Electric Earth Concerts
Great Music All Year Round for the Monadnock Region
Jonathan Bagg & Laura Gilbert, Artistic Directors
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.
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.
Virtuoso violinist of the Vienna Piano Trio devotes an evening to some of the greatest music in the repertoire. (This concert has been canceled.)
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Artistic Directors Laura Gilbert & Jonathan Bagg are again joined by pianist Mimi Solomon for wide ranging program of 20th & 21st century works. David Sanford’s “Klatka Still” for flute and piano was inspired by 70s jazz-rock group “Blood, Sweat & Tears”; Stephen Jaffe’s “Four Pieces Quasi Sonata” also has pop-inspired elements. Russian composer Tatiana […]
We are especially excited to present Spiritual Voices, originally part of our 2020 NEA funded "Changing the Conversation" series. In recognition of Juneteenth 2021, we have created a video that brings this wonderful music to you.This concert presents a major work of Olly Wilson (1937-2018): “A City Called Heaven” for large ensemble. Also on the program is “Grist for […]
EEC’s first in-person concert in over a year celebrates summer solstice with the return of live music. The program features Conference of the Birds, a quartet with narrator by 2021 GRAMMY winning composer Christopher Theofanidis and poet Melissa Studdard that was inspired by the Persian poem which chronicles the quest of the world’s birds to […]
Birds are symbols of hope and renewal, heralds of spring, and a physical manifestation of freedom. EEC and the Harris Center continue their collaboration with a musical walk, In Fine Feather, in which hikers download and enjoy a selection of poetry, music, and mythology inspired by the return of birds each spring. Details of the event, which is […]
As the sixth generation of his family to bear the title Araki Kodo, Hanz (short for Hanzaburo, his great-great-grandfather’s name) first worked to master the Japanese end-blown bamboo flute. A master of both traditional Japanese flute and Irish traditional, Araki brings virtuosity without borders to this July 4 homage to music’s power to transcend even the greatest […]
This concert is sold out. Outdoor seating is still available for FREE!The Horszowski Trio, among our most popular artists, make their annual appearance with a program of great music for piano trio. Hailed by The New York Times as “impressive, lithe, persuasive,” The New Yorker calls them "the most compelling American group to come on the […]
We regret that seating for this concert is limited due to pandemic rules that are still in place. However, we remind you that if the weather is good, free outdoor listening is possible on the lawn directly in from the the Monadnock Center (Grove Street Side). One of Boston’s freshest and most compelling chamber ensembles […]
One of America’s premier exponents of the historical piano brings his characteristic mix of intellect, virtuosity and poetry to a program of classical repertoire. Breitman performed Schubert’s song cycle, Winterreise with baritone Thomas Meglioranza for EEC in 2019, and was acclaimed baritone Sanford Sylvan’s long-time collaborator. Breitman directs the Historical Performance Program at Oberlin’s Conservatory […]
The virtuoso violinist of the Vienna Piano Trio won both the 2012 European Young Concert Artists Auditions and was Silver Medalist at the Klein International Competition. “… a violinist of mature musicality and deep understanding of his repertoire…” Musik Heute. This afternoon we hear some of the finest work in the repertoire: two Solo Partitas […]
Franz Schubert’s revered Quintet in C major for Strings with two cellos has never been performed at Electric Earth Concerts—until now. One of the most popular and powerful works of string chamber music in the repertoire, Schubert's final, posthumously published Quintet will be the single work on the program. Performed by David McCarroll and Gabriela Diaz, violins; Jonathan Bagg […]
The Auréole Trio returns to offer a concert of consolation and celebration. The world-renowned chamber ensemble was founded by Artistic Director and flutist Laura Gilbert, with violist Mary Hammann and Stacey Shames, harp. They will be joined by soprano Ilana Davidson in an exhilarating program that ranges from Monteverdi to Lennon & McCartney.Monteverdi: Pur ti […]
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