Mark Twain's Domain

Music and the River
Saturday, November 5, 2011 at 8 pm
Chappaqua Library Auditorium
195 South Greeley Avenue, Chappaqua, NY

A multi-media tribute to Mark Twain on the 100th anniversary of his death.  The Chappaqua Orchestra will perform Virgil Thomson's epic score simultaneously with the Depression era film The River.  The River film is still very relevant today as Twain's inspiration the Mississippi River continues to flood and cause turmoil throughout the center of our country.  The orchestra will also perform Charles Ives' gorgeous tone poem The Housatonic at Stockbridge and beloved vocal excerpts from Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein's Show Boat. Twain and Ives met through Ives' father-in-law the Reverend Joseph Twichell of Hartford, Connecticut.  Twain's witticisms about the young Ives will be recounted by William Gerrard, who will also provide the narration for The River.  Audience favorite Deborah Horne, soprano, and bass baritone, John Dominick III , will join Maestro Michael Shapiro and the orchestra in this celebration of American music and American river ways.

This concert is FREE, donations accepted at the door, reception following the concert. This concert is offered in collaboration with the Chappaqua Library.

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Concert and Tree Lighting
Join your orchestra, local performers, friends, and neighbors for the third annual New Castle Community Sing followed by the Holiday Tree Lighting with the New Castle Historical Society. Santa will be on hand to hear holiday wishes and yummy treats will be provided for all by the New Castle Teen Alliance.

Performers will include the Chappaqua Singers, soprano Elizabeth Farnum, and the Antioch Baptist Church Choir

This concert is FREE! No tickets or reservations necessary. All ages (and voices) are welcome.

Clarinetist Eric Drucker and
Pianist Cynthia Peterson
with special guest Sandra Robbins, viola

Sunday, October 9, 2011 at 3 pm
Chappaqua Library Auditorium
195 South Greeley Avenue, Chappaqua, NY

Mozart Trio in E flat, K. 498 and Eight Pieces, op.83 by Max Bruch

Press Release

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Madera Vox

Sunday, January 22, 2012 at 3 pm
Chappaqua Library Auditorium
195 South Greeley Avenue, Chappaqua, NY

Contemporary music for voice, winds and percussion.

Photo Credit: Michael Pollito

Madera Vox
(Wood + Voice)

www.maderavox.org

Allison Ruben-Bitz, oboe
Cornelia McGiver, bassoon
Sylvia Buccelli, piano
David Gluck, percussion
Kelly Ellenwood, soprano

PROGRAM:

La Douceur de la Vie (David Gluck/Kelly Ellenwood)
Seeing the Elephant (David Gluck/Kelly Ellenwood)

Children’s Song  #9 (Chick Corea, arr. Gluck)
Children’s Song #6 (Chick Corea, arr. Gluck)

Two Movements from “Four Sketches” (Peter Hope)
for oboe, bassoon & piano

    Prelude
    Dance

Selections from "Love After 1950" (Libby Larsen)
            “The Empty Song” (lyrics: Liz Lochead)
            “Big Sister Says” (lyrics: Kathryn Daniels, arr. Gluck)

Alabama Song (Kurt Weill/Berthold Brecht, arr. Gluck)

Come As You Are (Kurt Cobain, arr. Gluck)

This concert is FREE, donations accepted at the door, reception following the concert. This concert is offered in collaboration with the Chappaqua Library.
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Rachel Evans, Violin

Sunday, March 11, 2012 at 3 pm
Chappaqua Library Auditorium
195 South Greeley Avenue, Chappaqua, NY

TCO Principal Bassoonist Jill Collura

Sunday, May 13, 2012 at 3 pm
Chappaqua Library Auditorium
195 South Greeley Avenue, Chappaqua, NY

A a multi-woodwind recital on bassoon, flute and clarinet.