CARTHAGE — The Sebago-Long Lake Music Festival will present “Discover the Joys of Live Music,” at Skye Theatre Performing Arts Center on Sunday, July 17.
The 7 p.m. program will feature stringed instruments and flute, and will include short classical selections, audience participation and a Maine premiere of a work for string quartet and narrator.
Festival musicians are top-level professional artists who travel from around the country to participate in the five-week event held every summer at Deertrees Theatre in Harrison.
The program, designed and narrated by SLLMF Music Director Laurie Kennedy, will take audience members on a quick journey through four centuries of classical music, with short selections by such composers as Vivaldi, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Bartok and Villa-Lobos.
Also featured will be “… and those seven dwarfs,” by 30-year-old composer Ryan Jesperson. This imaginative work uses the musical language of the present to tell the famous story from the dwarfs’ point of view. Jesperson, who lives in Connecticut, is engaged to Sarah Washburn, who grew up in in a family of musicians living in New Sharon.
Festival musicians performing at Skye will include California husband-and-wife violinists Movses Pogossian, professor at UCLA, and Varty Manouelian, a member of the LA Philharmonic; NYC husband-and-wife team cellist Eliot Bailen and flutist Susan Rotholz; and Kennedy, who is principal viola with the Portland Symphony and a Carthage resident.
Guest performers will be cellist Eddie Pogossian,14, and violinists Cara and Anoush Pogossian, who are 12 and 8, respectively. Eddie is winner of the Young Musicians Competition of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Musician Luke Pane, 17, a Wilton resident and a senior at Mt. Blue High School, will perform with Eddie Pogossian. Pane won the position of Concertmaster of Maine All-State Orchestra this year, and, on June 18, won first prize in the Bay Chamber Concerts Young Stars of Maine Competition.
Skye Theater is at 2 Highland Drive off Winter Hill Road and U.S. Route 2. Tickets are $15 at the door. Call 562-4445 or visit www.necelticarts.com.
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- Among the Sebago-Long Lake Music Festival musicians who will perform at the “Discover the Joys of Live Music” concert at Skye Theatre Performing Arts Center are, from left, Movses Pogossian, Vary Manouelian, Eliot Bailen and Laurie Kennedy.
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