Marlboro Music’s town benefit concert this weekend
Marlboro Music presents a trio of performances this weekend, spanning three centuries of chamber music, as well as free open rehearsals throughout the week in Persons Auditorium, 2472 South Road. Co-Artistic Director Mitsuko Uchida and 27 resident musicians will take the stage across the three programs. Performances and open rehearsals will continue through Sunday, August 16.
The weekend opens on Friday, August 7 with Marlboro Music’s annual Town Benefit Concert, the proceeds from which go entirely to Marlboro town organizations. The program begins with the String Quartet in One Movement, Op. 29, by Marlboro co-founder Adolf Busch, performed by violinists Felicitas Schiffner and Itamar Zorman, violist Sally Chisholm, and cellist Elena Ariza. The evening continues with Vaughan Williams’s celebrated song cycle, “On Wenlock Edge,” for tenor and piano quintet, performed by tenor Eric Finbarr Carey, pianist Ieva Jokubaviciute, violinists Alex Redington and Angela Sin Ying Chan, violist Cara Pogossian, and cellist Dilshod Narzillaev. The program closes with Dvořák’s Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 87, B. 162, performed by Chan, pianist Juho Pohjonen, violist Beth Guterman Chu, and cellist Chase Park.
Saturday evening’s program opens with Schubert’s “Vier Gesänge aus Wilhelm Meister,” D. 877, performed by Uchida and soprano Bridget Esler, followed by Beethoven’s Piano Trio in C Minor, Op. 1, No. 3, with pianist Solomon Ge, violinist Mark Steinberg, and cellist Annie Jacobs-Perkins. After intermission, Esler returns for selections from Haydn’s vocal quartets, joined by Carey, mezzo-soprano Veronica Siebert, baritone Brandon Bell, and pianist Lydia Brown. The evening concludes with Beethoven’s string quartet in F Major, Op. 135, performed by violinists Clara Neubauer and Stephanie Zyzak, violist Cara Pogossian, and cellist Nagyeom Jang.
Sunday’s program begins with Clara Schumann’s Piano Trio in G Minor, Op. 17, performed by Pohjonen, Schiffner, and cellist Marcy Rosen. Kaija Saariaho’s “From the Grammar of Dreams,” for two sopranos, follows, performed by Esler and Lucy Fitz Gibbon. Concluding the weekend is Dvořák’s String Quintet in G Major, Op. 77, B. 49, performed by Zorman, Chisholm, Jacobs-Perkins, violinist Yebin Yoo, and double bassist Tobias Vigneau.
Tickets are $20 to $40 for Friday and Saturday evening’s concert and may be purchased at marlboromusic.org or by calling the Marlboro box office at (802) 258-9331. Sunday’s performance is sold out. A waiting list is maintained for returned tickets. For more information contact the Marlboro reception desk at (802) 254-2394 or info@marlboromusic.org.
Throughout the week, audiences are invited to enjoy free open rehearsals in Persons Auditorium. Schedules are announced at the beginning of each week and include many of the works that will be performed on the following weekend’s concerts. Admission is free, and no tickets or advance signup are needed, but please note that rehearsal schedules are subject to change.
