Some familiar faces will be joining the Fry Street Quartet at the Market Square Concerts’ Summermusic Festival 2009 starting this week, including Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra Conductor and pianist Stuart Malina, HSO concertmaster Odin Rathnam and pianist Michael Sheppard, who appeared in the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra’s spring chamber music series here. Also slated to perform are oboist Gerard Reuter and bassist Donovan Stokes.
Here’s the lineup.
Wednesday, July 22: String Quartet Op. 18 No. 5 by Beethoven, the Schubert Variations by Leone Sinigaglia and Shostakovich’s Piano Quintet. The concert begins at 6 p.m. in Market Square Church, 2nd and Chestnut sts. in Harrisburg.
Saturday, July 25: String Quartet Op. 18 No. 4 by Beethoven, Rhapsodies for Piano and Oboe by Charles Loeffler and the Concerto for Violin, Piano and String Quartet by Ernest Chausson. The concert begins at 8 p.m. at Glen Allen Mill in Mechanicsburg, which is located on the Yellow Breeches Creek on McCormick Road between Lisburn and Bowmansdale. Concertgoers are invited to picnic on the grounds beginning at 6 p.m.
Sunday, July 26: the Oboe d’Amore Concerto by J.S. Bach, String Quartet OP. 18 No. 2 by Beethoven and Schubert’s “Trout” Quintet. This concert will take place at 4 p.m. at Glen Allen Mill, and this time people can picnic after the concert.
For more information check the Market Square Concerts Web site (and, for details about the music, the blog by Dick Strawser on that site) or call 221-9599.
