2013 Hop River Concert Season begins!!

The 2013 summer season rolls out its schedule with exciting new music mixed with some of our favorite standard warhorses.

 July 11 opens the series with Gary Chapman performing works inspired by the dance of the Tango. Stravinky and Piazzolla (joined by Eric Dahlin) are featured. Thanks to a request from one of our avid audience members, we include the Trio in D Minor by Gabriel Fauré.

July 18 continues with an Americana theme. The Harmonia V woodwind quintet is featured with the soothing sounds of Barber's Summer Music. Gary Chapman compliment the program with American composers Aaron Copland, David Amram, and Frederic Rzewski. The full cast of this program joins forces in Lee Hoiby's Sextet for Winds and Piano.

July 25 draws inspiration from Mozart and Brahms with a fine blend of soprano, piano, strings and French horn augmenting the program with music of Hugo Wolf and Richard Strauss.

This promises to be a fantastic season! Hope to see a full house!

Click on the "2013 summer series" tab above for more details.

Annette and Barbara prepare the Ives Violin Sonata "Children's Day at the Camp Meeting" and are inspired to pose under the Willimantic Camp Meeting sign on Windham Street. 

They have already started rehearsals. Barbara says, "It is a wonderful piece!"

Barbara Wiggin, Gary Chapman, and Tom Labadorf (taking the photo) are beginning rehearsals on the Bruch pieces at the Congregational Church in Andover. What a beautiful work! Very Romantic. We play it this weekend in Norwich at the Park Parlor Chamber Music series. Sunday, June 10, at 2 p.m. 

Look for your new Hop River Chamber Music newsletter coming soon in your snail-mail box!

The programs are in place, concert dates and times set. All that's needed is to practice and rehearse...

Tom unveils the the new Hop River Chamber Players web page at the April board meeting. (Left to right: Gary Chapman, Karl Stetson, Tom Labadorf, Barbara Vaughan, Carolyn Lester, Annette Shapiro, and Jean Lenard. David Vaughan is taking the picture.)

Hop River Chamber Music update

The Hop River Chamber Music board launches its 33rd annual season with organizational meetings to set up the 2012 concert season. We're developing posters, mail flyers, and the printed program, and we catch up to the 21st century with this blog page and the Facebook site at Hop River Chamber Music to spread the good news about live chamber music in eastern Connecticut.

Check out the tabs above for the dates, program selections and bios for this year's series. Visit this and the Facebook sites frequently for the latest updates as we start to rehearse for the concerts.