Electric Earth Concerts will collaborate with pianist Mihae Lee and musicians from Maine’s Sebago-Long Lake Festival on Thursday, July 18 at 7:30 p.m. at Bass Hall in the Monadnock Center for History and Culture in Peterborough to present a program of romantic and early modern music, including Antonin Dvořák’s Piano Quartet in E-Flat Major, Op. 87; Theme and Variations for Flute and Strings, Op. 80 by Amy Beach; and Igor Stravinsky’s iconic L’Histoire du Soldat (Soldier’s Tale) in his version for piano trio.
The Sebago-Long Lake Music Festival is an organization devoted to presenting and promoting high-quality chamber music performances in the Lake Region of Western Maine. Founded in 1972 by bassoonist Homer Pence and other professional musicians who summered in the region, SLLMF has grown into a well-known and popular institution. The musicians are respected professionals who come year after year because they enjoy playing chamber music together. Participating artists come from all over the country, and have, in recent years, included principal players from the Minnesota Orchestra, the Chicago, Cincinnati, Detroit, Indianapolis and Portland Symphonies, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Orpheus and St. Luke’s Chamber Orchestras and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, in addition to many well-known chamber musicians.
The concert performers include: Mihae Lee, piano, Romie de Guise-Langlois, clarinet, Min-Young Kim, violin, Keiko Tokunaga, violin, Mihai Marica, cello. They will be joined by EEC Artistic Directors Laura Gilbert, flute, and Jonathan Bagg, viola.
Composer Amy Cheney Beach, a native of Henniker, New Hampshire, was the granddaughter of Peterborough abolitionist Moses Cheney. But it is her extraordinary gifts as a composer that place her among the immortal Americans. Theme and Variations for Flute and Strings goes as far into the sound world of late romantic music as is possible.
Admission to this concert is $30 and may be purchased online at www.electricearthconcerts.org or at the door. Students may attend for free.