Videocast: Love Songs From Around the World
Electric Earth Concerts kicks off its 9th season with the first of our Videocast performances—“Lume—Love Songs from Around the World,” with Bosnian-Dutch accordionist–composer Merima Ključo and singer Jelena Milušić.
Canceled: Dinner and a Show: The American Songbook with Jazimina MacNeil
Singer Jazimina MacNeil and pianist Gordon Peery team up for a concert of songs from the American Songbook. Beloved jazz standards and show tunes from the early to mid 1900’s represent a golden age of melody, and continue to be interpreted in many different styes by a wide range of musicians.
Canceled: Verona String Quartet
The brilliant quartet returns to EEC with a perfectly balanced program: Beethoven: String Quartet in F, Op. 18 No.1; Donnacha Dennehy: “The Weather Of It”; Dvorak: String Quartet in G, Op. 106
Videocast: Gabriela Diaz — Bartok and Berio
Violinist Gabriela Diaz performs a short recital of works by Bartok and Berio.
Canceled: When Merry Lads Are Playing
Taya König-Tarasevich, baroque flute & Daniel Swenberg, lute make an exciting period-instrument duo that brings sweet music for the month of May.
Videocast: Jesse Mills & Rieko Aizawa – violin / piano
The remarkable DUO PRISM made a video in their Manhattan Apartment just for our EEC viewers. In addition to sonatas by Mozart & Brahms, there is a brand new piece, heard here for the first time, by composer Tim Kiah.
Videocast: A Bird Came Down the Walk
EEC directors Laura Gilbert and Jonathan Bagg bring together an unusual instrumental alchemy in a nature-inspired program, with music by Bohuslav Martinu, Lior Navok, Toru Takemitsu, and Ethel Smyth. With guest pianist Mimi Solomon.
Canceled: EEC-Sebago-Long Lake
This summer’s NH-Maine collaboration celebrates Beethoven’s anniversary with the piece that made him a star, his glorious Septet, Op. 20. Also: Charles Koechlin: Quatre Pièces for Horn Trio; Prokofiev Sonata Op. 94 with Laura Gilbert, flute & Mihae Lee, piano.
Canceled: Spiritual Voices
Olly Wilson’s “A City Called Heaven” for large ensemble, Ben Johnston’s classic “Amazing Grace” quartet, a setting of spirituals by Mark Kuss, and a work by Anthony Kelly touch on the underlying theme of Changing the Conversation: how the interplay of gender, race, politics, and aesthetics has helped to shape the language of American music.
Videocast: American Mavericks
American Mavericks—New Morse Code + Thomas Kotcheff, in a Videocast of contemporary works by Philip Glass, Frederic Rzewski, David Lang, Tonia Ko and Thomas Kotcheff.
Canceled: David McCarroll, Bach Solo Works for Violin
Virtuoso violinist of the Vienna Piano Trio devotes an evening to some of the greatest music in the repertoire. (This concert has been canceled.)
Videocast: Ladies on the Move
Four women, two of them African American, cover a huge stylistic range despite all being born prior to 1920, when the 19th amendment gave the vote to women. Music of Amy Beach, Marion Bauer, Undine Smith Moore, and Margaret Bonds. Part of a three-day commemoration of the suffrage centennial with events hosted by the Amos Fortune Forum, the Monadnock Lyceum, and Electric Earth Concerts. Featuring soprano Marlissa Hudson, and pianist Marvin Mills.
Canceled: Three Piano Trios, Opus 1
David Breitman, fortepiano, Jaap ter Linden, cello & Johanna Novom, violin. A constellation of period-instrument stars takes on Beethoven’s magnificent first published opus, a set of trios that were designed to astound the public with their revolutionary approach and virtuoso technique.
Videocast: Ciompi Quartet – Madame et Messieurs
Jonathan Bagg is joined by his colleagues in Duke University’s renowned Ciompi Quartet for a program of French romantic masterworks by Gabriel Fauré, Camille Saint-Saëns, and the neglected—but brilliant—Marie Jaëll, greatly admired by both of the male composers on the program.
The Singing Stream: A Musical Hike on the Hiroshi Loop Trail
Harris Center 83 Kings Highway, Hancock, New HampshireThe Harris Center and Electric Earth Concerts present The Singing Stream, curated by Jazimina McNeil and Marji Gere, a musical journey through a Dublin, NH, trail.
Horszowski Trio – Videocast and Zoom Reception
Our old friends, the amazing Horzsowski Trio, are cooking up a program yet to be announced. Stay tuned to our website for the exciting details.
Videocast: Catalyst Quartet, Uncovered
Florence B. Price and Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson contributed beautifully crafted work to the twentieth century repertoire but have not been widely celebrated; the Catalyst’s own Jessie Montgomery and Mexican composer Javier Álvarez complete this dynamic and eye-opening program.
