The Opening Concert of
Sevenars Music Festival’s 57th anniversary season
offers exciting masterpieces for piano solo, piano duo, and violin/piano duo,
with special tribute to Maurice Ravel and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
for their 150th anniversaries!
Sunday, July 13, at 4PM
Sevenars Academy
15 Ireland Street
(just off Rte. 112 at Ireland Street)
South Worthington, Massachusetts
Admission: No tickets or charge, as ever, but donations welcomed at the door (suggested $20). Refreshments are free.
Stellar guest artists will be pianist/composer Clifton J. (“Jerry”) Noble and violinist Alexis Walls, joining Sevenars family members Rorianne Schrade, Lynelle James, and Christopher James, who will all play the hall’s magnificent Steinway concert grand.
The program will open with Lynelle James and Rorianne Schrade performing a specially arranged duo of Coleridge-Taylor. The music continues with Christopher Janes playing one of Liszt’s most exciting of the Transcendental Etudes, Wild Jagd (“Wild Hunt”).
To honor Ravel, there will be his Gaspard de la Nuit played by Lynelle James, the deliciously bluesy Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano played by Alexis Walls with Lynelle, and La Valse played by Rorianne Schrade.
Rorianne will also join Clifton J. Noble for the finale of Percy Grainger’s Porgy and Bess Fantasy based on Gershwin’s iconic opera. Welcome, all!
Looking ahead:
- July 20, 4pm: Sevenars welcomes revered violist The Sullivan String Quartet in Dvorak, Haydn, and Ravel String Quartets.
- July 27, 4pm: Sevenars presents Springfield Chamber Players Clarinet Quintet in Vaughan Williams, Bernard Hermann, Alexander Borodin, and Paul Chihara. This concert will be dedicated to the memory of Mark Auerbach, dear friend of Sevenars and inimitable and passionate advocate for the arts.
- August 3, 4pm: Sevenars hosts internationally renowned cellist Inbal Segev in Bach Cello Suites (2,4, and 6).
- August 10: Outstanding “Young Artist to Watch” pianist Ching-Yi Lin, plays music of Bach, Schumann, and Ravel.
- August 17: The Sevenars season is capped of with the inimitable jazz of Jerry Noble, Kara Noble, Chris Devine, and John Van Eps.
This 2025 season is made possible by generous individual donors, the volunteer efforts of Sevenars Directors, and by the LCC’s (Local Cultural Councils) of the following towns:
Amherst, Becket, Blandford, Chesterfield, Goshen, Huntington, Lee, Middlefield, Montgomery, Russell, Westhampton, West Springfield, and Worthington.
These LCC’s are local agencies which are funded in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts.