To close out a spectacular season, Electric Earth invites you to the season finale at First Church in Jaffrey Center.
Electric Earth Concerts’ final 2013 concert mixes romantic chamber music of Mendelssohn and Strauss with the sophisticated sound of a jazz-latin duo. “The contrast” according to Laura Gilbert, co-Artistic Director, “is meant to heighten the impact of each piece on the program, and to remind the audience of the universal qualities of interplay and intimacy that are at the heart of great chamber music, whatever the style or era. Plus we think it makes a really fun and festive finale to our season.”
The concert is being held at the First Church in Jaffrey Center on Saturday, November 16, at 7:30 pm. The program begins with vocal-bass duo Mili Bermejo and Dan Greenspan, who find a place “where jazz meets Latin with elegance and soul” according to the Boston Globe. Co-Artistic Director Jonathan Bagg says: “their intimate, sophisticated sound begins the gala evening. From there the forces expand to six, in a performance of the Sextet from Richard Strauss’ Capriccio. It’s a haunting single movement work from 1942 that showcases the supreme gifts of the world’s last great Romantic composer. Mendelssohn’s ever-fresh Octet for Strings, written when he was only 16, finishes the concert.”
In addition to Bermejo and Greenspan, performers will include Adela Pena, violin, formerly of the Eroica Trio; Lilit Gampel, violin; plus Electric Earth regulars Elizabeth Anderson, cello, and Jonathan Bagg, viola, with others TBA.
Laura Gilbert says: “This event culminates a season that included the complete cycle of Beethoven Quartets given by the Borromeo Quartet, a cabaret evening with rising star Jennifer Sheehan, Met Opera newcomer Jennifer Johnson Cano, the brilliant Horszowski Trio, to name just a few of our offerings this year. We are full-steam ahead planning next year, and can already promise the return of the Borromeo Quartet for a Bartok quartet cycle, phenomenal Swiss pianist Olivier Cave and another cabaret night with Jennifer Sheehan. But that’s only the beginning!”
