Electric Earth Concerts
Great Music All Year Round for the Monadnock Region
Jonathan Bagg & Laura Gilbert, Artistic Directors
The illustrious Catalyst brings their restless musicianship and razor-sharp ensemble to a program at the spacious, gracious Jaffrey Center Meetinghouse.
Schubert and Schumann at the piano, and in song This hybrid recital showcases the most characteristic and intimate works of these Romantic composers—their songs and short piano pieces. With Jesse Blumberg, baritone, and David Breitman, fortepiano LISTEN FREE OUT OF DOORS!This concert will be broadcast live to listeners outside Bring a picnic and listen under the stars! Students and […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Last Rose of Summer A Celtic music craze that gripped Europe in the time of Haydn, Beethoven & Weber produced wondrous Scottish and Irish inspired songs in a chamber setting, performed here by Fiona Gillespie, soprano with Emi Ferguson, flute & soprano and members of ACRONYM, Kivie Cahn-Lipman, Edwin Huizinga, and Elliot Figg. Enjoy a […]
Works by two great 17th century composers, Heinrich Biber and Johann Schmelzer along with modern premieres of long forgotten music make up ACRONYM’s typically fascinating and resourceful program. It concludes with two famous works of “battle” music from the Viennese baroque.
The Septet in E-flat Op 20 of Beethoven, and Brahms’ Serenade in D major Op 11, are both peak achievements from each composers’ youth. We present them on a concert that highlights the glorious sonority of winds and strings, filling the stage of the Jaffrey Meetinghouse in celebration the arrival of midsummer. The cast of […]
Electric Earth Concerts will present a mixed–media concert at the Jaffrey Meetinghouse on Sunday, August 7 at 4pm. Renaissance scholar Claire Preston and the musicians of LeStrange Viols will draw upon rich connections between literature and music to conjure a fascinating view of the 17th century English cultural landscape. Preston will place music of composers […]
ACRONYM has the uncanny ability to bring music from distant times roaring to life in front of an audience. This year's installment will consist of long-buried gems of the (mostly) German instrumental & cantata repertoire, aptly titled: "O redempta gens Mortalium" The program: Samuel Capricornus Sonata a8, A Minor Johann Rosenmuller "Aude Quid Times" (baritone, 5 […]
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