Sweeney Concert Hall, Sage Hall, Smith College
Isidore String Quartet (Valley Classical Concerts)
Sweeney Concert Hall, Sage Hall, Smith College 144 Green Street, Northampton, MA, United StatesSunday, February 1, brings us the impressive young Isidore String Quartet. Winner of the 2022 Banff International String Quartet Competition and a 2023 Avery Fisher Career Grant, they will feature two romantic masterworks, Schubert’s “Rosamunde” Quartet in A Minor and Brahms' Quartet no. 3 in B-flat Major, plus their own quartet arrangements of vocal music […]
Camille Thomas, cello; Julien Brocal, piano (Valley Classical Concerts)
Sweeney Concert Hall, Sage Hall, Smith College 144 Green Street, Northampton, MA, United StatesFranco-Belgian cellist and Deutsche Grammophon recording artist Camille Thomas arrives on Saturday, March 7, joined by the splendid pianist Julien Brocal. Their eclectic program “Rendez-Vous” includes J. S. Bach's third viola da gamba sonata and Edvard Grieg's glorious cello sonata, plus shorter pieces by Satie, Gounod, Saint-Saëns, Thomas and Brocal themselves, and Radiohead. Audience members […]
A Far Cry (Valley Classical Concerts)
Sweeney Concert Hall, Sage Hall, Smith College 144 Green Street, Northampton, MA, United StatesVCC's 2026 season concludes on Saturday, March 21, when the ever-innovative Boston-based chamber orchestra A Far Cry returns. They will open with “SAY,” Shelley Washington’s searing essay on being of mixed race in contemporary America. Copland’s “Appalachian Spring” follows, in its original chamber scoring. The concert concludes with a spectacular 1811 arrangement of Beethoven’s Symphony […]
