Little Chamber Music's Friends and Family Concert Series brings serene new sounds to Mountain View Cemetery, August 12 to 14
Blueridge Chamber Music’s Schubertiade, a site-specific Jordan Nobles premiere, and much more
Little Chamber Music presents the Friends and Family Concert Series from August 12 to 14
A MESMERIZING and eclectic array of live music will fill the air in Mountain View Cemetery this weekend, as Little Chamber Music kicks off its season with some of its closest collaborators. And did we mention it’s all free?
The Friends and Family at Mountain View Cemetery concert series opens August 12 at 7:30 pm in the exquisite Celebration Hall with Blueridge Chamber Music’s unique Schubertiade—paying tribute to Franz Schubert’s 225th birthday with a 21st-century update to the salons of music and poetry that the composer once famously hosted.
The following afternoon, Saturday at 2:30 pm, head outdoors to the Masonic Section of the cemetery, where 20 musicians will be playing Redshift Music’s exciting new site-specific work by composer Jordan Nobles. Called “Pneuma”, which translates as “breath”, the piece makes a sonic exploration of presence and the state of being in the moment.
That same evening, at 7:30 pm back in the Celebration Hall, Duo Inquietum (with Liam Hockley on clarinets and Mark Takeshi McGregoron flutes) presents Karlheinz Stockhausen’s iconic Tierkreis. Also on the program: four newly commissioned works by Canadian composers Annette Brosin, Wolf Edwards, Anna Pidgorna, and Hiroki Tsurumoto.
The weekend wraps Sunday at 7:30 pm, with acclaimed violinist Cameron Wilson improvising with pianist Chris Gestrin on familiar tunes in the styles of composers from Chick Corea to Arvo Pärt to Randy Bachman.
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