Clara Sandler, Soprano
Emmanuel Feldman, Cello
Will Riley, Guitar
Maria Benotti, Violin

Friday, June 22, 8 PM, New England Biolabs, Ipswich

Saturday, June 23, 8 PM, Endicott College Chapel, Beverly

Program II : Echoes of Our Age
Beloved classics and poetic new discoveries for harp, flute and viola. At the Peabody Essex Museum, the special “Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination” exhibit will be open to MEE’s audience. Savor Afternoon Tea and Cape-Ann inspired paintings by Heather Reid at the Community House of Hamilton and Wenham. Experience the 20th Century in an extraordinary visual and musical odyssey.
Ravel Sonatine en trio; Amlin “Encomium”; Gubaidulina “Garden of Joys and Sadness”; Beethoven Duo in F Major; Young “The Song of the Lark”; Navok “Veiled Echoes”.

Mosaic Trio
Barbara Poeschl-Edrich, Harp
Mark Berger, Viola
Whitney Pencina, Flute

Sunday, July 15, 5 PM, Community House of Hamilton and Wenham, South Hamilton

Press release for Echoes of Our Age

Program III : High Summer Strings
The exuberant string trio engages in music of Martin: String Trio, Martinu: Three Madrigals; and Beethoven Trio in E Flat, Op 3. The Event of the Summer: World premiere of MEE’s 2007 commission: String Trio No.2, “Sea Voices” by Mark Berger, a meditation on the late poem “The Dry Salvages” by T. S. Eliot, who spent his childhood summers on Eastern Point in Gloucester. This moving testimony to a poignant Cape Ann experience is a must both for visitors and also for residents of the North Shore.

Maria Benotti, Violin
Mark Berger, Viola
Sarah Freiberg, Cello

Friday, August 3, 8 PM, New England Biolabs, Ipswich

Saturday, August 4, 8 PM, Endicott College Chapel, Beverly

Program IV : The 18th Century Grand Tour in August
A musical journey of Sonatas and Suites of of the 18th Century Baroque performed on period violins, cello and harpsichord. Rarely heard works of Le Roux, Marais, Couperin, Laurenti, Mondonville, and Purcell combined with more familiar offerings by Corelli, J.S. Bach and Telemann. Savor the sounds and sights of the 18th Century in the American Handcrafts Gallery and the Maritime Galleries of the Peabody Essex Museum, open to MEE’s audience.

Julia McKenzie and
Maria Benotti, Early Violins
Sarah Freiberg, Baroque Cello
Michael Sponseller, Harpsichord

Friday, August 24, 8 PM, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem

Saturday, August 25, 8 PM, Endicott College Chapel, Beverly

Program V : European Roots, American September
Celebrating the artistic coming of age in America, works of Harvard professor John Knowles Paine and Salem-born Arthur Foote are juxtaposed with the deft French musical hand of Lili Boulanger and the giant of chamber works, the “Archduke Trio” of Beethoven, from which Americans drew their inspiration. The Fitz Henry Lane Gallery of the Cape Ann Historical Museum will be open for our audience to experience some of the visual art of America’s artistic self-realization.

Maria Benotti, Violin
Lynn Nowels, Cello
Eda Mazo-Shlyam, Piano

Friday, September 14, 8 PM, Community House of Hamilton and Wenham, South Hamilton

Saturday, September 15, 8 PM, Cape Ann Historical Museum, Gloucester