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Arcadia Players "The Finest Baroque Ensemble in the Pioneer Valley"Ian Watson, Artistic Director Our 19th season |
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THE
ITALIAN CONNECTION: BACH & VIVALDI Pre-concert talk
by Christopher Krueger at 2:30 PM Saturday, October 20, 2007, at 7:30 PM Pre-concert talk by Alice Robbins at 7:00 PM Robert Eisenstein Pre-concert
talks by Robert Eisenstein at 7:00 PM Saturday and 2:30 PM
Sunday Cantabile vocal ensemble: Dorie
Goldman, Deanna
Joseph, James Mead, David Olsson, Peter W. Shea, Kayla Werlin with instrumentalists of Arcadia Players:
Robert Eisenstein
& Joseph Jewett, violins; Laurie Rabut, viola
da gamba; Gregory Hayes,
harpsichord One performance
only! Pre-concert
talk by E. Wayne Abercrombie at 7:00 PM MUSIC BY HAYDN, BEETHOVEN AND WEBER: a
benefit concert for Arcadia Players Friday, May 9, 2008, at 7:30 PM Arcadia
Players Chamber
Ensemble Christopher
Krueger,
flute
Arcadia Players reserves the right to make
changes in programs and dates
Arcadia
Players and the Springfield Chapter of the American Guild of
Organists present
IAN WATSON,
BENEFIT ORGAN RECITAL
Sunday, September 9, 2007 at
3:00 PM
South Congregational
Church
45 Maple Street, Springfield MA
Music
of J.S. Bach, Flor Peeters, Louis Vierne and Sir Edward Elgar
This is a benefit concert for Arcadia Players.
Suggested donation $10 at the door. No tickets.
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Sweeney Concert Hall, Smith College
Northampton MA
J.S. Bach (after Vivaldi): Concerto for 4
harpsichords & strings in A minor, BWV 1065 -- Ian Watson, Gregory Hayes, Donald Meineke
and Grant Moss, harpsichords
A. Vivaldi: Gloria in D major, RV
589
The Arcadia Players Baroque
Orchestra and Chorus
Ian Watson, director
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door.
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FUGUES
AND FANTAZIAS
Caswell Library, Deerfield
Academy, Old Main Street
Deerfield MA

Henry Purcell: Fantasies for four viols (1683)
J.S. Bach: Selected Contrapuncti from The Art of
Fugue, BWV 1060
The
culmination of the long English tradition of contrapuntal fantasies for
viols, and portions of Bach’s contrapuntal masterpiece The Art of
Fugue, beautifully suited to a consort of viols, plus other
works by Muffat and Charpentier.
Five College Consort of Viols
Alice Robbins
Meg Pash
Kivie Cahn-Lipman
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MUSIC OF SALAMONE ROSSI
with Cantabile and friends
Saturday,
November 3, at 7:30 PM
Wistariahurst Museum, 238 Cabot St.
Holyoke MA
Sunday, November 4, at 3:00 PM
First Church of Deerfield (“Brick Church”), 71 Old Main St.
Deerfield MA

Salamone Rossi Hebreo: Italian madrigals and canzonets,
sonatas and dances, and Hebrew psalm settings from the cusp of the late
Renaissance and early Baroque periods by Monteverdi’s Jewish colleague.
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HANDEL’S MESSIAH
Saturday, December 15, at 7:30 PM
St. Mary’s Catholic Church, 3 Elm St.
Northampton MA


Sunday, December 16, at 3:00 PM
Old First Church,
Court Square
Springfield MA
Cancelled
due to winter storm
Rescheduled for
Sunday, Dec. 23, at 3:00
PM
Same venue
Ticket holders: Please
contact the Arcadia office by phone or email to confirm your attendance
or ask for a refund
413-534-8888 info[at]arcadiaplayers.org

The
holiday classic, and an
Arcadia Players tradition, returns!
Arcadia Players Baroque Orchestra and Chorus
Ian Watson, Conductor
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is the major sponsor of the Concert Education
Program in the Springfield Public Schools. Other
sponsors: Springfield Cultural Council, Old First Church, Court Square,
the Melanie Kasparian Professional Development Center, the Urban League
of
Springfield’s Foster Grandparent Program, and the American Guild of
Organists. Read more about this
program.
THE ENGLISH ORPHEUS:
English Baroque Chamber Music
Saturday, January 12, at 7:30 PM
with Contemporary Readings
Caswell
Library,
Sunday, January 13, at 3:00 PM,
Wistariahurst Museum, 238 Cabot St.
Holyoke MA

Instrumental
chamber music from 17th-century England including works of Matthew
Locke, Christopher Simpson, William Lawes and Henry Purcell, with
readings selected from English authors of the period.
Dana Maiben, violin
Tina Chancey, violin and viol
Alice Robbins, viol
Gregory Hayes, organ,
with Ian Watson, reader
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ORGAN CONCERT BY IAN WATSON
Free to Subscribers and
Benefactors
Saturday, March 1 at
7:30 p.m.
First Church of Deerfield (“Brick Church”),
71 Old Main St.
Deerfield MA
Pre-concert talk by Ian
Watson at 7:00 PM
A
program featuring arrangements by J.S. Bach for organ of ensemble
concertos by Vivaldi, and works by Frescobaldi, Buxtehude and Froberger.
A reception to meet Watson,
Arcadia Players Board members and friends old and new will take place
after the concert at the Deerfield Inn.
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door. Free to subscribers and benefactors. Go
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ALL-HAYDN CONCERT
Saturday, March 29, at 7:30 PM
Grace Episcopal Church, Boltwood
Ave., by the town common
Amherst MA
Franz Josef Haydn: Symphony
No. 49 in F minor, “La Passione”
F.J. Haydn: Concerto in D major for fortepiano and
orchestra --
Monica Jakuc Leverett, fortepiano
F.J. Haydn: Missa in Angustiis (“Lord Nelson” Mass)
Arcadia Players Orchestra and Chorus
Ian Watson, Conductor
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Arcadia Players and United Congregational
Church, Holyoke present:
Skinner Memorial Chapel
United Congregational Church of Holyoke, 395 High Street
Holyoke MA
This program will also be
presented by Arcadia
Players and the Frederick Historic Piano
Collection on Sunday, May 11,
2008 at 4:00 PM, at Ashburnham Community Church, 9 Chapel Street,
Ashburnham, MA. $10.00 per adult.
Children and students, free.
Franz Josef Haydn:
Trio for flute, cello
and piano
Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin sonata op. 12, no. 2
Beethoven: Variations for cello and piano on
Mozart’s “Bei Männern"
Carl Maria von Weber: Selections
from Ten Scottish Songs (1825)
Lisa Rautenberg,
violin
Kivie Cahn-Lipman,
cello
Monica Jakuc
Leverett, fortepiano
Peter W. Shea, tenor
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door. No tickets.
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