The Craftsbury Chamber Players perform innovative works old and new on Thursday, July 18 at 7:30 PM at the Hardwick Town House in Hardwick.
The second concert of the Craftsbury Chamber Players' summer series begins with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's quartet for oboe and strings K370/368b, one of the most important works for oboe in the chamber music literature. Next is Fantasie by Bohuslav Martinu from 1944, a commissioned work featuring the theremin, a very early sound synthesizer. The instrumentation is for theremin, oboe, 2 violins, viola, cello, and piano. The first half ends with Sergei Rachmaninoff's Vocalise performed by theremin and piano. The program concludes with Johannes Brahms' deeply passionate Piano Quartet no. 3 in c minor. Opus 60.
The performers are Darryl Kubian, theremin, Andrew Adelson, oboe, JoAnna Farrer and Mary Rowell violins, Kenji Bunch, viola, Frances Rowell, cello, and Monica Ohuchi, piano.
Tickets are available at the door. Single admission – $25; Students – $10; Children 12 and under – free. Season passes also available. For information, please visit http://ccpvt.org or call 802-586-0616.
There is a FREE mini concert for children and their friends, also at the Hardwick Town House, at 2:00 PM on Thursday, July 18. The program features excerpts from the evening concert and age-appropriate discussion.