Music on the Hill’s 2021 Festival Continues - New Dates
Saturday, July 31, 2021
Music on the Hill invites audiences to share chamber music, presenting four indoor concerts just before Labor Day. Programs feature portions of 2020’s postponed festival, in shorter concerts without intermissions. The one-hour concerts are presented without intermission, in East Greenwich, Cranston and Westerly:
- Sunday, August 29, 3:00 pm, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 99 Peirce St., East Greenwich: music of Bach for soprano, oboe, strings, and organ
- Monday, August 30, 7:00 pm, Immaculate Conception Church, 237 Garden Hills Dr., Cranston: violin concerti by Mozart and Evan Price
- Wednesday, September 1, 7:00 pm, Dunn’s Corners Community Church, 221 Post Rd., Westerly: Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto and Brahms’ Two Songs for Contralto with Cello Obligato
- Friday, September 3, 7:00 pm, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 99 Peirce St., East Greenwich: Evan Price’s innovative arrangements of Bach’s Partita No. 2 for Violin and Debussy’s Claire de Lune, and music of Ravel and Dave Anderson
Tickets are just $20, free for students with I.D.
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GLAD TO BE BACH Sunday, August 29, 3:00 pm
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 99 Peirce Street, East Greenwich
J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
Violin Sonata No. 1 in G minor BMV 1001
Stephen Goist, viola
David Walter (1913-2003)
Prelude: Homage a Casals
John M. Pellegrino, bass
J.S. Bach
“Die Seele ruht in Jesu Handen,” BWV 127
Diana McVey, soprano; Jane Murray, oboe; Patrick Aiken, organ
J.S. Bach
Cello Suite No. 6 in D Major BWV 1012
Trevor Handy, cello
IN MOZART’S FOOTSTEPS Monday, August 30, 7:00 pm
Immaculate Conception Church, 237 Garden Hills Drive, Cranston
W. A. Mozart (1756-1791) (arr. Price) Concerto No. 3 for Violin and Strings in G major, K 216
Evan Price (b. 1971)
Concerto for Jazz Violin, Strings, and Piano
Evan Price, solo violin; Anton Miller, Katherine Winterstein, Liana Zaretsky, violins; Rita Porfiris and Stephen Goist, violas; Elisa Kohanski and Trevor Handy, cellos; Gregg August, bass
BEETHOVEN AND BRAHMS Wednesday, September 1, 7:00 pm
Dunn’s Corners Community Church, 221 Post Road, Westerly
Giovanni Bottesini (1821-1889)
Elegy
John M. Pellegrino, bass and Bonnie Anderson, piano
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Two Songs for Contralto with Cello Obligato
Mary Phillips, mezzo-soprano; Elisa Kohanski, cello; Bonnie Anderson, piano
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Concerto for Piano No. 4 in G major
Joseph Kalichstein, piano
Anton Miller and Katherine Winterstein, violins; Rita Porfiris, viola; Trevor Handy, cello; John M. Pellegrino, bass
BAROQUE AND BEYOND Friday, September 3, 7:00 pm
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 99 Peirce Street, East Greenwich
Claude Debussy (1862-1918) (arr. E. Price)
Claire de Lune
Evan Price, violin; Stephen Goist, viola; Elisa Kohanski, cello; Gregg August, bass
J. S. Bach (1685-1750) (arr. E. Price)
Partita No. 2 for Violin and Bass in D minor
Evan Price, violin; Gregg August, bass
Dave Anderson (b. 1949)
Three Double Bass Duets
I. Parade of Politically Prudent Pigs II. Blue Cheese III. Rush Hour
Gregg August and John M. Pellegrino, bass
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Mother Goose Suite
Evan Price, violin; Stephen Goist, viola; Trevor Handy, cello; John M. Pellegrino, bass