Maverick Concerts, America’s oldest continuous summer chamber music festival and winner of the Chamber Music America/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming, thrives on the love of great music and the spirit of its unique site in the unspoiled woods. The rustic 1916 concert hall, with its perfect acoustics, is ideally suited to chamber music and the intimacy of live performance.

Music Director Alexander Platt has programmed 24 rich and imaginative concerts for the 10-week 93rd season. A series of four Young People’s Concerts starts midsummer. Visit our Schedule Page for all the 2008 season details.

Maverick Concerts continues the vision of Hervey White, founder of the collaborative Maverick Art Colony. Artists and other volunteers built the hand-hewn “music chapel” in 1916 and the Hall is now a multi-starred attraction on the National Register of Historic Places. Click here to learn more history.

the Hall photographed at dusk by Simon Russell

FROM MUSIC DIRECTOR ALEXANDER PLATT:
As we now embark on another season together of musical discovery, we conclude our observance of the centenary of Gustav Mahler’s arrival in New York—an event from which we may still be feeling the repercussions. As Mahler and Beethoven proved to be such a successful pairing last summer, so do we now celebrate Mahler, his milieu, and the other of his musical leading lights, Franz Schubert.

Much of Schubert’s greatest chamber music will be performed, by such artists as Tokyo, Shanghai, Amernet, and American string quartets, Trio Solisti, and the cello-and-piano duo of Zuill Bailey and Simone Dinnerstein. We will hear Schubert’s cello quintet played by St. Lawrence String Quartet, joined by David Ying, cellist of the Ying Quartet.

Two intimate “Schubertiade” evenings will be given by New York City Opera soprano Nancy Allen Lundy and pianist Marc Peloquin, who, in A Modern Schubertiade, combine the piano music of Schubert and the music of Final Alice’s composer, David Del Tredici.

Viennese chamber music of Mahler’s milieu, composers such as Brahms, Bruckner, Korngold, and the masters of the Second Viennese School will be featured, as played by pianists Frederic Chiu, James Tocco, Babette Hierholzer, and the Miro, Daedalus, Borromeo, and Pacifica string quartets.

Our Mahler observance will have its culmination, when I conduct a Labor Day weekend concert of the Maverick Chamber Players. The program, Mahler and Friends: The Heavenly Life, will feature Mahler’s Fourth Symphony, as arranged for chamber ensemble in 1920 by Erwin Stein. I reconstructed this 15 years ago and it is now a classic of the repertoire. The Mahler Fourth will be appropriately preceded by Mozart’s Exultate, Jubilate, the area premiere of Aaron Jay Kernis’ Simple Songs in their original chamber version, and Erwin Stein’s chamber-ensemble arrangement of the monumental Adagio from the Symphony No. 7 of Mahler’s mentor, Anton Bruckner.

Our eclectic Saturday-night series at the Maverick, Woodstock Legends, continues with a diverse range of legendary artists who call the Woodstock area home, including Frederick Hand, Steve Gorn, String Trio of New York, and Marilyn Crispell.

It will be my great pleasure to welcome you to all of these beautiful concerts!

Alexander Platt

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