Summer of Concerts: Week of July 24

July 26: Wintergreen Music Festival - Worldly Romance

Join us for a musical tour through the minds of three composers as we travel to France, Germany, and the former Czechoslovakia. In three masterpieces of chamber music, you’ll hear Gabriel Fauré’s Piano Trio in D Minor (rarely heard in this original instrumentation), Robert Schumann’s ingenious and stirring piano quartet, and Antonín Dvořák’s colorful and mighty Serenade for winds.

Featuring Festival Artists: Charles Messersmith, clarinet; Wes Baldwin, cello; Jason Wirth, piano; Elisabeth Adkins, violin; Kathy Kang Litton, viola; David Bjella, cello; Eddie Newman, piano; Paul Leuders & Bill Parrish, oboe; John Sadak & Joe Beverly, clarinets; Tom Schneider & Chris Jewell, bassoon; Marty Gordon, contrabassoon; Jacob Wilder, Brandon Nichols & Michael Hall horn; Sarah Kapps, cello; Patricia Weitzel, bass

Concert Program:

Gabriel Fauré: Piano Trio in D Minor, op. 120

I. Allegro ma non troppo 

II. Andantino

III. Allegro vivo

Robert Schumann: Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, op. 47

I. Sostenuto assai – Allegro ma non troppo 

II. Scherzo: Molto vivace – Trio I – Trio II

III. Andante cantabile

IV. Finale: Vivace

intermission

Antonín Dvořák: Serenade for winds, cello, and double bass in D Minor, op. 44, B. 77

I. Moderato, quasi marcia 

II. Minuetto. Tempo di minuetto

III. Andante con moto

IV. Finale. Allegro molto

July 27, 29: Wolf Trap - Gounod's Faust

Based on Goethe’s play, Gounod’s opera asks if the freedom of youth is worth an eternity in hell. It is to the aging Faust, who makes a pact with Méphistophélès to exchange his soul for another chance for youth and love. With his youth restored, Faust woos the lovely Marguerite; but Faust soon realizes his salvation is tragically bound to others, including those he loves most.

Gounod’s popular masterpiece explodes with memorable music, arias, trios and gripping scenes which will amaze as only a live performance can.

A free pre-performance lecture will take place one hour before curtain in The Barns.

July 27: Wintergreen Music Festival - An Evening Serenade with Tchaikovsky & Coleridge Taylor

Featured Festival Artists: John Meisner, Jim Lyon, Ross Monroe Winter & Milene Moreira, violins; Steve Larson & Kathy Kang Litton, viola; Wes Baldwin & Hannah Holman, cello; Dee Moses, bass

Concert Program includes Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: 4 Novelletten for strings, op. 52, Tchaikovsky: Serenade for strings in C Major, op. 48, and a side-by-side performance with Festival Artists & 2023 LEAD Cooperative musicians & conductors

Cocktail (half) hour at 6:00 pm

July 29, 30: Wintergreen Music Festival - Season Finale – “A New World” with Andrew Litton

We finish the 2023 season with Dvořák’s stirring ninth symphony, subtitled “From the New World” led by guest conductor Andrew Litton of the New York City Ballet. Perfectly paired with the world premiere of Daron Hagen’s Film Noir, an Electric Guitar Concerto (Co-Commissioned by Wintergreen Music) that celebrates the instrument’s role in breezy road movies, smoky torch ballads, cool sixties spy flicks, and soaring romantic film scores." With a vibrant, strong, and colorful opening piece by Lili Boulanger, this concert brings the season to a celebratory and triumphant conclusion!

Concert Program:

Lili Boulanger: D’un matin de printemps

Daron Hagen: Film Noir: Concerto for Electric Guitar and Orchestra*

Pacific Coast Highway

Torch Song

You Should See the Other Guy

Maybe Not Today . . .

D.J. Sparr, electric guitar

intermission

Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 in E Minor (“From the New World”)

I. Adagio – Allegro molto 

II. Largo

III. Scherzo: Molto vivace

IV. Finale: Allegro