Two performances:

Friday, March 9, 8 pm, First Parish, 50 Cochituate Road, Wayland, Co-presented by the Wayland Historical Society

Saturday, March 10, 3 PM, Old South Church, 645 Boylston Street, Boston

 

Tickets $30 general admission, $25 seniors and students.  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

 

Celebrate the 300^th birthday of the beloved music-loving monarch, Frederick the Great, with Musicians of the Old Post Road!  The program will feature works highlighting the various styles popular within “Fritz’s” court, including Baroque, galant, and the dramatic empfindsamer stil. You will be treated to delightful trio sonatas and quartets by Quantz, Janitsch, Graun, and Benda, as well as selections composed by the King himself.  Acclaimed New York oboist Sarah Davol will make her debut with Old Post Road for these performances, which will include birthday cake to complete the celebration!  Performances will take place on Friday, March 9, 8 PM, at First Parish in Wayland and Saturday, March 10, 3 PM, at Old South Church in Boston.  The Wayland performance is co-presented by the Wayland Historical Society.Performers include Suzanne Stumpf, traverso, Sarah Davol, oboe, Sarah Darling violin, Daniel Ryan, cello, and Michael Bahmann, harpsichord.

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 2011-2012 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-third season, concerts will be presented at venues in Boston, Cambridge, Wayland, Sudbury, and Worcester. Children will be offered free admission when accompanied by an adult at all venues.

 

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, or visit OPR’s website at www.oldpostroad.org. Musicians of the Old Post Road concert series is sponsored, in part, by The Furumoto Research Foundation, The Bear Foundation, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

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,” and “Quartets of Telemann and Bodinus.” A fifth CD, “Feliz Navidad: Christmas from Spain and New Spain,” was recently released on Meridian Records of London.

 

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, to elderly groups, to rural audiences, to hospice residents, and to retirement communities.