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Rites of Spring Music Festival
2018

Picture
Credit: artwork by Cliff Baldwin
Piano Recital
Paolo Bartolani

Castello di Borghese Vineyard
April 28, 2018

JohannSebastianBach             Three Preludes   (publishedon1843)
HeitorVilla-Lobos                 BachianaBrasileirano 4–Prelude(1930)
Franz Schubert Impromptu op .90 n.1 D899 (1827) 
Philip Glass    Etude n.2 (1994)
Franz Schubert    Drei Klavierstücke, D 946 (1828) No. 1 in E-flat minor
Intermission
Georg Friedrich Händel / William Kempff Minet g minor (1733) Domenico Cimarosa Sonatai n g minor (1789) Gavin Bryars Ramble on Cortona (2010) Claude Debussy  Estampes  (1903)   
Paolo Bartolani,pianist


Picture
Credit: artwork by Cliff Baldwin
Emanio String Quartet

Jamesport Meeting House
May 5, 2018
Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet Op. 18 No. 1
B
éla Bartok: String Quartet No.3 (1927)
Intermission
F
elix Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 2 in a minor , Op.13 (1827)

Picture
Credit: artwork by Cliff Baldwin
Music under the Stars
Ian Rosenbaum & Eduardo Leandro,
percussionists

Custer Observatory
May 12, 2018

Tom Johnson - Counting Duets
M
ark Applebaum - Aphasia
G
eorge Aperghis - Toucher
James Wood - Secret Dialogues
T
awnie Olson - Meadowlark
A
lejandro Viñao - Arabesco Infinito


Picture
Credit: artwork by Cliff Baldwin
Piano Recital 
Nicholas King
, piano
Castello di Borghese Vineyard

May 19, 2018
Johann Sebastian Bach Toccata in e minor , BMV 914 (1714 ) Franz Liszt Sonata in  b minor, S. 178( 1854)
I
ntermission Claude Debussy Suite bergamasque (1890) Sergei Rachmaninoff Preludes ( 1910)


Picture
Credit: artwork by Cliff Baldwin
Cliff Baldwin & ACME
Aquebogue Contemporary Music Ensemble with the
Riverhead High School Chamber Choir  in an electroacoustic mix of auditory stimulation and a celebration of nature’s hidden sounds.
​Quogue Wildlife Refuge
June 2, 2018

Picture
Credit: artwork by Cliff Baldwin
Rising Stars Piano Recital
Three pianists in collaboration with PianoFest in the Hamptons.
Pianist: Matthew Griswold
P
ianist: Nara Avetisyan
P
ianist: Philip Kwoka
Peconic Bay Yacht Club
June 3, 2018


Picture
Credit: artwork by Cliff Baldwin
Renaissance Strings of Pure Delight
Chris Morrongiello
, lutenist
Poquatuck Hall
June 9, 2018
Pieces published by Pierre Attaingnant, Paris, 1 529 Anonymous Scottish pieces from Jacobean manuscript sandprints,  c. 1620
D
ances from the court of Queen Elizabeth  I , c. 1590
Pieces published by Joan Ambrosio Dalza, Venice, 1508
I
ntermission
Elizabethan Ballads for Lute Pieces by Francesco Canova da Milano (published in 1547)
Pieces by John Dowland


Picture
Credit: artwork by Cliff Baldwin
Opera Night Concert
Masha Carrera
, soprano
Tomoko Fujita, cello, 
Paolo Bartolani, piano

Laurel Lake Vineyards
​
June 16, 2018

Music by Handel, Puccini, Donizetti, Bellini, Fauré, Satie, Rossini


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      • Luminous Beauty Date: May 14th, 2023 >
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      • New Music Under the Big Sky Date: May 27th, 2023 >
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      • Viennese Atmosphere Date: June 29th, 2023 >
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      • Music at the Village Green Date: July 13th, 2023
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      • Rustic Mid-Summer Concert Date: August 27th, 2023 >
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      • Sounds of Images Date: 9/14/2023 >
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      • Tuning Into Nature: Date: 11/04/2023 >
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      • Piano Recital 2023 Holiday Weekend in Music Date: 12/08/2023 >
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      • Opera Night & Dinner Holiday Weekend in Music: Date 12/09/2023 >
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    • 7TH EDITION 2022 >
      • DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT
      • Meet & Greet and.... Music Date: 5/22/2022
      • New Music Under the Big Sky Date: 5/28/2022 >
        • TICKETS May 28th
      • The Sounds of Nature Date: 6/10/2022
      • Between the Wind and the Shrubs Date: 7/01/2022 >
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      • Solo Recital All Frederic Chopin Date: 7/24/2022 >
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      • Music for a Changing Climate: A Meditation Date: 10/16/2022 >
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      • Sounds of Images Date: 11/04/2022 >
        • TICKETS November 4th
      • 2022 HOLIDAY CONCERT Date: 12/18/2022 >
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    • 6th EDITION, 2021 >
      • 2021 FESTIVAL
      • 2021 MUSIC & TELL VIRTUAL EPISODES
      • O Mysterium Magnum
      • New Music Under the Big Sky
      • Ballads & Other Cautionary Tales
      • An evening of Shakespeare:
      • French Music Soirée
      • Sound of Science >
        • Sound of Science Date: 9/17/202
      • A Night at The JazzLoft
      • 2021 Benefit Holiday Concert
    • 5TH EDITION, 2020 >
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      • Music & Culinary Soiree
      • Holiday Benefit Concert
      • Silent Auction Fundraiser
    • 4th Edition, 2019
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