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Sunday – DaPonte String Quartet (New Date)
August 30, 2020 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Maine’s 200th: Music of Early Maine”
New Date: Sunday, August 30th, 4:00pm – Outdoor Concert
8 Cross Road, Surry, Maine – Free Admission!
Reserve your seat here: https://surryartsandevents.typeform.com/to/MQJ4CIic
Please note, this program is a special offering carefully crafted by the DaPonte String Quartet to celebrate Maine’s 200th anniversary. Composers and selections date back as far as the 15th century. They also include Indigenous Maine tribal music.
We are so grateful to the DaPonte String Quartet, The Maine 200th Commission, and the Surry Celebrates Maine 200th! Committee. Surry Arts delighted to collaborate with all these fine entities.
Performance Program:
Songs of Chief Membertou
Kaxarranka
Imperii proceres
Four Songs from Canconiero de Palacio
Sir Walter Raleigh’s Galliard
A Sad Pavane for these distracted times
Les Bergers et Les Ameriquaines
Ballo del granduca
Concert pour Quatre Parties de Violes
The Birks of Abergeldie
“Little Ben” A Country Dance
Prelude from Te Deum
Violinists Lydia Forbes and Ferdinand “Dino” Liva; Violist Kirsten Monke; and cellist Myles Jordan. The DSQ was formed in Philadelphia in 1991 and came to Maine in 1995 on a Rural Residency Grant from the NEA and Chamber Music America.