Arpeggio Music Festival 2023

For 2023, Arpeggio Music Festival will present important musical works in new perspectives. Hear all four of Vivaldi's Four Seasons, but played by a string quartet with soloist, and with the poems that inspired the composer recited. Hear Mahler's magnificent Ninth symphony transcribed for piano four-hand. Hear the Four Last Songs by Richard Strauss juxtaposed with five remarkable piano pieces he wrote as a teenager.
Experience music performed in a different arrangement or context and see if you don't gain new understanding of the composer's processes.

Concerts

Weekend One

Friday June 2 at 7:30
Antonio Vivaldi: The Four Seasons (all four), for 5 strings, with original inspirational poems recited.
Performed by the Deming String Quartet

Saturday June 3 at 7:30
Richard Strauss: The Four Last Songs and the Opus 3, Five piano pieces.
Performed by Hanna Golodinskii and Pavel Gintov, piano


Sunday June 4 at 7:00
Richard Wagner: “Unshielded” From the Wagner in Vermont Festival. A new, special, through-composed adaption of the music of Wotan and Brunhild (father and daughter) from Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle.
Performed by Hugh Keelan, piano; Jenna Rae, soprano; Charles Martin, Heldenbariton

Weekend Two

Friday June 9 at 7:30
Gustav Mahler: Symphony no.9
Arranged for Piano Four Hands. Jed Distler and Jerome Kuderna, pianists

Saturday June 10 at 7:30
Jazz: Total Improv
Bennie Wallace, tenor saxophone, and 2 other musicians meet to perform with no rehearsal or pre-set program

Sunday June 11 at 4:00
Concert Band and Organ:
Works originally written for orchestra and organ such as Richard Strauss, Festival Prelude and Saint-Saens Organ Symphony
Craig Symons on Organ and the sixty-piece Connecticut Symphonic Winds, Charles de Paul, Conductor

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