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Concert Series
Free Young Persons' Concerts presented with Music for Youth
Concerts are co-sponsored by Music for Youth, Inc. and Pequot Library. Music for Youth is a not-for-profit organization with the goal of bringing classical music, professionally performed, into the lives of young people in Fairfield County. This mission is realized each season with a series of Free Young Persons' Concerts.
September 2012
Sybarite 5, string quintet
Saturday, September 15 at 2:00 pm
October 2012
Andrew Tyson, piano
Saturday, October 20 at 2:00 pm
November 2012
Paul Huang, violin
Saturday, November 10 at 2:00 pm
December 2012
Romie DeGuise Langlois, clarinet
Saturday, December 8 at 2:00 pm
January 2013
Amphion String Quartet
Saturday, January 5 at 2:00 pm
February 2013
Alek Schrader, tenor
Saturday, February 9 at 2:00 pm
March 2013
American Brass Quintet
Saturday, March 16 at 2:00 pm
April 2013
Alex Moutouzkine, piano
Saturday, April 20 at 2:00 pm
For more information please contact Cynthia Cummiskey: 203-938-3843; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ; www.musicforyouth.net
Marianne Liberatore, 1928 - 2012. It is with real sadness that Pequot Library notes the passing of Marianne Liberatore. She was an incredibly effective driving force for classical music in Southern Connecticut. In 1995, she established the Free Young Persons’ Concert Series at Pequot Library. After 17 seasons, this is still the most successful concert series for young people in the tri-state area. In addition, Music for Youth has been sponsoring musicians to work in residency with deserving students in area schools since 1995, focusing particularly in the last eight years on under-served young people in the Bridgeport school system. Marianne and Music for Youth also established an annual college scholarship for graduates of the Fairfield public schools who continue their musical studies beyond high school. All of these programs begun under Marianne’s leadership will continue into the future, a lasting tribute to her years of hard work and dedication to the arts in Fairfield County.
Marianne will be missed deeply by the staff at Pequot Library with whom she worked for all those years.
Friends of Music at Pequot Library Concert Series
2012-2013 Concert Season:
Friday, September 7th at 7:30 pm
Music by the Integers: Trio-Quartet-Quintet, Part II
Our season opens with an encore of the extraordinary concert given last Spring by pianist Eugene Sirotkine and friends. Based on the sequence Trio-Quartet-Quintet and introduced by a pair of preludes and fugues, it offered lesser known treasures of chamber music. This season, their program includes Beethoven’s last piano trio, Schubert’s exquisite movement for an unfinished string quartet and Brahms’s monumental quintet, one of the greatest masterpieces in all chamber music.
Friday, October 19th at 7:30 pm
Orchestra as Actor: The Invention of the Classical Symphony, Part II
The Sebastian Players are now familiar to the Friends of Music. Their concert in April explored the origins of the Classical symphony and featured a concerto for clarinet. This season Sebastian brings a new exploration of the Classical symphony, this time with Mozart’s clarinet concerto and one of his finest symphonies. These works will be re-discovered in our concert as they will be played on the instru-ments used in Mozart’s orchestras. The ensemble will include pairs of flutes, oboes, bassoons and natural horns plus strings and harpsichord.
Friday, December 7th at 7:30 pm
Music for the English Theater: Henry Purcell
Eugene Sirotkine returns for our third concert, this time as conductor of a choral and instrumental ensemble with outstanding soloists to present a program of music written for the English theatre. The music is by Henry Purcell, the most important of all English composers, and lyrics by his contemporaries including Dryden, Blow, Tate and D’Urfey. This will be a magical concert of delightful music, sometimes saucy, sometimes deeply emotional, always beautiful.
Thursday, May 2, 2013 at 7:30 pm
Johann Sebastian Bach and His Predecessors
The fourth concert of the season will present vocal and instrumental music of Johann Sebastian Bach and his contemporaries. Performed by the ensemble TENET.
Supporting the Friends of Music:
From the beginning, music has been an important part of Pequot Library’s mission, and the Friends of Music series has raised the standards for musical performance here. Our first season was a success, but we cannot continue to produce concerts of the same caliber without additional support, above and beyond the sale of tickets. Your generosity will help ensure the continued success of the Friends of Music at Pequot Library.
Donations in support of the Friends of Music will underwrite the cost of the concerts, and we are offering three levels of giving this year:
- Patron (donations of $1000 and above)
- Benefactor (donations of $500 to $999)
- Sponsor (donations of $250 to $499).
To recognize your support, we will list the names of the Friends of Music in the program for each concert of the 2012-13 season (unless you prefer to remain anonymous).
Location and Pricing:
Performances will be held in the Auditorium.
General admission is $30.00 per concert; Pequot Library Association members at the Advocate level or above will be offered a discount.
For additional information, contact the Library at (203) 259-0346 ext.12.
Westport Arts Center
The Westport Arts Center and Pequot Library share a long history of jointly sponsored jazz concerts known as “Jazz to the Max.” This tradition continues with a current jazz series as well as a new chamber music series. The 2010/2011 season introduced the chamber music series which continues this season with three outstanding musicians, Frederick Chiu and Andrew Russo playing dual pianos, and Narek Arutyunian on clarinet. Please see below for more information.
October 21, 2012 3 - 5 pm
Frederick Chiu and Andrew Russo, pianists
Tickets: $25 for Adults; $10 for College Students; $5 for Youths
Available through Westport Arts Center or at the door.
$20 for Pequot Library Association members at the door only.
Sunday, February 10, 2013 3 - 5 pm
Narek Arutyunian, clarinetist
Tickets: $25 for Adults; $10 for College Students; $5 for Youths
Available through Westport Arts Center or at the door.
$20 for Pequot Library Association members at the door only.
For more information please contact the Westport Arts Center at (203) 222-7070.
