August 4:  Music from the Middle Ages. The Boston-based vocal ensemble Blue Heron will present ”A French Songbook, c. 1350–1470, from Machaut to Okeghem,“ with singers Sophie Michaux and Jason McStoots along with Charles Weaver on lute and Scott Metcalfe playing harp and fiddle.

 

August 11: The Ying Quartet: Robin Scott and Janet Ying, violins; Phillip Ying, viola; David Ying, cello. They will perform Béla Bartók’s string quartet no. 2; Derek Bermel’s Songs of Nameless Ancestors; Antonín Dvořák’s string quartet in F major, Op. 96, “American.”

August 18: The Verona Quartet: Jonathan Ong and Dorothy Ro, violins;  Abigail Rojansky, viola; Jonathan Dormand, cello. They will perform Maurice Ravel’s string quartet in G major; a suite of American jazz standards: Duke Ellington’s “Cotton Club Stomp,” Donald Heywood’s “I'm Coming Virginia,” Bix Beiderbecke’s “In the Dark,” Vincent Youmans’s “Tea for Two”; Dmitri Shostakovich’s string quartet no. 9.

August 25: The Hartford Symphony Orchestra Brass Quintet; John Charles Thomas and Kenny Piatt, trumpets; Barbara Hill, horn; Brian Diehl, trombone; Jarrod Briley, tuba. Program to be announced.

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October 3: World-renowned double bassist and Plainfield resident Avery Sharpe will return with his double quartet (string quartet, double bass, piano, percussion, African drums) to reprise his composition “I Am My Neighbor's Keeper.”