HARRISON — The third concert of the Sebago-Long Lake Music Festival’s 46th season continues at the Deertrees Theatre at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 31. The festival presents a chamber music repertoire performed by internationally acclaimed artists for three more Tuesday evenings through Aug. 14.
Composers sometimes like to surprise listeners with unexpected combinations of instruments. In this concert, contrasts in range, timbre and texture are explored with thrilling results: by Villa-Lobos in his exotic Jet Whistle for flute and cello; by Saint-Saëns in his atmospheric Fantaisie for violin and harp, a work filled with flowing melodies and bravura turns; and by Debussy in the Sonata for flute, violin and harp, a late work whose distinct and contrasting timbres produce a beguiling range of colors and textures. Capping the program is Brahms’s magnificent Piano Quintet in F minor, one of the crown jewels of Romantic chamber music repertoire.
Pianist and Music Director Mihae Lee will be joined by a group of internationally acclaimed artists, flutist Susan Rotholz, violinists Varty Manouelian and Movses Pogossian, violist Mary Hammann, cellists Eliot Bailen and Bonnie Thron, and harpist Stacey Shames.
Individual tickets are $25. Five-concert subscriptions are $100. Free for anyone 21 and under. All tickets are for open seating. Tickets will be held at the front entrance box office and are available on concert nights starting at 6:45 p.m. Reserved tickets must be picked up by 7. Purchase tickets online at http://sllmf.org/tickets/, or call 207-781-3202 before noon the day of the concert.
For more information visit the website: www.sebagomusicfestival.org.
Harpist Stacey Shames
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