Tanglewood Linde Center | Lenox, MA

Featuring Grammy award-winning tenor Nicholas Phan, this program explores our country’s rich legacy of protest songs. Repertoire includes traditional songs of protest and music inspired by social movements and historical events, including Nico Muhly’s Stranger, Akenya Seymour’s Fear the Lamb, and a new commission by Errollyn Wallen. Spanning genres, eras, and movements, A Change Is Gonna Come provokes conversation, confronts our past and present, and celebrates the act of protest as one of our most precious rights.

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Boston, MA

Featuring Grammy award-winning tenor Nicholas Phan, this program explores our country’s rich legacy of protest songs. Repertoire includes traditional songs of protest and music inspired by social movements and historical events, including Nico Muhly’s Stranger, Akenya Seymour’s Fear the Lamb, and a new commission by Errollyn Wallen. Spanning genres, eras, and movements, A Change Is Gonna Come provokes conversation, confronts our past and present, and celebrates the act of protest as one of our most precious rights.

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Music in the Barn | Tiverton, RI

Featuring Grammy award-winning tenor Nicholas Phan, this program explores our country’s rich legacy of protest songs. Repertoire includes traditional songs of protest and music inspired by social movements and historical events, including Nico Muhly’s Stranger, Akenya Seymour’s Fear the Lamb, and a new commission by Errollyn Wallen. Spanning genres, eras, and movements, A Change Is Gonna Come provokes conversation, confronts our past and present, and celebrates the act of protest as one of our most precious rights.

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Program

Dmitri Shostakovich: 3 Duets for 2 Violins and Piano, Op. 97d
I. Preludium
II. Gavotte
III. Waltzes

Frank Bridge: Phantasy for Piano Quartet, H.94
I. Andante con moto
II. Allegro vivace
III. Andante con moto 

Sergei Prokofiev: Sonata for 2 Violins, Op. 56
I. Andante cantabile
II. Allegro
III. Commodo (quasi allegretto)
IV. Allegro con brio

-intermission-

Gabriel Fauré: Piano Quartet No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 15
I. Allegro molto moderato
II. Scherzo: Allegro vivo
III. Adagio
IV. Allegro molto

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Claude Debussy: Danse sacrée et danse profane
I. Danse sacrée
II. Danse profane 

Claude Debussy: Claire de Lune (arr. by Philip Setzer and Nancy Allen) 

Philip Setzer: Elegy for violin and harp 

Sarah Kirkland Snider: Drink the Wild Ayre (World Premiere of New Version for harp and ensemble)

-intermission-

Edward Elgar: Piano Quintet in A minor, Op. 84
I. Moderato  – Allegro
II. Adagio
III. Andante  – Allegro

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Clara Wieck Schumann: 3 Romances, Op. 22
I. Andante molto
II. Allegretto: Mit zartem Vortrage
III. Leidenschaftlich schnell 

Rebecca Clarke: Lullaby, from 2 Pieces for Viola (or Violin) and Cello 

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: 4 African Dances, Op. 58 

Florence Price: Piano Quintet No. 2 in A minor
I. Allegro non troppo
II. Andante con moto
III. Juba. Allegro
IV. Scherzo. Allegro – Coda 

George Walker: Lyric for Strings

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Johannes Brahms: Hungarian Dances for Piano Four hands, WoO 1
V. Allegro
VI. Vivace 

Sergei Rachmaninov: Trio élégiaque No. 1 in G minor
Lento Lugubre 

Robert Schumann: Piano Quartet in E-flat major, Op. 47
I. Sostenuto assai — Allegro ma non troppo
II. Scherzo. Molto vivace
III. Andante cantabile
IV. Finale. Vivace

-intermission-

Felix Mendelssohn: String Quintet No. 2 in B-flat, Op. 87
I. Allegro vivace
II. Andante scherzando
III. Adagio e lento
IV. Allegro molto vivace

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Great Barrington, MA

Performing Bach Sonata No. 1 in G-minor, Telemann: Concerto for 4 Violins in G major TWV 40:201, Barber: Adagio for Strings, and Felix Mendelssohn: String Quintet No. 2 in B-flat, Op. 87

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Dorset, VT

Performing Mendelssohn Viola Quintet in Bb Op. 87

Bennington Museum | Bennington, VT

Performing Bach Violin Sonata No. 1 in G-minor and Telemann Concerto for 4 Violins in G major TWV 40:201

Get up closer and personal with Artistic Director Philip Setzer as he introduces Manchester Music Festival 50th Anniversary programming with Young Artists Class of 2024 in a program of solo works. Featuring special guest Shawn Harrington, Curator of the Manchester Historical Society.

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Sun. May 26, 2024 at 3 PM | Chatham, MA

Join us for the finale of the Sandbar chamber series with the music of Frank Bridge and Schoenberg.

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Sunday, April 28th, 2024 3:00 PM | Pilgrim Congregational Church in Chatham, MA

Composer Oliver Caplan presents a world premiere on the legacy of John F. Kennedy, in a collaborative concert with the JFK Museum in Hyannis. CCCO Principal Cellist Tim Paek is featured on Schumann’s Cello Concerto, as Dvorak’s American & Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings fills the program.

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April 11th, 2024 at 2 pm | Boston Public Library, Boston MA

Bree Fotheringham, Violin

Kyle Orth, Piano

Program

William Grant Still Suite for Violin and Piano

Manuel Ponce Estrelitta (My Little Star)

Amy Beach Sonata for Violin and Piano in A Minor, Op. 34

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March 10, 2024 at 4 pm | Edgewood Music Committee Concert, North Andover, MA

Program:

Philip Glass Piano Etude No. 1

Jenny Lin, piano

Salvatore Sciarrino De La Nuit for solo piano

Hang Zhong, Piano

Paul Wiancko Microsuite for solo cello

Dylan Kinneavy, Cello

Manuel Ponce arr. Heifetz Estrellita for violin and piano

Bree Fotheringham, Violin

Jenny Lin, Piano

Mozart Piano Trio in B-flat Major K. 502

I. Allegro

II. Larghetto

III. Allegretto

Bree Fotheringham, Violin

Dylan Kinneavy, Cello

Hang Zhong, Piano

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March 9, 2024 at 7:30 pm | Orchard Cove, Canton, MA

Program:

Philip Glass Piano Etude No. 1

Jenny Lin, piano

Salvatore Sciarrino De La Nuit for solo piano

Hang Zhong, Piano

Paul Wiancko Microsuite for solo cello

Dylan Kinneavy, Cello

Manuel Ponce arr. Heifetz Estrellita for violin and piano

Bree Fotheringham, Violin

Jenny Lin, Piano

Mozart Piano Trio in B-flat Major K. 502

I. Allegro

II. Larghetto

III. Allegretto

Bree Fotheringham, Violin

Dylan Kinneavy, Cello

Hang Zhong, Piano

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March 9, 2024 at 2pm | Newbridge on the Charles, Dedham, MA

Program:

Philip Glass Piano Etude No. 1

Jenny Lin, piano

Salvatore Sciarrino De La Nuit for solo piano

Hang Zhong, Piano

Paul Wiancko Microsuite for solo cello

Dylan Kinneavy, Cello

Manuel Ponce arr. Heifetz Estrellita for violin and piano

Bree Fotheringham, Violin

Jenny Lin, Piano

Mozart Piano Trio in B-flat Major K. 502

I. Allegro

II. Larghetto

III. Allegretto

Bree Fotheringham, Violin

Dylan Kinneavy, Cello

Hang Zhong, Piano

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Sun Mar 3, 2024 3:00 PM | Pilgrim Congregational Church in Chatham, MA

Join us for an afternoon of Vivaldi, Corelli, Bach and Astor Piazzolla’s Four Seasons of Buenos Aires featuring our CCCO string players.

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Tuesday, February 6, 2024 at 6 pm | Custom House in Portland, ME

the evening will feature a performance by Palaver Strings in the beautiful and historic Portland Custom House followed by a community dance party led by DJ, Lucy Dhegrae and Curbside Queens.

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Rockport, ME at Rockport Opera House | Saturday, January 27, 2024 at 7 pm

Noisefloor is a unique collaboration between Palaver Strings and the contemporary dance company little house dance, presented by Portland Ovations and State Theatre. In this interdisciplinary performance, twelve musicians and seven dancers join forces, premiering a new composition by Courtney Swain written specifically for choreography by Heather Stewart. This project seamlessly integrates the media of music and dance, involving dancers in the composition process and including musicians in little house’s movement language. Noisefloor plays with the subjectivity of human experience, including visual and auditory perception and the logic of dreams. Musicians and dancers will move throughout the stage and surrounding areas, expanding the audience’s audiovisual field and guiding their attention through the use of mobile light sources attached to their bodies. Noisefloor is an immersive physical, visual, and musical experience.

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Camden, NJ at Gordon Theater | January 13, 2024 at 6 PM

Jessie Montgomery: Records from a Vanishing City
Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 26, G minor
Beethoven: Symphony No. 4, Op. 60, B-flat major

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Sun Dec 17, 2023 3:00 PM | Pilgrim Congregational Church in Chatham, MA

Program:

Cody Forrest: Refuge

W. A. Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante

Jean Huang, violin - Sam Kelder, viola

R. V. Williams: Variations on Dives & Lazarus 

Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 80 in D minor

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Portland, ME at State Theatre | Thursday, December 7, 2023 at 7 pm

Noisefloor is a unique collaboration between Palaver Strings and the contemporary dance company little house dance, presented by Portland Ovations and State Theatre. In this interdisciplinary performance, twelve musicians and seven dancers join forces, premiering a new composition by Courtney Swain written specifically for choreography by Heather Stewart. This project seamlessly integrates the media of music and dance, involving dancers in the composition process and including musicians in little house’s movement language. Noisefloor plays with the subjectivity of human experience, including visual and auditory perception and the logic of dreams. Musicians and dancers will move throughout the stage and surrounding areas, expanding the audience’s audiovisual field and guiding their attention through the use of mobile light sources attached to their bodies. Noisefloor is an immersive physical, visual, and musical experience.

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Portland, ME at State Theatre | Wednesday, December 6, 2023 at 7 pm

Noisefloor is a unique collaboration between Palaver Strings and the contemporary dance company little house dance, presented by Portland Ovations and State Theatre. In this interdisciplinary performance, twelve musicians and seven dancers join forces, premiering a new composition by Courtney Swain written specifically for choreography by Heather Stewart. This project seamlessly integrates the media of music and dance, involving dancers in the composition process and including musicians in little house’s movement language. Noisefloor plays with the subjectivity of human experience, including visual and auditory perception and the logic of dreams. Musicians and dancers will move throughout the stage and surrounding areas, expanding the audience’s audiovisual field and guiding their attention through the use of mobile light sources attached to their bodies. Noisefloor is an immersive physical, visual, and musical experience.

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Longy School of Music, Pickman Hall in Cambridge, MA | 9/29/2023 Time TBD

Palaver Strings

Sun Sep 17, 2023 3:00 PM | Pilgrim Congregational Church in Chatham, MA

Program:

Frank Bridge: Two Folk Songs

Cherry Ripe & Sally in the Alley

Arvo Pärt: Cantus in Memoriam of Benjamin Britten

Britten: Variations on a Theme by Frank Bridge

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Sunday, August 20 | 7 PM | Tent at Camden Public Library Amphitheatre

NICHOLAS PHAN, tenor

JESSE BLUMBERG, baritone

GABRIEL KAHANE, singer songwriter

KENYATTA EMMANUEL, singer songwriter

JAMES AUSTIN SMITH, oboe

JOHN MCKEAN, harpsichord

PALAVER STRINGS

PROGRAM

GABRIEL KAHANE Little Love

J.S. BACH Ich Habe Genug BWV 82

NICO MUHLY Stranger

KENYATTA EMMANUEL Holding Out Hope

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Saturday, August 19 | 10AM | Tent at Camden Public Library Amphitheatre

JOHN MCKEAN, host and harpsichord

JULIETTA CURENTON, flute

JESSE BLUMBERG, baritone

PALAVER STRINGS

PROGRAM

BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 5

BACH A selection of vocal pieces

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