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November 8, 2007
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Fingerprints, please After a brief lull, the local classical scene snaps back to life this weekend with a minor avalanche of performances. Here’s a run-down of what’s up. • Sister act: New music and art songs are among the offerings at a pair of performances this weekend by the Nashua Chamber Orchestra. The new piece is the East Coast premiere of “Convocation,” a work written in 2001 by San Francisco violist and composer Katrina Wreede, whose work I don’t know. But her Web site (katrinawreede.com) describes her as as “a concert soloist, a belly dancer, a police fingerprinter, a non-denominational wedding officiant, a player of Tango Nuevo, Persian and Central European, and Roma (gypsy) music as well as a composer for soloists, chamber ensembles, orchestras, film, and dance...” In other words, she’s a hot ticket. “Convocation” features “restless energy and driving rhythms,” according to an orchestra press release, but any music composed by someone who does police fingerprinting on the side shouldn’t be dull. The program, led by music director David Feltner, includes two concert arias sung by soprano Lisa Feltner, the conductor’s sister. They picked two good ones: Schubert’s Salve Regina and Mozart’s Nehmt meinen Dank. You also get the rarely heard Sinfonietta from 1934 by French composer Albert Roussel and then the familiar Beethoven Symphony No. 1 in C major, a light work that sounds like a curtain-raiser for later, stormier works by the big bad Bonn native. Performances are Saturday, Nov. 10, at 8 p.m. at Daniel Webster College’s Collings Auditorium and Sunday, Nov. 11, at 3 p.m. at Milford Town Hall. Tickets at the door cost $15 for adults, $13 for seniors, $8 for students. Children under 12 get in free. Visit nco-music.org or call 554-6164. • Road trip: The Granite State Symphony takes its show on the road this weekend, though the distance is just a few blocks. For an “Organ and Orchestra” performance on Saturday, Nov. 10, the group will forsake its usual venue, Concord City Auditorium, for South Congregational Church, 27 Pleasant St., where a good old church organ will play a major role in the program, to be led by Robert C. Babb. Among the works: Organ Concerto No. 2 in G minor by Josef Rheinberger, as well as music by Mozart, LeClair, and Albinoni. Soloist in the organ work is Mark Frazier, the church’s director of music. The concert is Saturday, Nov. 10, at 8 p.m.; tickets are $22 each for open seating. Visit gsso.org or call 226-4776. • Opera on the way: On Sunday, Nov. 11, Granite State Opera will perform Donizetti’s classic tragedy “Lucia di Lammamoor” at the Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord. (The opera will also be performed on Thursday, Nov. 9, at the Portsmouth Music Hall in Portsmouth.) Among other attractions, “Lucia” has the opera world’s most famous “woman goes mad” scene. For his “Lucia,” Granite State artistic director Philip Lauriat has assembled a powerhouse cast of leads rounded out by a strong cast of local vocal talent. “Lucia di Lammamoor” will be staged on Friday, Nov. 9, at 8 p.m. at the Music Hall in Portsmouth and on Sunday, Nov. 11, at 2 p.m. at the Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord. Tickets cost $19 to $72 with group, senior, and student discounts available. Call the Capitol Center for the Arts at 225-1111 or visit www.granitestateopera.org.
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