Take3, from Bach to Rock
Take3, a violin, cello and piano trio, merges Elvis and the Beatles with Bach and Beethoven, at the intersection where pop, rock and classical collide. Described by audiences as a mini Trans Siberian Express, Take3 has electrified audiences at venues and performing arts centers throughout the US, occupying the intersection where pop, rock and classical collide.
Windborne
The four-member vocal group Windborne are adherents to folk music’s longtime alliance with social activism, labor and civil rights, and other movements that champion the oppressed, the poor, and the disenfranchised. Their songs, although penned decades or even centuries ago, still ring true in modern times.
Orchestra New England
Woodwind members from the Orchestra New England will join us for a presentation of holiday music for woodwind quintet, keyboard, and percussion. The program will include arrangements of music from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Ballet, Vaughan Williams' Greensleeves, traditional seasonal carols, and other holiday favorites.
The Danish String Quartet
It is not hyperbole to say that the Danish String Quartet has taken the classical music world by storm over the last 10 years. A recent New York Times article noted that “the Danish play as if they have abandoned their individual personalities...as if they were joined on a single instrument armed with four bows.”
Program:
Haydn: Quartet op 20.3Stravinsky: Three Pieces for String Quartet I. Danse II. Excentrique III. CantiqueTurlough O'Carolan: Three melodies: Mabel Kelly Planxty Kelly Carolan’s Quarrel with the LandladyMozart: Divertimento in F-major K. 138Schubert: String Quartet no. 15 in G-major D. 887
Alex Cuba Band
Alex Cuba, singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, was born in Cuba, and has lived in Vancouver, Canada since 1999. It was there that his music began to move away from the more traditional aspects of the Cuban sound into a pop, funk, and jazz-fusion direction. The recipient of a Grammy award in 2022, and the Canadian Juno Award several times, Alex is the son of a music teacher and grew up performing from an early age. The Series’s first foray into Hispanic music brings renewed excitement to this season.