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Bar Harbor Music Festival: FESTIVAL GALA
Date and Time
Sunday Jul 25, 2021
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM EDTSunday, July 25 at 8:00 p.m.
Location
1932 Criterion Theatre
35 Cottage StreetBar Harbor, MaineFees/Admission
Tickets are $30, $15 for students. Pops, Jazz, and Gala tickets are $45. Opera tickets are $35, $50, and $80. All tickets entitle the purchaser to a reserved seat. A Season Subscription for $350 saves 20% off the single reserved ticket price for the best seats, as well as entrée to rehearsals and lecture-demonstrations.Contact Information
For tickets and information, visit: www.barharbormusicfestival.org or contact: Bar Harbor Music Festival/The Rodick Building/59 Cottage Street/Bar Harbor, Maine 04609-1800/Telephone: 207-288-5744; email: info@barharbormusicfestival.org. Tickets are available online at www.barharbormusicfestival.org.
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Description
On Sunday, July 25th, the Festival presents the Festival Gala at the Criterion Theatre at 8pm, at 35 Cottage St. This year’s Gala concert will take place without the customary buffet dinner, due to COVID restrictions. Mozart’s shining Divertimento K. 167 opens the program, followed by a repeat performance of the Scarmolin Sinfonietta in A Major, Op. 168, conducted by Jeffrey Ellenberger. The first half will close with a loving tribute performance of the Barber “Adagio” for Strings, in memory of Festival friend and major donor, Edward “Ted” Wells. The second half of the concert brings Festival favorite, pianist Christopher Johnson, back to the Criterion for the Concerto Grosso for Piano and Strings by Ernest Bloch. The Ernest Bloch Concerto Grosso No. 1 is a large-scale post Romantic work for string orchestra and piano, where the composer surely exceeded expectations of proving that tonal music could be fresh in 1925. From the opening splash chords in the piano to the soaring melodies in the strings, the work is indeed rich in exploring some of the rarely heard modes existing between Major and Minor, and it culminates with one of the most impressive fugues since the fugues of J. S. Bach.
FESTIVAL GALA
BAR HARBOR FESTIVAL STRING ORCHESTRA
FRANCIS FORTIER, Conductor
JEFFREY ELLENBERGER, Assistant Conductor
CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON, Piano Soloist
Music by Mozart, Scarmolin, Barber, and Bloch
“MASTER CONDUCTOR FRANCIS FORTIER … MASTER’S TOUCH RESOUNDS.”
– YORK DAILY RECORD, PENNSYLVANIA
Cash Bar and Refreshments Available
The 1932 Criterion Theatre, 35 Cottage Street
