Music of the Gilded Age 1885–1910

Celebrating the 125th Anniversary of the Cornish Colony 

Max Culpepper, conductor  

with special guest

Virginia Eskin, piano

and introductions by Stephen Langley

Sunday, October 10 • 4 pm • Claremont Opera House

Click this sentence to listen to Cornish historian Fern Meyers discuss the pieces in this performance.

Advanced Reserved Tickets*

Tier A: $32.50, Seniors $26, Students $20,

Tier B: $28.50, Seniors $22, Students $16

Tier C: $22.50, Seniors $16, Students $10

Children 12 & Under (accompanied by an adult) FREE. All Claremont students FREE

“The pleasure of Eskin’s playing lies…in its elan and its inexorable momentum…superb pianism…Eskin always goes for broke.”  The Boston Globe

The turn of the 20th century, with its rapid social, economic and technological changes, also witnessed a transformation in the arts. The Cornish Colony, first founded in 1885 in Cornish, New Hampshire (Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site), and then expanded to include Plainfield and Windsor, Vermont (The Cornish Colony Museum), was a community where famed composers, musicians, artists, and writers gathered to create, to inspire, and to help drive this cultural evolution. The Orchestra celebrates the 125th anniversary of the Cornish Colony—and the Gilded Age of Music that saw the rise of ragtime and musical theater, both of which would be incorporated into modern classical music. Join CRVO for a golden afternoon of diverse turn-of-the-century music, including movements from works by Cornish Colony composers:  Edgar Stillman Kelley’s Aladdin: A Chinese Suite, Arthur Whiting’s “Prince of Love” from The Golden Cage, and Horatio Parker’s A Northern Ballad, Op. 46. CRVO also plays the opening fanfare from Richard Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra, and nationally celebrated pianist Virginia Eskin joins the Orchestra to perform the first movement of Amy Beach’s Piano Concerto, Op. 45. The second half of the program features “Jubilee” from George Whitefield Chadwick’s Symphonic Sketches in A Major and all four movements of Dvořák’s  well-loved Symphony No. 9—New World Symphony.

* Add $2 for tickets at the door.