Amherst Recreation Announces March Programs

Time to get your summer Baboosic Lake pass and save $10.  Programs for kids including Theatre: Re-Imagined and much, much more!

Milford Area Players Present: Love, Sex and the IRS

Staged by the Milford Area Players at Milford's Amato Center for two weekends, March 10-19, with shows Fridays and Saturdays

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REMINDER: TOWN OF AMHERST Public Notice

The Amherst Supervisors of the Checklist will be in session at the Town Clerk’s Office at the Amherst Town Hall on March 4.

Amherst Open Air Market – A Must Visit on Sundays,

Offering a vast array of locally grown and  produced items from vendors that are members of your community.

Symphony NH Performs Brahms and Tchaikovsky

Music Director Jonathan McPhee notes Sergey Antonov for “his ability to reach into the audience and move every individual." March 4

Symphony NH Performs Brahms and Tchaikovsky with Cellist Sergey Antonov

NASHUA – Warm up after a snowy month with Symphony NH’s March 4th performance of Brahms and Tchaikovsky at Keefe Center for the Arts featuring internationally celebrated cellist Sergey Antonov.  Antonov began his career by winning the International Tchaikovsky Competition – the competition that also began American pianist Van Cliburn’s career.  Since then Antonov has performed internationally, hailed by the Budapest Sun as “combining formidable technique and an incredibly warm, penetrating and vibrant tone to a romantic musical sensibility to create music-making of a highest caliber”.

Antonov has performed with Symphony NH in past seasons.  Symphony NH Music Director Jonathan McPhee praises Antonov for “his ability to reach into the audience and move every individual.  He has a powerful connection with the listeners.”  Antonov will be performing Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme, a piece for solo cello and orchestra that is known for testing the technical limits of the soloist while staying true to Tchaikovsky’s rich and romantic style.

Symphony NH’s March program opens with the New Hampshire Premiere of Dreamtime Ancestors by Christopher Theofanidis, an American composer whose music has been performed by orchestras around the world.  Theofanidis was a 2017 Grammy Nominee for Best Contemporary Classical Composition, and The Houston Chronicle wrote about another Theofanidis premiere saying, “not too often does the premiere of a work for a symphony orchestra elicit a standing ovation that is genuinely heartfelt, not obligatory…. Theofanidis received that accolade Saturday.”  Symphony NH will perform Dreamtime Ancestors thanks to support from New Music for America, whose mission is to bring world premieres of newly created pieces to all 50 states.

Brahms’ masterful Symphony No. 3 completes this concert.  For listeners new to Brahms, you will enjoy the rhythmic layers that, like a sung duet, contain two independent musical lines that weave together to paint a colorful story.  You will feel Brahms’ intense depth in the moments where he brings the orchestra together in a powerful way.  And for those listeners who know Brahms well, you will always hear something new.  Whether it is the end of a phrase that McPhee takes in an unexpected and refreshing style or an inner musical line that soars out of the background in a new way.

Symphony NH will perform Brahms and Tchaikovsky on March 4th at 8 pm at Keefe Center for the Arts (117 Elm Street in Nashua).  Tickets are $18 - $49 dollars with discounts for seniors.  Student tickets are $10 and buy one get one free with additional specials as a part of Symphony NH Student Night.  Tickets for youth under 15 are always free.  For concert and ticket information call (603) 595-9156 or visit www.symphonynh.org.