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.
Donato Cabrera returns for his third summer as conductor and music director. Mr. Cabrera is the Resident Conductor of the San Francisco Symphony and the Music Director of Las Vegas Philharmonic.
Full orchestral classical music concerts are held on Thursdays in the Hanaway Theater at the Silver Center. Chamber music concerts with members of the Festival orchestra are held in the intimate Smith Recital Hall on Tuesdays.
2015 program
Chamber Music Series
Intimate music experiences performed by musicians of the Festival Orchestra Tuesdays at 8 pm - July 7, 17, 21, 28 and August 4
Smith Recital Hall at the Silver Center for the Arts, Plymouth State University
Orchestra Classics Series
The full grandeur of Classical Music Thursdays at 8pm - July 9, 16, 23, 30 and August 6
Words on Music - a free, pre-concert lecture at 7pm in the Recital Hall Hanaway Theatre at the Silver Center for the Arts, Plymouth State University
Week 1: AMERICAN LANDSCAPES
Thursday, July 9, 8 PM Festival Orchestra
Dan Perkins, conductor
NATHANIEL STOOKEY Big Bang
GROFÉ Grand Canyon Suite
BARBER School for Scandal Overture
BERNSTEIN Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
Week 2: DVOŘÁK IN AMERICA
Thursday, July 16, 8 PM
Festival Orchestra Donato Cabrera, conductor
HOROWITZ Dvořák in America with multimedia & narration by Joseph Horowitz Kevin Deas, bass-baritone
HERBERT Cello Concerto
Walter Gray, cello
DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 9, “From the New World”
Week 3: THE FOUR SEASONS
Thursday, July 23, 8 PM Festival Orchestra Donato Cabrera, conductor
PHILIP GLASS Company for String Orchestra
SCHUBERT Symphony No. 3 in D Major
VIVALDI The Four Seasons Charles Dimmick, violin
SPECIAL EVENT: Oz with Orchestra
MONDAY, JULY 27 at 7 PM
Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion at Meadowbrook
Dan Perkins, conductor
Catch the original 1939 Wizard of Oz film on the big screen backed by the NHMF Orchestra. Fun for the whole family!
Week 4: COMPOSER PORTRAIT: NICO MUHLY
Thursday, July 30, 8 PM Festival Orchestra Donato Cabrera, conductor
NICO MUHLY So To Speak and Pleasure Ground Nathan Wyatt, baritone BRAHMS Symphony No. 2
Week 5: SEASON FINALE: DONA NOBIS PACEM
Thursday, August 6, 8 PM Festival Orchestra and Chorus Donato Cabrera, conductor Dan Perkins, director of choral activities
MASON BATES Devil’s Radio
TCHAIKOVSKY Meditation and Melodie from Souvenir d’un lieu cher
SARASATE Romanza andaluza and Zigeunerweisen
Yulia Iglinova Milstein, violin
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Dona nobis pacem
Tami Petty, soprano Paul Max Tipton, baritone
Program and artists subject to change.
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