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Past concerts

Season 2, July 2024

Poetic Muses

Music inspired by the poetry of Petrarch, Dorothy Parker and Anna Akhmatova

featuring Suzanne Farrin’s corpo di terra, Sarah Gibson’s The Boys are There, and Sir John Tavener’s Akhmatova Songs

Wednesday July 10, 2024 at 6:30 pm / Jesup Memorial Library / Bar Harbor

Thursday July 11, 2024 at 7:30 pm / St. Mary’s by-the-Sea / Northeast Harbor

Community

Works by young American composers reflecting on community dynamics, spaces, and practices,

featuring a world premiere for strings, clarinet, cimbalom and piano by Maine composer Conrad Winslow

and music by Carlos Simon, inti figgis-vizueta, and Gabriella Smith

Wednesday July 17, 2024 at 7:00 pm / Stonington Opera House / Stonington

Thursday July 18, 2024 at 7:30 pm / St. Mary’s by-the-Sea / Northeast Harbo

Sunday July 21, 2024 at 7:30 pm / Waldo Theater / Waldoboro

Season 1, July 2023

Isolation/Togetherness

featuring Caroline Shaw’s in manus tuas, Mikhail Johnson “Evil's Peak,” György Kurtág’s “Scenes from a Novel,” and Jessie Montgomery’s Duo for violin and cello

Friday July 7, 2023 at 7:30 pm / St. Mary’s Church / Northeast Harbor

Saturday July 8, 2023 at 7:30 pm / Blue Hill Congregational Church / Blue Hill

Celestial Bodies

featuring Brett Dean’s “Voices of Angels,” Stephen Hartke’s “King of the Sun,” Libby Larsen’s “Up, Where the Air Gets Thin,” and a world premiere by DownEast New Music pianist Danny Holt

Friday July 14, 2023 at 7:30 pm / Blue Hill Congregational Church / Blue Hill

Saturday July 15, 2023 at 3:30 pm / Jesup Memorial Library / Bar Harbor*