Music for the 21st Century
Treasures of the Past
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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
*Program*
Melopeia “The Dimished Prophets”
1. A Minor Bird
2. The Oven Bird
3. Tree at My Window
4. Silken Tent
Robert Frost:
This Verse Business
Play by
A. M. Dolan
(Act one)
Poems included in the play:
-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
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
