Arcady Music Festival plans concert of Beethoven music

Audiences at Arcady’s third program of the 1990 season will hear music the way Beethoven did. That is, the music will emanate from instruments (violin, cellow and fortepiano) built like those used in Beethoven’s time. The third program of the 10th Anniversary Season of Arcady Music Festival, “Beethoven on Original Instruments” will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, July 29, at St. Andrew’s Church in Millinocket; at 8 p.m. Monday, July 30, at Mt. Desert Island High School; on Tuesday, July 31, at Bangor Theological Seminary; and Wednesday, August 1, in the Dover-Foxcroft Congregational Church, both evenings also at 8.

This program of Beethoven’s music will include two piano trios:

E-flat Major, Op. 44, and G-Major, Op. 1, No. 2, in addition to a Piano and Violin Sonata (A Major, Op. 12, No. 2) and variations on a theme from Mozart’s “Magic Flute,” written for cello and piano.

Joining the musicians in celebration of Arcady’s 10th Anniversary are four youthful winners of Arcady’s Youth Competition, who will get their first chance to perform on the fortepiano. They are: Sebastian Barthelmess, grade 7, Athens, who will play in Millinocket; Peter Holman, grade 5, Bangor, who will perform on Mt. Desert Island; Spencer Garrett, grade 4, Bangor, who will perform in Bangor and Caitlin Malloy, grade 3, Athens, who will perform in Dover-Foxcroft.

Visual artists exhibiting at the concerts are: Bob Giordano, sculpture, and Ian Marshall, paintings, on Mt. Desert Island; Patricia Vadas, “Moods of Norway” paintings, in Bangor; and Paul Larrabbee and John Bosin, acrylics, in Dover-Foxcroft.

Tickets may be purchased in advance at Mr. Paperback and Sherman’s Bookstore in Bar Harbor, Oz Bookstore in Southwest Harbor, Foxcroft Bed and Breakfast and Shanty Card Shop in Dover-Foxcroft, Libby’s Card Shop in Bangor, and Ampersand in Orono.

The guest musicians who will join Arcady Music Festival’s pianist, Masanobu Ikemiya, for this performance are experts with baroque instruments. Violinist Stanley Ritchie, born in Australia, has been a major force in the historic performance movements in the U.S. He began his American career as concertmaster of the New York City and Metropolitan opera companies. He appears regularly as soloist or ensemble player with a number of leading chamber music groups in the U.S. and Canada. He is professor of violin at Indiana University and director fo the Bloomington, IN, Baroque Orchestra.

Cellist Kenneth Slowik directs the Smithsonian Institution’s chamber music program, is cellist with the Smithson String Quartet and the Castle Trio, and he conducts the Smithsonian Chamber Orchestra. He has performed widely in North America and Europe and has made more than 30 recordings. He serves on the faculties of the Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute and the University of Maryland.