FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact David Kramer david.p.kramer@gmail.com (413) 464-2755
David Kramer, Artistic Director
Concerts at 7 announces a new season of its celebrated summer series of chamber music at the classically beautiful and acoustically magnificent Congregational Church in Plainfield, Massachusetts. Our 2024 program of four concerts on the four Mondays of August features the return of world-renowned bassist Avery Sharpe and his ensemble, the dynamic young Ondata Piano Trio, a performance of Schubert’s Octet by the Springfield Chamber Players, and a vocal recital by UMASS tenor William Hite, accompanied by pianist Lemuel Gurtowsky. The concerts are offered free of charge. We rely entirely on donations, which are gratefully accepted at the door or through our website. The church is located at 356 West Main Street (Route 116) in the center of Plainfield. For further information, please visit our website at www.plainfieldconcertsat7.org or call (413) 464-2755.
August 5, 2024, 7 p.m. Bassist Avery Sharpe will return with his ensemble to perform his “I Am My Neighbor’s Keeper” project for string quartet, piano, drums, African percussion, and double bass.
August 12, 2024, 7 p.m. Trio Ondata—violinist Michael Ferri, cellist Miriam Liske-Doorandish, and pianist Anthony Ratinov—will perform Lera Auerbach’s Piano Trio No. 2; Johannes Brahms’s Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor, Op. 101; Anna Pidgorna’s Like Doves with Grey Wings Embracing; and Arno Babadjanian’s Piano Trio in F-sharp minor.
August 19, 2024, 7 p.m. The Springfield Chamber Players will perform Franz Schubert’s magnificent Octet for two violins, viola, cello, double bass, horn, clarinet, and bassoon. You won’t get many chances in your lifetime to hear a live performance of this transcendentally beautiful work. Don’t miss it! The group will also perform Schubert’s “Rosamunde” string quartet.
August 26, 2024, 7 p.m. William Hite, tenor and professor of voice at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, will present a vocal recital, accompanied by pianist Lemuel Gurtowsky. The program will include Benjamin Britten’s Winter Words, Op. 52, settings of poems by Thomas Hardy; Gabriel Fauré’s La Bonne Chanson, Op. 61, settings of poems by Paul Verlaine; and French and English folk song settings by Benjamin Britten.
PLAINFIELD CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
356 West Main Street (Rt. 116) • Plainfield, MA 01070
ADMISSION FREE • HANDICAPPED ACCESSIBLE
This program is supported in part by grants from local cultural councils,
which are supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.