Arts

Benefit concert tops bill at Marlboro Music

MARLBORO-The penultimate weekend of the 2024 Marlboro Music Festival offers a full slate of open rehearsals and three essential concert programs, with 25 resident artists performing masterpieces and rarely heard works.

On Friday, Aug. 2, at 8 p.m., Marlboro Music gives back to the local community with its annual town benefit concert in Persons Auditorium. All proceeds from this performance support Marlboro town organizations.

Audiences for the Saturday and Sunday concerts will hear co-Artistic Director Mitsuko Uchida performing Schubert's setting of Goethe's "Grenzen der Menschheit" with Swiss bass-baritone Evan Luca Gray and Dvořák's Piano Quintet in A major, Op. 81, B. 155 with three young string players and senior cellist Alice Neary, formerly of the Gould Piano Trio.

The weekend programs also include music by Beethoven, Loeffler, Fauré, Kurtág, Bartók, and Brahms performed by ensembles of emerging artists and senior musicians such as violinist Joseph Lin, violists Misha Amory and Hsin-Yun Huang, cellist Peter Myers, and pianist Juho Pohjonen.

Some tickets are available for Friday and Saturday evening's concert. Tickets are $20-40 and may be purchased at marlboromusic.org or by calling the Marlboro box office at 802-254-2394. Sunday's performance is sold out; a waiting list is maintained for returned tickets.

All events take place in Persons Auditorium, on the Potash Hill campus in Marlboro. Audience members may contact the Marlboro reception desk for more information: 802-254-2394 or [email protected].


This Arts item was submitted to The Commons.

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