Come enjoy an evening of chamber music performed at the highest level, featuring masterworks by well-loved composers alongside less-familiar works from the Classical era through present day. Concerts at the Hardwick Town House, Thursdays, 7:30 pm.

The Craftsbury Chamber Players is a partnership of musicians and community dedicated to making live chamber music an enduring part of our culture. Our distinct role is described by Music Director Fran Rowell in three words: heritage, tradition and connections.

Over two dozen local libraries have season passes available for checkout. Participating libraries include: Woodbury Community Library, Pope Memorial Library (Danville), Brainerd Library (on Joe's Pond) Peacham Library, Cobleigh Public Library (Lyndonville), Kellogg-Hubbard Library (Montpelier), St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, Glover Public Library, Leach Public Library (Irasburg), Barton Public Library, Cabot Public Library, Morristown Centennial Library, Johnson Public Library, Lanpher Memorial Library (Hyde Park), Glee Merritt Kelley Library (Wolcott), Albany Public Library, Goodrich Memorial Library (Newport), Jeudevine Memorial Library (Hardwick), Greensboro Free Library, Craftsbury Public Library, John Woodruff Simpson Memorial Library (East Craftsbury), Hitchcock Memorial Library and Museum (Westfield), Jones Memorial Library (Orleans), Rand Memorial Library (North Troy), and Aldrich Public Library (Barre).

This week's concert, 7/20, 7:30 pm, Hardwick Town House:

The program opens with César Franck's Sonata in A Major for violin and piano, and is followed by two remarkable string octets: first, "the still, small voice" by Kenji Bunch – a response to Walt Whitman's poem, "Election Day, November 1884" – and then Felix Mendelssohn's Octet in E-Flat Major, op. 2.

Performers are Monica Ohuchi, piano; Katherine Winterstein, Jessica Gehring, Mary Rowell, and Jade Schoolcraft, violins; Kenji Bunch and Matthew Ryan, violas; and Victoria Lin and Frances Rowell, cello.

There is a FREE mini concert for children and their friends, also at the Hardwick Town House, at 2:00 PM on Thursday, July 20. The program features excerpts from the evening concert and age-appropriate discussion.

Learn more at www.craftsburychamberplayers.org, or call toll-free: 1-(800)-639-3443.

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