Gary Borisy & Sally Casper
and
Catherine Cramer & Steve Uzzo

Invite you to a

Piano Concert by

Maxim Lando

Friday, August 18th

7:30PM
(doors open at 7:00 pm)

Catherine Cramer's House
50 Buzzards Bay Ave
Woods Hole

Please join us in Catherine's wonderful house for an evening of piano music. As space is limited, we ask that you RSVP by August 13th so that we may plan accordingly. Also, please keep in mind that street parking is limited. Looking forward to seeing you at the concert!

Sunday, July 30th
11am–2pm

The Big Lunch brings neighbors and communities together to share friendship, food, and fun!

BRING A PICNIC • STROLL IN, ROLL IN • BRING YOUR NEIGHBORS

Open to the community. Rain or shine. No alcoholic beverages.

Mary Hubbell, soprano

Alice Jones, flute

A program of 20th and 21st music for soprano and flute, including a world premiere by Gregory W. Brown.

This program features music by a wide variety of composers; however, they are connected by the unusual origins of their inspiration. Each piece is inspired by a far-off vision: an ancient poet, a foreign poetic form, or a distant culture. In the combination of flute and voice, the composers find opportunities for spare harmonies and clear tones to invoke an exotic or hazy horizon. The program includes music by André Caplet, Albert Roussel, John Corigliano, Inés Thiebaut, and Michael Head. Flutist Alice Jones will present her original work, and the ensemble will premiere a new piece by composer Gregory W. Brown.

Voice and flute duo conText consists of Mary Hubbell and Alice Jones, musicians known for their colorful, thoughtful, and sensitive performances. The ensemble was founded in 2011 at the City University of New York Graduate Center, and their repertoire emphasizes new music while celebrating the entire common practice era. They have performed at Boston College, Cornelia Street Café, The Firehouse Space, Elebash Recital Hall, Symphony Space, Westbeth Art Gallery, and the Composers’ Voice Series at Jan Hus Church in New York City.  

Gregory W. Brown

Composer Gregory W. Brown's music has been heard on American Public Media’s Performance Today, BBC Radio, Minnesota Public Radio, Kansas Public Radio, and Danish National Radio; his Missa Charles Darwin received its European debut in March 2013 at the Dinosaur Hall of Berlin’s Museum für Naturkunde. Brown's works have been performed across the United States and Europe — most notably at Cadogan Hall in London, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and Carnegie Hall in New York City. His latest major work — Fall & Decline — was released on Navona Records in 2021.

Alice Jones

Raised in Austin, TX, Alice Jones welcomes new listeners into the world of music through music creation, education, and collaboration. She was praised by Mario Davidovsky as “the flute player who could really play” and Fanfare Magazine called her 2017 album with Ensemble 365 “pretty music faultless... required listening.” Her composition projects include the #tinyefforts series, as well as recent commissions from Gaudete Brass, Decoda, Amity Trio, Millikin University, Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, and the Phoenix Orchestra (Boston). In 2018 she was named to the inaugural CreateNYC Leadership Accelerator cohort by the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs. Alice teaches flute in Juilliard’s Music Advancement Program and Luzerne Music Center. In 2020, she became the Assistant Dean of Community Engagement and Career Services at The Juilliard School. Alice graduated from Yale University, SUNY Purchase, and the CUNY Graduate Center. She lives in New York City, where, when she's not musicking, she’s likely walking her dogs or making ice cream.

Mary Hubbell

Mary Hubbell, described in the New York Times as “a soprano with a sweetly focused tone,” enjoys performing a wide variety of music, including art song, chamber music, and oratorio. She holds degrees from Boston College; the University of California, Santa Barbara; the Royal Conservatory in The Hague; and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. While living in the Netherlands, she was a frequent soloist with early music ensembles, and often appeared at the contemporary venues of the Young Composer’s Festival in Apeldoorn and the Gaudeamus Festival in Amsterdam. She enjoys living and performing in western Massachusetts, where she lives with her husband, composer Gregory W. Brown and their dog Millie.

19 year old American pianist Maxim Lando has been described as a “dazzling fire-eater” (ARTS San Francisco), a “pianist who dares to do things not considered by others” (ConcertNet, The Classical Music Network)  and as “a total musical being” (The New Criterion).  He was lauded by Anthony Tommasini in the New York Times as displaying “brilliance and infectious exuberance in his New York debut” combined with “impressive delicacy” and a “wild-eyed danger.”

Join us August 18th for a solo performance by Maxim Lando.

A musical evening and special preview of an exhibit in collaboration with the Marine Biological Laboratory.

Join us for a live concert featuring work by composer Greg Brown, performed by Mary Hubbell, Kristine Gether, Yang Liu, and Jiayan Sun.

Plus an exhibit of images featuring the drawings of master illustrator Ernst Haeckel and cutting-edge digital microscopy images from MBL scientists.

The HMS Challenger expedition was a groundbreaking exploration of the world’s ocean and the first to systematically explore its deepest regions. It is recognized globally as the event that created oceanography as a discipline and gave a tremendous push to the advancement of marine biology. The expedition, funded by the Royal Society, left England on 21 December 1872 with both scientists and naval crew on board. It sailed the world for three and a half years, collecting data from remote places and conducting research on hundreds of samples and thousands of marine creatures retrieved from the deep ocean. The Challenger expedition resulted in an extraordinary and ambitious chronicling of its science research in the form of 50 volumes which include among the most extensive and important images of marine organisms ever created. They continue to provide research material and inspire artists and scientists alike. One hundred and fifty years hence, we have new extraordinary kinds of instrumentation and techniques for imaging marine organisms, including an array of specialized microscopes, sensors, and even artificial intelligence-driven image processing that enable remarkable new discoveries in the ocean. The proposed exhibit will highlight the extraordinary marine biological illustrations stemming from the Challenger expedition and provide opportunities for visitors to compare and contrast them to the cutting edge of biological visualization as practiced today at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, which is on the forefront of this method of inquiry.

Program

Mary Hubbell, soprano
Kristine Gether, alto
Yang Liu, piano
Jiayan Sun, piano  

L’invitation au voyage
Henri Duparc (1848-1933

Reflets
Le retour
Lili Boulanger (1893-1918)

Beside the sea
Song to the Dark Virgin
Florence Price (1887-1953)

from Préludes
Ondine (Book 2, no. 8)
Ce qu’a vu le vent d’Ouest (Book 1, no. 7)
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

Wasserfahrt
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)

Auf dem Wasser zu singen
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

Wie Schnee
Laue Sommernacht
Bei dir ist es traut
Gregory W. Brown (b. 1974)
Alma Mahler (1879-1964)

Arabesken
über “An der schönen blauen Donau” von Johan Strauss
Adolf Schulz-Evler (1852-1905)

To the Bleak Shore
Time does not bring relief
Ebb
I Shall Go Back Again
Gregory W. Brown

Dazzling Light (premiere)
Gregory W. Brown