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[!] Press Release: March 20, 2007 - Times Argus review of MCOS 2007 Spring Concert
Here is what one concert-goer recently said about the 10th Anniversary Spring Concert:
"And on Sunday, the Montpelier Chamber Orchestra... gave its listeners at the Montpelier Unitarian Church an unforgettable and soul-stirring treat as it played music spanning four centuries from Corelli to Diane Huling of Cabot, who teaches at Johnson State. I have been listening to chamber and orchestral music around the world for six decades and never have I witnessed a performance as stellar as this one. This is my third year living in central Vermont and I venture to say that on a per capita basis, the area enjoys a wealth of musical talent second to none. I hope others share my enthusiasm and appreciation for all the fine live classical, choral and other musical styles available to us."- Stephen L. Finner of Barre, VT
Barre Times Argus
April 14, 2005
Call (802)223-5501 to reserve tickets.
Adults $15.00 / Seniors $12.00 / Students $5.00
Children under 12 are free
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MARCH 2010 PROGRAM
Sat. March 20, 2010, 8:00pm, Vermont College of Fine Arts Chapel
Sun. MAcrh 21, 2010, 4:00pm, Vermont College of Fine Arts Chapel
MENDELSSOHN: Sinfonia No X (strings only)
REINECKE: Flute Concerto (featuring Karen Kevra, flute)
TBA: Selection with Celtic band alone, orchestra tacet
MOCK: The Stone (for Celtic band and strings: Patrick Ross, violin; Karen K, whistle; Colin McCaffrey, guitar; TBA, bodhran) - listen now
BIZET: Symphony No 1 (Symphony in C)
Featured musician: Karen Kevra (flute, penny whistle)
Karen Kevra has won attention as one of the country's outstanding flutists through her distinctive warm and extroverted performances as a soloist and chamber musician, and has been hailed as "having a musical focus and depth seen in few flutists anywhere." Ms. Kevra's commitment to expanding the modern flute repertoire includes the premier recording of works by Louis Moyse (Works for flute and Piano of Louis Moyse-CRI CD888) which earned a 2003 Grammy nomination and accolades from numerous American Record reviewers. Fanfare Magazine called the disc, "A must for flute fanciers and anyone else with ears." In addition to recent performances on French National Television, at Carnegie Hall and at the French Embassy in Washington D.C., Ms. Kevra was invited by violinist/conductor Jaime Laredo to perform as soloist with the Vermont Symphony Orchestra on their 10 concert "Made In Vermont" Tour in the Fall of 2003. Her chamber engagements have included appearances with the Borromeo String Quartet, the Boston Chamber Music Society, Jaime Laredo-violin, Sharon Robinson-cello, and Jeffrey Chappell-piano.
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More events will be posted soon.
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FALL 2009 PROGRAM
Sat. October 24, 2009, 8:00pm, Vermont College of Fine Arts Chapel
Sun. October 25, 2009, 4:00pm, Vermont College of Fine Arts Chapel
Prokofiev: Classical Symphony (Symphony No. 1 in D Major), op. 25
Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K622 (featuring soloist Ian Greitzer)
Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 in C Major, op. 21
Soloist Ian Greitzer
Ian Greitzer is principal clarinetist of the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, Boston Classical Orchestra, and the Rhode Island Philharmonic. He is also a member of the Boston Musica Viva, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, Dinosaur Annex, Zephyr Wind Quintet, and the Boston Conservatory Chamber Players. Mr. Greitzer has recorded for Philips, CRI, Koch International, Newport Classics, South German Radio, and Northeastern Records. He is a faculty member at Boston University College of Fine Arts and The Boston Conservatory.
Announcing Fall Concert Conductor Edward Markward
Equally at home as conductor of orchestral, opera, and choral music, Edward Markward has served as Music Director/Conductor of the Rhode Island Civic Chorale and Orchestra since 1987. He has enjoyed a distinguished and varied career as a conductor and educator since joining the faculty of Rhode Island College in 1973, where he conducts the Symphony Orchestra, teaches conducting and serves as co-director of the Opera Workshop. Guest conducting engagements have included the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Oratorio Choir, the Newport Music Festival, the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra, the Brooklyn Heights Symphony Orchestra, Festival Ballet Providence, and the Perrysburg (Ohio) Symphony Orchestra. Markward has served as Music Director for the Bel Canto Opera Company, Music Director/Conductor for Opera Rhode Island, Associate Conductor of the Providence Opera Theater, principal guest conductor for the Brooklyn Heights Symphony, and was founding conductor of the Festival Chamber Orchestra of Rhode Island. Prior to his Rhode Island appointments, he was Music Director/Conductor of the Ann Arbor Cantata Singers and Chamber Orchestra and Musical Director for the Ann Arbor Civic Theater in Michigan.
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SPRING 2009 PROGRAM
Sat. March 21, 2009, 8:00pm, Vermont College of Fine Arts Chapel
Sun. March 22, 2009, 4:00pm, Vermont College of Fine Arts Chapel
Beethoven: Piano Concerto #3
Haydn: "Drumroll" Symphony (No. 103)
Thomas Oboe Lee: Seven Steps to Heaven
Featuring Piano soloist Mana Tokuno
Pianist Mana Tokuno has received wide-spread acclaim for her sensitive and insightful interpretations and her brilliant virtuosity. First Prize winner of the prestigious Competition Internationalé, she also received the Leo Sirota Award for Piano Solo Performance at the Corpus Chrsti International Competition as well as the Special Award for Schubert Interpretation at the International Competition Valsesia Musica in Varallo, Italy. Other prizes include the Dosei-Kai Prize for Distinction in Performance, and the Silver Medal in the Chubu Chopin Competition in Nagoya, Japan.
Announcing Guest Conductor Victor Rosenbaum
Victor Rosenbaum, pianist and conductor, has performed widely as piano soloist and chamber music performer in the United States, Europe, Asia, Israel, and Russia in such prestigious halls as Tully Hall in New York and the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Russia. As a conductor, Rosenbaum has been Assistant Conductor of the Brandeis and Princeton University Orchestras, has guest conducted the orchestras of New England Conservatory and the Longy School of Music, as well as the new England Conservatory Contemporary Ensemble, the Mystic Valley Symphony Orchestra (now the New England Philharmonic), the Quincy Symphony Orchestra, and was founder and conductor of the Concerto Company, a chamber orchestra committed to giving young soloists the experience of performing concertos.
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FALL 2008 PROGRAM - "The Last Leaves of Autumn"
Sat. November 8, 2008, 8:00pm, Vermont College Hall Chapel
Sun. November 9, 2008, 4:00pm, Vermont College Hall Chapel
Bela Bartok: Rumanian Folk Dances
Conni Ellisor: Blackberry Winter
Conni Ellisor (arranged by): Traditional Folk Music: Southwind
W.A. Mozart: Symphony in G Minor No. 40
Strauss: Serenade
Featuring Mountain Dulcimer soloist Stephen Seifert
Stephen Seifert began playing the mountain dulcimer in 1991. He is now a favorite at festivals and clubs around the country. Besides authoring a long list of books and videos, serving as dulcimer soloist with symphonies around the country, and organizing the world's first chromatic dulcimer festival, he also hosts Mountain Dulcimer Folk, a live weekly podcast featuring music and interviews with mountain dulcimer players around the world. Stephen also dabbles with Irish whistle, Harmonica, Jaw-Harp, Clawhammer Banjo, Old-Time Fiddle, Piano, Guitar, and Bass. He believes that music is for everyone, not just famous folks.
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SPRING 2008 PROGRAM
Sat. March 29, 2008, 8:00pm, Vermont College Hall Chapel
Sun. March 30, 2008, 4:00pm, Vermont College Hall Chapel
Troy Peters: Between Hills Briefly Green
Ludwig van Beethoven: Romance No. 1 in G major, Op. 40
Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, BWV 1041
Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major, D. 485
feat. Violin Soloist Michael Dabroski
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PROJECT OUTREACH
Mon. March 31, 2008, 7:30pm, Main Street School, Montpelier
Young musicians from the Main Street School join MCOS in performance at Main Street School in Montpelier. Master classes and evening concert.
What is Project Outreach?
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FALL 2007 PROGRAM
Sat. November 17, 2007, 8:00pm, Vermont College Hall Chapel
Sun. November 18, 2007, 4:00pm, Vermont College Hall Chapel
The major work on the fall concerts of the Montpelier Chamber Orchestra will be Hector Berlioz's remarkable song cycle, Les nuits d'été ("Summer Nights"), with mezzo-soprano Wendy Hoffman Farrell. To go with this wonderful piece, we'll be doing a variety of other works inspired by the seasons:
Delius: On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring & Summer Night on the River
Corelli: Concerto grosso in G minor, Op. 6, No. 8 "Christmas Concerto"
Thomas L. Read: On October Ground
Berlioz: Les nuits d'été ("Summer Nights")
feat. Soprano Wendy Hoffman Farrell
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SPRING 2007 PROGRAM
Sat. March 17, 2007, 8:00pm, Vermont College Hall Chapel
Sun. March 18, 2007, 4:00pm, Vermont College Hall Chapel
Edward Elgar: Serenade in E minor, Op. 20
Burrill Phillips: Concert Piece for Bassoon and Strings
Francisco Mignone: Concertino for Bassoon and Chamber Orchestra
W.A. Mozart: Symphony No. 29 in A major, K. 201/186a
Percy Grainger: Irish Tune from County Derry
Percy Grainger: Molly on the Shore
The soloist for the Phillips and Mignone will be bassoonist Rachael Elliott
Rachael Elliott has toured extensively throughout the United States and Europe and recorded several critically-acclaimed albums with the innovative new music ensemble, Clogs. Her interest in contemporary and improvised music has led her to commission and perform several new works featuring the bassoon. Recent grants and awards include: National Endowment for the Arts/Chamber Music America Special Commissioning Award (with Clogs); Vermont Arts Council Opportunity Grant; and American Composers Forum Encore Grant. Rachael earned degrees in bassoon performance from the Manhattan School of Music and the Yale School of Music, where she studied with Frank Morelli. Other teachers have included Janet Polk and Pascal Gallois. She teaches at the University of Vermont, Middlebury College and the Kinhaven Music School.
"Elliott is the Jaco Pastorius of the bassoon, sweeping between glowing bass parts and sweet, yearning melodies in the highest register." -- The Guardian (UK)
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Read the Times Argus concert review here.
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FALL 2006 PROGRAM
Sat. November 4, 2006, 8:00pm, Vermont College Hall Chapel
Sun. November 5, 2006, 4:00pm, Vermont College Hall Chapel
"Natural Wonders"
Gwyneth Walker: About Leaves
Joseph Canteloube: Songs of the Auvergne - Shyla Nelson, soprano soloist
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 "Pastoral"
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PROJECT OUTREACH
Mon. March 27, 2006, 6:30pm, Main Street School, Montpelier
Young musicians from the Main Street School join MCOS in performance at Main Street School in Montpelier.
What is Project Outreach?
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SPRING 2006 PROGRAM
Sat. March 25, 2006, 8:00pm, Unitarian Church of Montpelier
Sun. March 26, 2006, 4:00pm, Unitarian Church of Montpelier
Three German Dances, K. 605 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Rhythmic Variations on Two Ancient Hymns Howard Hanson
O Magnum Mysterium Morten Lauridsen (* Arr. Sandra Dackow)
Symphony No. 34 in C major, K. 338 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I. Allegro vivace
II. Andante di molto piu' tosto Allegretto
III. Allegro Vivace
Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra Alexander Arutunian (* Daniel Patrylak, trumpet)
Overture to Nabucco Giuseppe Verdi
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FALL 2005 PROGRAM
Sat. October 22, 2005, 8:00pm, Unitarian Church of Montpelier
Sun. October 23, 2005, 4:00pm, Unitarian Church of Montpelier
Suite from Platée (1749)
Jean-Phillippe Rameau 1683 - 1764
Meditation from Thaïs
Jules Massenet (1842 - 1912)
Prelude a l'apres midi d'un faune
Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918)
Masques et Bergamasques, op. 112
Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
Ma mere l'Oye
Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937)
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JUNE 2005 PROGRAM
Sat. June 4, 2005, 7:30pm, Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, Vermont
Music to celebrate Soprano Marjorie Drysdale
With Wayne Hobbs and Michael Hogan, tenors, Sounding Joy! chorus
And the Montpelier Chamber Orchestra
The concert will include selections from musical theater, operetta, lieder, and oratorios, concluding with stunning Puccini opera solos and duets with the orchestra.
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PROJECT OUTREACH
Mon. April 11, 2005, 7:00pm, U-32 High School Auditorium, East Montpelier
Young musicians from the Rumney and Berlin schools join MCOS in performance at U-32 High School Auditorium, East Montpelier.
What is Project Outreach?
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SPRING 2005 PROGRAM - MCOS 10th Anniversary Concert
Sat. April 2, 2005, 8:00pm, Unitarian Church of Montpelier
Sun. April 3, 2005, 4:00pm, Unitarian Church of Montpelier
Come celebrate MCOS's 10th anniversary spring concert: EVOLUTION.
Since the group began with a desire to give string players a special home, it is honoring those roots with a program of all-string music. The music takes place in Rome-1714, Hamburg-1773, Berlin-1821, Prague-1875, Frankfurt-1927, and Cabot, Vt.-2005, thus spanning almost 300 years of differing styles in our musical evolution (Corelli, CPE Bach, Mendelssohn, Dvorak, Hindemith, Huling). To honor MCOS's founding director Diane Huling, the orchestra has commissioned her to compose a work for strings which will receive its world premier at these concerts. MCOS has also invited Vermonter now-college student at Baltimore's Peabody Conservatory Jesse Irons & two friends to solo with the orchestra.
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DECEMBER 2004 PROGRAM
Sat. Dec. 18, 2004, 7:30pm, St. Augustine’s Catholic Church, Montpelier
Sun. Dec. 19, 2004, 3:00pm, St. Augustine’s Catholic Church, Montpelier
Pergolesi: Missa Romana
Haydn: Harmoniemesse
Schubert: Unfinished Symphony, No. 8
Soloists:
Celina Moore, soprano
Elaine Russell, mezzo-soprano
Robert Dockstader, tenor
Simon Chaussé, baritone
Chorus: Onion River Chorus
Orchestra: Montpelier Chamber Orchestra
Conductors: Larry Gordon & Catherine Broucek Orr
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FALL 2004 PROGRAM
Sat. Nov. 6, 2004, 8:00pm, Unitarian Church of Montpelier
Sun. Nov. 7, 2004, 4:00pm, Unitarian Church of Montpelier
Mozart: Overture to Magic Flute
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto
Schubert: Unfinished Symphony, No. 8
Linda Rosenthal, violin soloist
Press Release
Times Argus article 11-05-04
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