The Caroga Arts Ensemble returns to Cooperstown Summer Music Festival this summer, presenting a remarkable musical discovery.
This is the fourth appearance by Caroga Arts Ensemble at Cooperstown Summer Music Festival, which has brought world-class chamber music performances to the Cooperstown area each summer for nearly 30 years.
Founded and directed by cellist Kyle Price, the Caroga Arts Ensemble features a collective of celebrated performers from across the country, such as the KASA Quartet, Cooperstown Summer Music Festival Artistic director Linda Chesis, acclaimed clarinetists Graeme Steele Johnson and Bixby Kennedy, harpist Alix Rapsé Gray and bassist Kit Polen.
This year’s program, titled Caroga Arts Ensemble: Forgotten Sounds, is set for August 13 at 7 p.m. at Fenimore Farm and Country Village. The program will feature Charles Martin Loeffler’s forgotten Octet, a 127-year-old musical piece discovered in the Library of Congress in April of 2020 by Johnson. Johnson then spent four years reconstructing the piece from its original 75-page manuscript to create the first edition of the music to be performed by the Caroga Arts Ensemble.
The program will also feature a combination of the ensemble’s wind, string and harp artistry through performances of various works, such as Debussy’s “Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun”, Ravel’s “Introduction and Allegro” and Poulenc’s “Sonata for Two Clarinets”.
Tickets can be purchased online here and will also be available for sale at the door.
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