This year’s Buzzards Bay Musicfest will feature five very different programs and a new start time for the evening concerts – 7:30 pm. The festival will also open its doors on Wednesday afternoon, July 10 at 2:00 pm, to give everyone a chance to experience an open rehearsal. The world-class musicians that make up the Buzzards Bay Musicfest will perform a variety of repertoire, but the orchestral concerts will have a theme: Season of “Firsts.” The orchestra will explore first symphonies of Mozart, Schumann and Brahms as well as Beethoven’s 1st Piano Concerto with Cynthia Raim as the soloist on the Wednesday concert. On the Sunday afternoon concert, Jennifer Gunn (flute) and Rita Costanzi (harp) will be featured in the Mozart Concerto for Flute, Harp and Orchestra. On the same program, pianist David Allen Wehr will interpret the Symphonic Variations for Piano and Orchestra by César Franck with its fantastically exuberant ending. The orchestra concerts are Wednesday, July 10 at 7:30 pm and Sunday, July 14 at 2:00 pm. The two chamber concerts will offer a uniquely intimate rendering of works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Antonin Dvořák, Jean Françaix, Philippe Gaubert, Marjan Mozetich and David Popper. From string quartets to piano quintets to wind quartets, the eclectic collections of small ensembles lead to a wonderfully tasteful programing variety that is sure to delight. The chamber concerts are Thursday, July 11 at 7:30 pm and Saturday, July 13 at 7:30 pm.
The Buzzards Bay Musicfest Swing Band will present a program of music by three prominent jazz icons of the mid-twentieth century entitled “Miles, Monk and Mingus.” This 10-piece jazz ensemble will venture into the unlimited possibilities of improvisation and written arrangements that these three masters have unleashed in an amazing collection of works. The jazz concert is Friday, July 12 at 7:30 pm.
All concerts are free admission and will be in the Fireman Performing Arts Center at Hoyt Hall on the campus of Tabor Academy, 245 Front St., Marion, MA 02738. Please visit www.buzzardsbaymusicfest.com/ for more detailed information.