1929 as the permanent home for the Gordon String Quartet, one of the leading string quartets of its time, the festival, which takes place annually in Lakeville, Connecticut, attracts the world’s top chamber music ensembles and soloists to its 335-seat acoustic marvel, Gordon Hall. While originally limited to classical music, the festival’s menu has expanded over the years, embracing jazz, choral, and ethnic music as part of its domain.
 

 

This month’s music kicks off on Sunday, July 5, with the Zimro Project, devoted to Jewish-themed music, featuring clarinetist Alexander Fiterstein leading a sextet in Prokofiev’s Overture on Hebrew Themes and contemporary composer Osvaldo Golijov’s Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind. Helping to mark this summer’s eightieth anniversary are the Cassatt String Quartet, with cellist Marc Johnson, in a program of Dvorak and Schubert on Sunday, July 19, at 3, and the Penderecki String Quartet, joined by pianist Daniel Epstein, on July 26, tackling Beethoven’s String Quartet in B Flat Major, Opus 18; H. Waldo Warner’s Suite in the Olden Style, Opus 34; and Brahms’s Piano Quintet in F Minor, Opus 34. The following weekend features a two-day celebration of Argentinean tango, featuring works by Astor Piazzolla and others, including Villa-Lobos, Cobian, and Delfino, performed by the Cuarteto Latinoamericano.
 

 

Jazz at Music Mountain includes the New Black Eagle Jazz Band on July 11, Hal McIntyre’s Glenn Miller-style big-band orchestrations on August 8, and the Galvanized Jazz Band on August 15. Clarinetist Fiterstein returns on August 30, leading his klezmer trio, including the legendary Zev Feldman on tsimbl—klezmer’s answer to the hammered dulcimer—and accordionist Christine Crowder, before the Shanghai Quartet brings the curtain down on this momentous season on September 5 and 6 with works by Beethoven, Ravel, and Schumann.—SR

[JULY 2009]

 

THE GOODS

Music Mountain
Lakeville, Conn.
860.824.7126
www.musicmountain.org

 

 

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