Robert Frost Poetry and Music Festival

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)

Actor Gordon Clapp  of NYPD Blue

Poems included in the play: Death of a Hired Man, Stopping By the Woods, The Road Not Taken, Birches

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