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August 2, 2007
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Classical dog days It’s the off-season, but there’s still plenty of classical music in the area if you know where to stop, look, and listen. • So much so close: Monadnock Music fills most of August with a wide range of classical music played by some of top names in the business. We’re lucky to have this festival so close to us —the main venue (the Peterborough Town House) is just an hour to the west on Route 101. Thursday, Aug. 2 at 4:30 p.m. finds pianist Virginia Eskin tackling an ambitious recital at the Peterborough Town Hall. Dubbed “Sonatas Small, Medium, and Large,” the program includes Chopin’s B minor sonata and other works. It’s a great chance to hear keyboard music played live (as it was meant to be) and up close and personal. Tickets are $18. Saturday, Aug. 4 sees a “double concert” of two performances at the Town Hall for one ticket. At 4 p.m., the resident ensemble Second Instrumental Unit runs through an eclectic list of small-scale works, followed at 8 p.m. by festival music director James Bolle leading Haydn’s Symphony No. 90, Mozart’s Sinfonie Concertante in E flat with Gerald Itzkoff on violin and Jonathan Bagg on viola, and Mozart’s masterful Symphony No. 40 in G minor. It’s Bolle’s last year as music director of the festival, which he founded back in the 1960s. Tickets are $19 to $30. For more info, visit monadnockmusic.org or call 800-868-9613. • Free concerts: Monadnock Music’s series of free concerts continues through August with chamber music at churches and town halls in the state’s scenic southwest corner. Programs vary, but it’s mostly classics with a few contemporary pieces thrown in. Upcoming dates include Thursday, Aug. 2 at the Walpole Unitarian Church at 8 p.m.; Friday, Aug. 3 at 8 p.m. at the Deering Community Church; Friday, Aug. 3 at 8 p.m. at the Sullivan United Congregational Church; Wednesday, Aug. 8 at 8 p.m. at Peterborough All Saints Episcopal Church (a harpsichord recital); Thursday, Aug. 9 at 8 p.m. at Washington Congregation Church; Thursday, Aug. 9 at 8 p.m. at Wilton Center Unitarian Church; Saturday, Aug. 11 at 8 p.m. at Marlow Town Hall; Sunday, Aug. 12 at 4 p.m. at Jaffrey Center Meetinghouse; Wednesday, Aug. 15 at 8 p.m. at Temple Community Church; Thursday, Aug. 16 at 8 p.m. at Nelson Congregational Church; Friday, Aug. 17 at 8 p.m. at Pierce Hall in Franklin Pierce College in Rindge. • Do-it-yourself Requiem: The annual “Summer Sings” program of the Nashua Symphony Chorus continues on Monday, Aug. 6 at 7:30 p.m. when conductor Josh Nannestad lead members of the chorus and any other interested singers in Faure’s Requiem. Nannestad is Director of Music at First Parish, United Church of Westwood, Mass. and Director for the Milford High School Choir of Milford, Mass. Scott White will accompany on piano. The sessions, open to anyone, are held at Nashua’s Christian Science Church, 115 Concord St. For $7, you get a score to sing from, a conductor to lead you, and a pianist to play along as you sing through the evening’s masterpiece. The rest of the schedule: Monday, Aug. 20 with Diane Cushing conducting Shaker Songs; and then on Monday, Aug. 27 another dose of Shaker Songs under Cushing to round things out. Go to nashuasymphony.org or call 595-5196.
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6/28/2007 For music, go north
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