New Hampshire Music Festival
The New Hampshire Music Festival began as a small chamber orchestra on an island in Lake Winnipesaukee in 1952.
The Festival makes its home at the Silver Center at Plymouth State University in Plymouth, New Hampshire. Top musicians from all over the United States come to New Hampshire, attracted by the recreational opportunities of the Lakes Region and the White Mountains as well as the chance to play with a group of colleagues they have come to know and love over many years. Several musicians have been a part of the Festival for over 40 years.
Paul Polivnik returns for his third summer as conductor and music director.
Full orchestral classical music concerts are held on Thursdays in the Hanaway Theater at the Silver Center. This year there will be four concerts repeated on Saturdays in Wolfboro. Chamber music concerts with members of the Festival orchestra are held in the intimate Smith Recital Hall at Plymouth State on Tuesdays.
2018 program
Chamber Music Series
Intimate music experiences performed by musicians of the Festival Orchestra
Plymouth - Tuesdays July 10, 17, 24, 31 and August 7 at 7:30
Smith Recital Hall at the Silver Center for the Arts, Plymouth State University
Wolfeboro - Saturdays July 21 and 24, at 7:30 pm, First Congregational Church, Wolfeboro
Orchestra Classics Series
Plymouth - The full grandeur of Classical Music Thursdays at 7:30pm - July 12, 19, 26, and August 2 and 9
Words on Music - a free, pre-concert lecture at 6:30 pm in the Recital Hall
Hanaway Theatre at the Silver Center for the Arts, Plymouth State University
Wolfeboro - Full Orchestral Concerts: Saturdays July 14 and 28, August 4 and 11 at 7:30 pm,
Kingswood Regional Performing Arts Center
New - Chanticleer, Orchestra of Voices
Plymouth Congregational Church, Monday July 23 8:30 pm
Week 1: Opening Night - Metamorphoses
Thursday, July 12, 7:30 PM, Hanaway Theater
Festival Orchestra Paul Polivnik, conductor
also Saturday July 14, 7:30 PM in Wolfeboro
Wagner – Prelude to Die Meistersinger
Mozart – Violin Concerto #5, Chee Yun – Violin
Hindemith – Symphonic Metamorphoses
Tchaikovsky– Capriccio Italien
Week 2: Composer Portrait - James Stephenson
Thursday, July 19, 7:30 PM, Hanaway Theater
Festival Orchestra Paul Polivnik, conductor
Nielsen – Helios Overture
Stephenson - Celestial Suite
Stephenson - Ode to Peace
Beethoven- Triple Concerto
Frances Renzi, piano
Charles Dimmick, violin
David Goldblatt, Cello
Week 3: ENESCU, RAVEL AND VERDI
Thursday, July 26, 7:30 PM, Hanaway Theater
Festival Orchestra Paul Polivnik, conductor
Enescu – Romanian Rhapsody
Ravel – Piano Concerto in G #2
Lara Downes – Piano
Verdi – Overture and Four Seasons Ballet from
Week 4: CHORAL WEEK- A TRIBUTE TO BERNSTEIN AT 100
Thursday, August 2, 7:30 PM, Hanaway Theater
Festival Orchestra and Chorus, Paul Polivnik, conductor
also Saturday August 4, 7:30 PM in Wolfeboro
Bernstein – Prelude, Fugue, and Riffs
Arranged by Lukas Foss
Bernstein – On the Waterfront Suite
Bernstein – Candide Overture
Bernstein – Mass
Matthew Anderson, tenor
Janet Poisson, soprano
Kaitlin Donovan, soprano
Week 5: SEASON FINALE - STRAVINSKY, SIBELIUS AND RACHMANINOV
Thursday, August 9, 7:30 PM Hanaway Theater
Festival Orchestra, Paul Polivnik, conductor
also Saturday August 11, 7:30 PM in Wolfeboro
Stravinsky – Scherzo a la Russe
Rachmaninov – Piano Concerto #2
Steven Lin – Piano
Sibelius – Symphony #3 |
Program and artists subject to change.
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