New Hampshire Music Festival
The New Hampshire Music Festival began as a small chamber orchestra on an island in Lake Winnipesaukee in 1952.
The Festival makes its home at the Silver Center at Plymouth State University in Plymouth, New Hampshire. Top musicians from all over the United States come to New Hampshire, attracted by the recreational opportunities of the Lakes Region and the White Mountains as well as the chance to play with a group of colleagues they have come to know and love over many years. Several musicians have been a part of the Festival for over 40 years.
Paul Polivnik returns for his second summer as conductor and music director.
Full orchestral classical music concerts are held on Thursdays in the Hanaway Theater at the Silver Center. Chamber music concerts with members of the Festival orchestra are held in the intimate Smith Recital Hall on Tuesdays.
2017 program
Chamber Music Series
Intimate music experiences performed by musicians of the Festival Orchestra Wednesday July 5 and Tuesdays July 11, 18, 25, and August 1 at 7:30
Smith Recital Hall at the Silver Center for the Arts, Plymouth State University
Orchestra Classics Series
The full grandeur of Classical Music Thursdays at 7:30pm - July 6, 13, 20, 27 and August 3
Words on Music - a free, pre-concert lecture at 6:30 pm in the Recital Hall Hanaway Theatre at the Silver Center for the Arts, Plymouth State University
New This Year- Concerts in Wolfeboro
Chamber Concerts: Saturdays July 15 and 29 at 7:30 pm, Anderson Hall at Brewster Academy
Full Orchestral Concerts: Saturdays July 8 and August 5 at 7:30 pm, Kingswood Regional Performing Arts Center
Week 1: NATURAL BEAUTY
Thursday, July 6, 7:30 PM Festival Orchestra, Festival Orchestra Paul Polivnik, conductor
also Saturday July 8, 7:30 PM in Wolfeboro
DAVIES Orkney Wedding with Sunrise
BRUCK Violin Concerto in G, Yulia Iglinova Milshtein, violin
BEETHOVEN Symphony #5
Week 2: MOZART AND MAHLER
Thursday, July 13, 7:30 PM
Festival Orchestra Paul Polivnik, conductor
MOZART Der Shauspieldirecktor (The Impresario)
MAHLER Symphony No. 4
Week 3: COPLAND IN MEXICOP
Thursday, July 20, 7:30 PM
Festival Orchestra Paul Polivnik, conductor
COPLAND Buckaroo Holiday from Rodeo
El Salon Mexico
REVUELTAS Son and Duelo per Garcia Lorca
Sensemaya
Redes
Week 4: CHORAL WEEK- LORD NELSON MASS
Thursday, July 27, 7:30 PM Festival Orchestra and Chorus Paul Polivnik, conductor, Dan Perkins principal guest conductor
NICO MUHLY So To Speak and Pleasure Ground Nathan Wyatt, baritone BRAHMS Symphony No. 2
DEBUSSY Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
HUANG RUO Leaving Soo
Still Motion
HAYDEN Lord Nelson Mass
Week 5: SEASON FINALE
Thursday, August 3, 7:30 PM Hanaway Theater, Festival Orchestra and Chorus Paul Polivnik, conductor
also Saturday August 5, 7:30 PM in Wolfeboro
TCHAIKOVSKY Coronation March
PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto #2
RACHMANINOV Symphonic Dances
Program and artists subject to change.
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