The Electric Earth Concerts 2012 Season
Electric Earth’s Inaugural Concert!
Monday, February 27 6PM
Antigoni Goni, Guitarist
First Church in Jaffrey Center,
Iiana Davidson, soprano; Antigoni Goni, Guitar; Laura Gilbert, flute; Prism Duo: Jesse Mills, violin; Rieko Aizawa, piano
Program:
John Dowland: Flow My Tears
Jose Luis Merlin: from Suite del Recuerdo
Astor Piazzola: from L’histoire du Tango
Ned Rorem: from Night Music
Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata in A major, Op. 47
“Kreutzer”
Ciompi Quartet
Sunday, April 1
The Ciompi Quartet
with Laura Gilbert, flute
First Church
in Jaffrey Center, 3pm
Program:
Haydn: String Quartet in F minor, Op. 20 No. 5
Arthur Foote: Night Piece and Scherzo for Flute and String Quartet
Dvorak: String Quartet in A-flat, Op. 105
Lauren Flanigan
Friday, May 4
An Evening of Kurt Weill,
Lauren Flanigan, soprano
Benefit reception for EEC and Music for the Mountain at 6pm
Peterborough Players, Peterborough, Concert at 7:30pm
Operatic soprano Lauren Flanigan and a tight-knit quartet bring Weill’s cabaret music vividly to life, featuring Ms. Flanigan’s favorites—both well- and lesser-known. Here’s a link about Lauren and her fantastic residency at the New York City Armory.
Saturday, May 26
Auréole Trio
Shelter From the Storm Benefit Concert
Limited Seating • Reservations Required
Private home in Jaffrey
Reception with the Musicians 6:30pm; concert to follow
Horszowski Trio
Thursday,
June 14 &
Saturday,
June 16
Horszowski Trio
A superb new ensemble will make its New Hampshire debut. The Horszowski Trio features the artistry of violinist Jesse Mills, pianist Rieko Aizawa, and cellist Raman Ramakrishnan.
Program 1: Thursday, June 14,
Congregation Ahavas Achim, Keene, NH at 7:30pm
Shostakovich: Trio No.1, Op. 8
Mozart: Trio in B-flat Major, K. 502
Dvorak: Trio in f minor, Op. 65
Program 2: Horszowski Plus Three! Saturday, June 16
at Jaffrey Center Meeting House at 7:30 pm
Stravinsky: l’Histoire du Soldat Trio for clarinet, violin, and piano
Schoenberg/Webern: Kammersymphonie, Op. 9 for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano
Brahms: Quartet for piano and strings in c minor, Op. 60 with Steven Jackson, clarinet; Laura Gilbert, flute; and Masumi Per Rostad, viola.
Wednesday, June 20
Folk-indie trio Plume Giant celebrates the Summer Solstice at Cathedral of the Pines, Rindge, NH at 7:00 pm
The young and highly infectious “retro-folk trio” Plume Giant brings three-part harmony, original songs, and a rich string sound to their act. Hear them while watching the setting sun at Cathedral of the Pines, a famously spectacular view of Mount Monadnock
Tuesday, July 17
Borromeo Quartet
at 7:30 p.m.
The Borromeo has it all: strong interpretation, impeccable style, and brilliant technique. String Quartet playing at its best, in two epic masterpieces of the repertoire
Program:
Beethoven: String Quartet
in a minor, Op. 132
Schubert: String Quartet in d minor, “Death and the Maiden”
Wednesday, August 1
Chiara Quartet: Beethoven and T.S. Eliot Carter Hall
at Crotched Mountain Rehabilitation Center
at 7:30 p.m.
The Chiara Quartet and George Gopen, scholar and extraordinary reader, will collaborate in a hybrid concert that juxtaposes T.S. Eliot’s masterpiece, Four Quartets, a work inspired by Beethoven’s Late Quartets, with the String Quartet in B-flat, Opus 130.
Tony Arnold
Saturday,
September 22
Vienna Unbound!
First Church of Jaffrey Center, 7:30 pm
Performers include
Tony Arnold, soprano; Rieko Aizawa, piano; Jesse Mills, Owen Dalby: violin; Elizabeth Anderson, Gregory Hesselink: cello; Tawnya Popoff, Jonathan Bagg: viola; Laura Gilbert, flute
Program:
Mozart: Flute Quartet in D major
Berg: Seven Early Songs (1905)
Schoenberg: String Quartet No. 2, Op. 10
Brahms: Sextet No. 1 in B-flat, Op. 18
Ilana Davidson
Saturday, October 6
Foliage Concert
5:00pm; Peterborough Unitarian Universalist Church
With Ilana Davidson, soprano, Audrey Axinn, piano and ElectricEarth musicians: Jennifer Elowitch and Andrew Eng, violin; Jonathan Bagg, viola, Elizabeth Anderson, cello; Jamie MacDonald, bass, Steve Jackson, clarinet and Laura Gilbert, flute. Our Traditional Columbus Weekend Bach Concert: an autumnal celebration continued. Save the date!
Program: Bach: Orchestral Suite #2 in B minor; Schubert: Der Hirt auf dem Felsen (Shepherd on the Rock); Mozart: Exsultate Jubilate and the premiere of EEC’s commissioned songs for soprano, strings and flute, by Boston composer, Nick Stoia. Join us for an hour long concert and then dine at The Waterhouse Restaurant in Depot Square.
Matt Savage, piano
Saturday, November 17, 5:00pm
Special Benefit for ElectricEarth & Music for the Mountain
First Church of Jaffrey Center, 5:00pm
A program of French music with special guests:
Matt Savage, jazz pianist
Janna Baty, mezzo-soprano
Horszowski Trio, EEC’s resident piano trio
Aaron Boyd, violin
Concert followed by a special EEC benefit dinner at Grand View, Jaffrey (please contact Miki Osgood at eeconcerts@gmail.com for details)
EEC musicians come together to play a concert of French Romantic and Impressionist music to help secure funding for our next 12 months of programs – check our “Future Projects” page.
Program to include: Saint-Saens: Piano Trio No. 1 in F Major, Debussy: Six Epigraphes Antiques; Fauré: La Bonne Chanson and Matt’s jazz homage to the Impressionists…
