2010 White Mountain Music Festival

SPECIAL CONCERT!

AMY BEACH IN WORDS AND MUSIC

Sunday, August 22, 2:00 to 4:00 p.m., Little Studio at Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, Cornish, NH

PROGRAM:

“Dreaming” from four sketches for piano, Opus 15 (arranged for cello and piano by the composer)

“Canoeing” from 6 to 12 for piano, Opus 119, No. 3

“Menuetto” written at the age of ten

“Oh Mistress Mine” for voice and piano from three Shakespeare songs,
Opus 37, No. 1

“A Mirage” for voice and piano trio, words by Bertha Ochsner,
Opus 100, No. 1

“Chanson d’Amour” for voice, cello and piano, words by Victor Hugo,
Opus 21, No. 1

“Take, O take those lips away” from three Shakespeare songs,
Opus 37, No. 2

“In Autumn” from four sketches for piano, Opus 15, No. 1

Scherzo from Violin Sonata in A minor, Opus 34

“Ecstacy” for voice and piano, words by Amy Beach, Opus 29

Largo con dolore from Violin Sonata in A minor, Opus 34

“The Year’s at the Spring” for voice and piano, words by
Robert Browning, Opus 44, No.1

“Ah, Love, But a Day” for voice & piano, words by
Robert Browning, Op. 44, No. 2

“The Hermit Thrush at Morn” for piano, Opus 92, No. 2

“Rendezvous” for voice, violin & piano, words by Leonora Speyer,
Opus 120

Allegro from the Piano Trio (1938), Opus 150

Romance for Violin & Piano, Opus 2


NARRATOR: Original script narration by Marie Harris, NH Poet Laureate Emerita

MUSICIANS: Kurt Macomber, violin; Chris Finckel, cello; Bernard Rose, Piano

DIRECTIONS: Please go to Saint-Gaudens website for best directions to the concert venue.