Musicians of the Old Post Road presents The Parisian Classical Salon
Friday, March 1, 8:00 pm, First Parish of Sudbury, Unitarian Universalist, 327 Concord Road, Sudbury, MA
Co-Presented by the Sudbury Historical Society
Tickets $30 general admission, $25 seniors and students, $20 Member of the Sudbury Historical Society. Children 7 to 17 admitted free of charge with an accompanying adult. To purchase tickets or for information, call 781.466.6694, or visit www.OldPostRoad.org
This program will transport listeners to Paris of the late 18th century with elegant and effervescent chamber works. The concerts will explore the lively and varied musical milieu of French Classicism, and will include Ignace Pleyel’s Grand Trio op. 29 for piano, flute, and cello; an enigmatic duo for piano and violin by Nicolas-Joseph Hüllmandel, a brilliant trio for flute and strings by François Devienne, an engaging piano trio by Nicolas Séjan, and an ebullient piano quartet by André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry based on themes from his operas. These performances will feature Suzanne Stumpf, flute, Sarah Darling, violin, Daniel Ryan, cello, and Michael Bahmann, fortepiano. A reception with French confections will follow each performance.
Daniel Ryan and Suzanne Stumpf, Artistic Directors of the award-winning ensemble Musicians of the Old Post Road, are pleased to announce these performances as part of the ensemble’s 2012-2013 season of chamber music concerts. The ensemble’s unique concert series brings period instrument performances of music of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries to beautiful historic buildings along the path of New England’s fabled Old Post Road. The group’s programming offers a fascinating mix of newly-rediscovered works alongside established masterpieces. For this twenty-fourth season, concerts will be presented at venues in Boston, Cambridge, Sudbury, Wayland, and Worcester.
Tickets are $30 general admission, $25 for seniors and students. Children ages 7 to 17 are admitted free when accompanied by an adult. Old Post Road concert sites are wheelchair accessible. For tickets and additional information, contact Musicians of the Old Post Road, 318 Bear Hill Road, Suite 9, Waltham, MA 02451, telephone (781) 466-6694, email Musicians@OldPostRoad,org, or visit OPR’s website at www.oldpostroad.org. Musicians of the Old Post Road’s concert series is sponsored, in part, by The Furumoto Research Foundation, The Bear Foundation, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
About the Ensemble
Musicians of the Old Post Road is a chamber music ensemble specializing in the period instrument performance of music from the Baroque, Classical, and early Romantic periods. The ensemble has received national recognition for its creative programming, garnering the Noah Greenberg Award from the American Musicological Society, and awards from Chamber Music America and the U.S.–Mexico Fund for Culture. The group has appeared on New England’s WCVB-TV’s “Chronicle” program and toured throughout Europe and the United States, including performances at the Tage Alter Musik Festival in Regensburg, Germany, the Boston Early Music Festival concert series, and the Indianapolis Early Music Festival. The ensemble was in residence at Dartmouth College in April, 2005.
The ensemble’s acclaimed concert series, founded in 1989, brings chamber music performances to venues in cities and towns along the original route of the old Boston Post Road, the first thoroughfare connecting Boston and New York City beginning in the late seventeenth century. Sites for the concert series have included historic meetinghouses, mansions, museums, and public halls offering the architecture, acoustics, and ambiance appropriate to the music.
The group’s discography includes five critically acclaimed recordings: “The Virtuoso Double Bass,” “Trios and Scottish Song Settings of J. N. Hummel,” “Galant with an Attitude: Music of Juan and José Pla,” “Quartets of Telemann and Bodinus,” and “Feliz Navidad: Christmas from Spain and New Spain.” A sixth CD, “Roman Handel”, featuring soprano Kristen Watson, has just been released on the Centaur label.
Committed to the music education and enrichment of young people and to reaching diverse audiences, Musicians of the Old Post Road pursues a variety of community outreach initiatives. The ensemble has brought programs and performances to inner-city students, groups of the elderly, rural audiences, hospice residents, and retirement communities.
