A New Country, with Jennifer Johnson Cano & Longleash Trio

First Church in Jaffrey 14 Laban Ainsworth Way, Jaffrey

Pulitzer winner Paul Moravec’s A New Country (2018) celebrates the aspirations of immigrants to America, using poetry by Walt Whitman and Emma Lazarus, among others. Young Metropolitan Opera mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano is joined by the dynamic Longleash Piano Trio, Laura Gilbert, flute & Jonathan Bagg, viola in a program that includes American works for voice and […]

$30.00

Danika the Rose, with Odds Bodkin

Bass Hall, Monadnock Center for History and Culture 19 Grove St, Peterborough

Melding song and storytelling, Danika the Rose weaves together Dvorak's sublime Moravian Duets with an original fable written and narrated by Odds Bodkin, to create a musical fairytale for our tumultuous time. Featuring Jazimina MacNeil, mezzo-soprano; Sarah Shafer, soprano; pianist Emely Phelps, and renowned storyteller Odds Bodkin. This concert is generously sponsored by People's United […]

$30.00

The Sarajevo Haggadah

First Church in Jaffrey 14 Laban Ainsworth Way, Jaffrey

"Powerful music. An incredible story. Haunting images..." The Cleveland Plain Dealer. Bosnian-Dutch accordionist–composer Merima Ključo and pianist Seth Knopp perform The Sarajevo Haggadah: Music of the Book, Ključo’s riveting musical depiction of Jewish heroism through the ages in the face of violence. Performed with visual accompaniment, The Sarajevo Haggadah features original paintings digitally animated by […]

$30.00

Holiday Gala: Horszowski Trio

First Church in Jaffrey 14 Laban Ainsworth Way, Jaffrey

Electric Earth Concerts is delighted to announce its annual fundraising concert, celebrating the end of its 8th season and looking ahead to season 9! The Horszowski Trio, perpetually an EEC favorite, will be playing as only they can. Their program includes Haydn's "Gypsy Trio" in G, Hob. XV:25; Babajanian's Piano Trio; and Shostakovich's Piano Trio […]

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.

Free

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

Free

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.

Free

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.

Free

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.

Free

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.

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.

Free

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.

Free

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.

Free

The Singing Stream: A Musical Hike on the Hiroshi Loop Trail

Harris Center 83 Kings Highway, Hancock, New Hampshire

The 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.

Free

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.

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