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2024 - 2025 Season
Sunday, April 27, 2025 2-4 PM The Robert Frost Foundation and Essex Chamber Music Players
present
Robert Frost Music and Poetry Festival with
Melopeia
Actor Gordon Clapp as Robert Frost
Essex Chamber Music Players
Robert Lee Frost American Poet (1874 – 1963)
Admission Free
Lawrence Public Library 51 Lawrence St., Lawrence, MA 01841
Sponsors Massachusetts Cultural Council, Lawrence Local Cultural Council Advertisers, and Donors
Children 7-12 yrs. old accompanied by an adult are welcome
*Program*
Melopeia
1. Silken Tent 2. The Oven Bird 3. Tree at My Window
Rhina Espaillat recites Frost’s poems in Spanish and Alfred Nicole in English with John Tavano’s guitar accompaniment
Robert Frost: This Verse Business
Play by A. M. Dolan (Act one)
Gordon Clapp, actor
of NYPD Blue
Poems included in the play:
Death of a Hired Man Stopping By the Woods The Road Not Taken Birches
-Intermission-
Essex Chamber Music Players
Three Rustic Songs for Soprano, Alto Flute/Flute, Clarinet in A, Violin, Cello, and Piano
by Stephen James
1. The Quest of the Purple-Fringed 2. The Sound of Trees 3. Acceptance
Close The Windows
Settings of poems of Robert Frost for Baritone, Flute, Cello, and Piano
by
David Bennett Thomas
l. Summer- “Blueberries” II. Fall- “November” lll. Winter- “Now Close the Windows” lV. Spring- “A Prayer in Spring”
Two Settings of Poems by Robert Frost: Fire and Ice, and Birches for Baritone, Flute, Violin, Cello, and Piano
by
Michael G. Finegold
l. Fire and Ice II. Birches
ECMP Performers:
David Thomas Mathers- Baritone Barbara Kilduff- Soprano Michael Finegold- Flute Kristian Baverstam- Clarinet Daniel Kurganov- Violin Daniel Lelchuk- Cello Constantine Finehouse- Piano
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