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Mohawk Trail Concerts, Extraordinary Music Since 1970, Arnold Black, Founder. Ruth M. Black and Abba Bogin, Artistic Directors.

Location: Concerts at the Federated Church, Charlemont, MA
Friday concerts are at 7:00 pm. Saturdays at 7:30 pm.
A reception for the audience to meet the artists follows each Saturday concert in the Church

 

Thank you all for a great 2010 season
Please save weekends in July 2011 for our 42nd Summer Festival
Final details in preparation will be posted as soon as available

42nd Summer Festival - Music `Old & New with Legacy of Liszt

Mohawk Trail Concerts at the Charlemont Federated Church

July 1/2

Astrid Schween, cello, with pianist Estela Olevsky, Beethoven/Mozart, Variations Wo0 46; Liszt, Elegie
 and La Lugubre Gondola; Mahler/Ruckert lieder transcription; and Green, piece for electronic cello & tape
with composer Gordon Green. Nigel Coxe, piano, plays Grainger selected solos and duos 
including Lincolnshire Posy, with Estela Olevsky.

 

July 3 - WINDS O'ER THE WATER

There is an Independence Day Free Family Celebration Concert outdoors - on Sunday July 3rd at 2:00 pm,
to take place on the riverbank by Charlemont's Long Bridge and Route 8A. Musicians will be on the land,
audience can also be there or on the water in kayaks, tubes, boats etc. WINDS O'ER THE WATER
will be for about an hour with music performed by a wind quintet ( flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon) 
playing mostly American music and/or music related to the water including selections from Handel's Water music, 
Gershwin tunes, by Sousa, and some shanties. The Charlemont Federated Church is the inclement weather venue.

    

July 8/9

Estela Olevsky, piano lieder transcriptions, Liszt/Chopin, Liszt/Schumann; Lucy Shelton
with pianist Abba Bogin, Schubert Die Forelle, followed by Abba Bogin, piano,
Masako Yanagita, violin, Ron Gorevic, viola, Mark Fraser, cello,
Salvatore Macchia, bass; Schubert Piano Quintet D.667 Die Forelle (The Trout)

 

July 15/16

William Bolcom, composer/pianist, Joan Morris, mezzo-soprano. Songs from theatre, film, and cabaret.
Special Guest, Lucas Wong, piano plays Bolcom compositions including Pulitzer prize award Études,
Bagatelles, View from the Bridge opera aria/ transcription, Rags.

  

July 22/23


Melodious Accord singers; Alice Parker, composer/ conductor, Abba Bogin piano,scenes from
  Ponder Heart; Estela Olevsky, piano, Liszt/ Verdi Rigoletto Quartet piano transcription;
Melodious Accord. Estela Olevsky, Abba Bogin, Brahms, Liebeslieder Waltzes.

 

July 29/30

La Belle Alliance, (Tessa Petersen, violin & John Van Buskirk, piano), Liszt, Hungarian Rhapsody XII, 
Zweite Elegie (1887/88), Fauré, Élegie Op.24; John Van Buskirk, piano, Liszt, from
Transcendental Études (1852);Schoenberg, Phantasy Op.47;John Van Buskirk, piano,
Tessa Petersen, violin, Masako Yanagita, viola, Volcy Pelletier, cello, Fauré,
Piano Quartet in c minor, Op.15.

We look forward to bringing this 42cd season to newcomers and our loyal, appreciative audience.


Friday concerts are at 7:00 pm. Saturdays at 7:30 pm.
Information and further details appear on this website,
www.mohawktrailconcerts.org  as soon as it is available.
Contact : the MTC office, 413 625-9511

2010 SUMMER FESTIVAL PROGRAM

Mohawk Trail Concerts 41st Season Program

American Masterpieces - Three centuries of American Genius
The Legacy of Chamber Music with Chopin & Schumann, 200th, Albeniz 150th Anniversaries

     

July 2/3, 2010

Dover Beach, baritone & string quartet (1931) - Samuel Barber/Arnold
Quartet - Op.47 (1842). piano & strings - Schumann
Quartet - K. 493 for piano & strings - Mozart
David McFerrin, baritone. Abba Bogin, piano.
Elizabeth Chang, Masako Yanagita, violin, Ronald Gorevic, viola, Mark Fraser, cello

  

July 4, 2010

July 4th at 4:00 pm FREE FAMILY CONCERT - AN AMERICAN MUSIC HOUR
Featuring All Charlemont Performers
Yanagita/ Bogin, Violin & Piano Duo, Charlotte Dewey, soprano & Jim Ballard, piano
Small Change, Acoustic Swing Band, with guest John Clark, horn.

    July 9/10. 2010

William Bolcom, composer, pianist and Joan Morris, mezzo-soprano
A CAVALCADE OF AMERICAN CLASSICS
Film, Theater and Cabaret
from
Ragtime to Rock'nRoll
Special Guests - Duo Parnas,
Madalyn Parnas,violin;Cicely Parnas,cello
play Suite for Violin & Cello - Bolcom

 

July 16/17. 2010

DUOJALAL - Kathryn Lockwood, viola, Yousif Sheronick, percussion
Meet Composer, Kenji Bunch on Friday July 16th only
5:00 pm at Mocha Maya's Shelburne Falls and Federated Church concert.

Klezmer à la Bechet, Krakauer; Thracian Sketches, Bermel;
Première, Lost and Found - Kenji Bunch;
Duo for Viola & Percussion - Glass; A Different World, Rao;
Trio (1914) Ravel.
Estela Olevsky, piano; Masako Yanagita, violin; Pitnarry Shin, cello

   

July 23/24, 2010


Selections by Isaac Albeniz
from Recuerdos de viaje
Rumores de la Caleta, malagueña
España: seis hojas de album - Tango
Cantos de España - Preludio
Suite española - Sevilla, sevillanas

Raritan Triptych, for Guitar Duo; Snapshot Vince & Jan, for String Quartet - Paul Moravec
Laments and Dances from the Irish - Arnold Black, paired with memoir stories from Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
Michael Newman & Laura Oltman, Guitar Duo. Vincent Dowling, narrator,
Carole Cowan, Masako Yanagita, violins; Ronald Gorevic, viola, Volcy Pelletier, cello

 

July 30/31, 2010

Frédéric Chopin - Voice of Poland

Piano Solos
Waltz in F Major, Op.34 No.3; Nocturne in D Flat Major, Op.27 No.2;
Mazurka in C Sharp minor, Op.50 No.3; Scherzo in E Major, Op.54 No.4
Songs, Op.74
Polonaise brilliante, Op.3 for cello & piano
Songs - Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello ( 1904/5 rev.1911) - Charles Ives
Anne Koscielny, and Estela Olevsky, piano; Maria Ferrante,soprano;
Masako Yanagita, violin; Pitnarry Shin, cello.


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