More Concerts from SSMF

The 60th anniversary of the Sewanee Summer Music Festival will continue its second week with a Faculty Chamber Music Concert at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, June 25, in Guerry Auditorium. Ingolf Dahl’s “Music for Brass Instruments “ and Schubert’s “String Quintet in C Major, Op. 163, D 956” will be performed. This faculty chamber concert is free and open to the public.
Sunday, June 26 has several events. SSMF will present the first Sunday afternoon “Diversions,” (see page 5) free guided tours of the highlights of Sewanee beginning at 1 p.m. A complete list of tours is also available at <ssmf.sewanee.edu>. The Leonidas Polk Carillon will be at 2:15 p.m., with Richard Shadinger, carillonneur. Selections include “Overture to Colas Breugnon” and “Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia” from “Spartacus Suite.”
The Cumberland Orchestra, Margery Deutsch conducting, will play on Sunday, June 26, in Guerry Auditorium at 3 p.m., featuring pieces by Dimitri Kabalevsky, Aram Khachaturian and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. The Sewanee Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Danail Rachev, will perform at 4 p.m. including “Sensemayá” by Silvestre Revueltas and Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64. Tickets are $15 and available at the door. Children accompanied by an adult are free.
A Student Chamber Music Concert will take place Tuesday, June 28 at 8:15 p.m. in Warren Chapel at the Monteagle Sunday School Assembly. The concert is free and open to the public.
A Faculty Chamber Music Concert will be performed at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, June 29 in Guerry Auditorium. On the program are Camille Saint-Saëns’ “Fantaisie for Violin and Harp, Op. 124,” Jean-Michel Damase’s “17 Variations for Wind Quintet, Op. 22,” Mozart’s “Piano Quartet in G Minor, K. 478” and a newly commissioned work by Sidney King specifically for the music festival.
On Thursday, June 30, at 5.30 p.m. the Sewanee Summer Music Festival Brass will perform at Angel Park in downtown Sewanee. Selections will be announced from the stage. Please bring a lawn chair or blanket to sit on.
The first of two special performances designed for children will be presented on Saturday, July 2 at 3 p.m. in Convocation Hall. “SSMF for Kids” will be presented by the bassoon and string bass studios under the guidance of the artist-faculty. Ice cream will be served. Following the demonstration, a Student Chamber Music Concert will take place at 4 p.m. in Guerry Garth. The performance will include Frank Proto’s “Trio for Violin, Viola, and Double Bass” and Felix Mendelssohn’s “Octet in E flat Major, Op. 20.”
A Faculty Chamber Music Concert will be at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, July 2 in Guerry Auditorium. The program includes Frank Proto’s “Trio for Violin, Viola, and Double Bass,” William Grant Still’s “Incantation and Dance,” and Felix Mendelssohn’s “Octet in E flat Major, Op. 20.”
The Cumberland Orchestra, followed by the Sewanee Symphony Orchestra, will close the second week of the music festivities with a performance in Gerry Auditorium on Sunday, July 3 at 3 p.m. Troy Peters, music director of Youth Orchestras of San Antonio, will conduct the Cumberland Orchestra in their performance of Giuseppi Verdi’s “Overture to Nabucco,” Missy Mazzoli’s “These Worlds in Us” and Edvard Grieg’s “Norwegian Dances, Op. 35.” The Sewanee Symphony Orchestra will perform at 4 p.m., conducted by Robert Moody, music director of the Winston-Salem Symphony and the Portland Symphony Orchestra. The Sewanee Symphony Orchestra will perform “Desert Transport” by Mason Bates and “Symphony No. 10 in E Minor, Op. 93” by Dmitri Shostakovich.
To purchase season or individual concert tickets or for more information about the Sewanee Summer Music Festival, visit <http://ssmf.sewanee.edu>.