CURBSIDE AT HARBORSIDE RETURNS WITH SUMMER CONCERTS
Ensemble of North Country Professionals Opens Season on June 5
North Country music lovers will welcome live musical performances back to Plattsburgh this summer with the return of “Curbside At Harborside,” a full season of concerts by locally based, top-caliber artists and arts organizations taking place at the U.S. Oval Gazebo and Plattsburgh’s Harborside Stage.
Trillium Ensemble, a trio comprised of clarinetist Janine Scherline, oboist Janice Kyle, and pianist Timothy Mount, will open the season with a program of beautiful chamber music for an early summer evening, performing on June 5 at 7:30 p.m. in the historic U.S. Oval Gazebo, located near the Plattsburgh Memorial Chapel on the site of the former Plattsburgh Air Force Base.
The repertoire performed by these three professional players, all of whom live in the North Country, spans from the Baroque to the Romantic Era to the present day, offering a delectable menu of sonic treats guaranteed to please any listener.
Scherline and Mount open the evening with Paul Reade’s delightful Suite from The Victorian Kitchen Garden, instantly transporting listeners across the Atlantic Ocean to England. Fans of the Antiques Roadshow may find Reade’s sonic palette familiar, as he composed (with Tim Gibson) the theme music for this popular television program. For The Victorian Kitchen Garden, a BBC2 series from the late-1980s, Reade won the Ivor Novello award for creating this tender, flowing music, crafting memorable melodies with lightness and vitality.
Kyle and Mount join forces for Tomaso Albinoni’s Oboe Concerto No. 6, a breathtaking work that maintains the same luster today that it possessed in the eighteenth century. The oboist and pianist combine again to present two Romances authored by the revered writer Robert Schumann, created by the composer as gifts for his wife, Clara, during one of the most productive years of Schumann’s career.
The three players come together for Aram Khachaturian’s Trio for Clarinet, Violin, and Piano, with Kyle taking over the violin part on her oboe. Filled with highly ornamented, gypsy-like themes, the Armenian composer’s composition practically pulsates with vibrant colors. Khachaturian authored this work while still a student.
Posted: May 18th, 2021 under Arts and Entertainment, General News, Northern NY News.