Celebrating Over 50 Years Of Extraordinary Chamber Music!!

Schedule of Events:

Opening Night

Location: The Big Barn, Putney, VT

Jonathan Harvey (1939-2012) Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco ("I Mourn the Dead, I Call the Living") (1980)

Sofia Gubaidulina (1931-2025) Rejoice! (1981)
Katherine Yoon, Dale Barltrop, Bjoerg Pas, violins; Julia Lichten, Hayk Sukiasyan, Gerard Flotats, cellos

Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Sing not to me, beautiful maiden, Op.4 No.4 (1890/93)
Lilacs, Op.21 No.5 (1900/02)
Vocalise, Op.34 No.14 (1912)
Melissa Wimbish, soprano; Gilbert Kalish, piano

Intermission
George Lentz (b.1965) from Mysterium ("Caeli enarrant..." VII) ("The Heavens are telling..." VII)
Birrung ("Stars") (1997)
Nguurraa ("Place of Belonging") (2000)

Dale Barltrop, Coco Mi, Sophie Williams, Tong Chen, Hayoung Choi, Evan Johanson, violins; Hannah Burnett, Jonathan Brown, violas; Alejandro Gomez-Pareja, Florianne Remme, cellos; Sam Suggs, double bass
Yan Liu, clarinet; Julia Hwang, violin; Tamir Naaman Pery, cello; Po-Wei Ger, piano; Matthew Boyle, percussion

THE SOUNDS OF EARTH
Live and recorded performances from The Golden Record, Voyager I & II (1977)

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Das wohltemperierte Klavier ("The Well-Tempered Clavier") II, Prelude and Fugue in C Major, BWV 870 (1742)
Sam Suggs (b.1990) Origin Jaw (2025), in response to on "Men's Chorus Songs in several voices" (New Guinea)
Travis Laplante (b.1982) Hidden Bright Lines (2025), in response to "Izlel je Delyo Hagdutin" ("Rebel Delyo the Hayduk has come out") (Bulgaria)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Cavatina from String Quartet in B-flat Major, Op.130 (1826) (For Joel Krosnick)

Julian Chan, piano
Tamir Naaman Pery, cello; Matthew Boyle, percussion
Travis Laplante, saxophone
Donald Weilerstein, Yeim Lee, violins; Jonathan Brown, viola; Christopher Ellis, cello

Cost: $40 General Admission