Delaware Chamber Music Festival

Delaware Chamber Music Festival 2009

 

The 24^th annual Delaware Chamber Music Festival starts Friday, June 19 at 7:30 at the Wilmington Music School.  The festival core group consists of  Barbara Govatos, violin, Hirono Oka, violin, Burchard Tang, viola and Clancy Newman, cello.

 

Outstanding guest artists join them for the two-week festival, Charles Abramovic, piano, Frank Ferraro, trumpet, Marcantonio Barone, piano, Yumi Kendall, cello, Igor Begelman, clarinet,  John Koen, Cello,  Carla Dirlikov, mezzo-soprano,  Jeffrey Lang, horn,  John-Andrew Fernandez, baritone,  Pablo Zinger, piano and Pamela Fay, viola.

 

Music director Barbara Govatos, a native of Delaware, welcomes audiences with a warmth and humor that invites you to enjoy the music.

 

June 19 and June 26 at 7:30 p.m.

June 21 and 28 at 3 p.m.

 

See www.dcmf.org for details.  

July 4th musical salute

Before the fireworks at Wilmington's Riverfront, hear the Delaware Symphony Orchestra and Delaware Valley Chorale do patriotic music at 8:30 p.m. July 4. Bring blankets and lawn chairs to Tubman-Garrett Park for the 8:30 p.m. concert. It's all free.

WDEL 1150 AM radio will broadcast the concert live that night too.

The orchestra plays Hollywood hits July 11 at the Freeman Center at Bayside, 4 miles west of Fenwick Island at the intersection of routes 54 and 20. This concert's at 7 p.m. -- with a July 12 rain date. It's also free.

3 Arty Things You Need to Know

I love promoting new, unique, or "underground" projects. While I don't consider these "underground", I do believe more people should discover them!

1. DHF Books & Authors Series
Delaware Humanities Forum features City Theater Company actors in a monthly book discussion series called Interpreting Dreams. The first of three programs starts June 19 at 7:00pm at Ameritage Bistro, featuring Song Yet Sung by James McBride, which details the story of runaway slaves. CTC favorite, actor TS Baynes, will no doubt give another of her dynamic performances for the reading that kicks off the program. Also, percussionist Kamau Ngom performs African drum music and talks about connections among blues music, country shouts, and the Underground Railroad.

See http://www.city-theater.org/ or http://www.dhf.org/.

2. New Wilmington Art Association
This group of contemporary artists has steadily created buzz, and I couldn’t be more jazzed to see their work — sculpture, installation, photography, video and more — arrive on the Wilmington art scene. It’s refreshing, thrilling, sometimes even bewildering — and you need to see it all. NWAA member Ron Longsdorf has a solo exhibition in DDOA’s Mezzanine Gallery through July 17. But July’s Art on the Town (7/3) will see a massive group show from NWAA members at 605 Market. Get there!

See http://newwilmingtonart.blogspot.com/.

3. Brandywine Guitar Quartet
The group features a fave musician of mine: guitarist, composer and teacher Chris Braddock. All its members are classically educated and accomplished performers and instructors around the region, and they’ve joined forces to perform a range of music including classical, jazz, flamenco, and more. Check them out August 9 at 6:00 p.m. at the Cecil County Summer Music Concert Series at Pell Gardens in Chesapeake City, MD.

See www.myspace.com/brandywineguitarquartet or http://www.braddockmusic.com/