Two performances:
Friday, April 20, 8 PM, Worcester Historical Museum, 30 Elm Street, Worcester (co-presented by the Worcester Historical Museum)
Saturday, April 21, 8 PM, Harvard Epworth Church, 1555 Mass. Ave., Cambridge
Tickets $30 general, $25 seniors, students, and members of the Worcester Historical Museum. 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
Join Musicians of the Old Post Road as they trace the musical migrations of several of the many fascinating Classical composers from Bohemia. These itinerant virtuosos enlivened the cultural centers of Europe through their stylish compositions and exquisite performances in the late eighteenth century. The program will include a brilliant flute quartet by Adalbert Gyrowetz, a lively trio for flute and strings by Johann Stamitz, a darkly expressive piano trio by Jan Ladislav Dussek, and a brilliant piano concerto by Josef Antonin Štepán. The program will also include a Mozart opera overture that was performed in Prague.
Performances will take place on Friday, April 20, 8 PM, at the Worcester Historical Museum and Saturday April 21, 8 PM, at Harvard Epworth Church in Cambridge. Performers include Suzanne Stumpf, classical flute, Sarah Darling, violin, Marcia Cassidy, viola, Daniel Ryan, cello, and Michael Bahmann, fortepiano. The Worcester Performance is co-presented by the Worcester Historical Museum
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, students, and Worcester Historical Museum members. 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.
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,” 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.
