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John and Rose Mary Harbison
A wooded glade,
a quiet barn...
exquisite music,
glorious performances.
Token Creek • a world apart . . .
2013 Festival Season
August 20 - September 1, 2013
Dear Friends,
If you participated in some of our events last year you might have found yourself in a large hayfield assessing its ecological possibilities and hazards, or crossing a beautiful new rustic bridge over Token Creek suddenly to be surprised by Titania declaiming her brilliant and blistering lines about our responsibility for our earth, and after that hearing a folk combo of accordion, guitar, and bass (!) playing Hoagy Carmichael. Or perhaps later that week you heart Bach's "latest," a new aria discovered only a decade ago. And could that new, completely stylish and winning jazz singer really have been only twenty-one years old, with a recent degree in mathematics?
Since we like multi-year themes, we envision an evening of Shakespeare: dramatic readings with music, and works of music inspired by his words. Guest actors will be joined by our esteemed colleagues from Open End Ensemble, who bring their special improvisational skills. Drama is this evening's discovery — the Bard will rule the night!
And there will be more discoveries: completions of marvelous unfinished movements of Mozart by the Mozart maestros, Robert Levin and John Harbison, and a new piece written by John for Rose Mary. The rest of our season we leave to our imaginations, with the thought that the Token Creek Festival is likely to continue in an experimental, free-thinking way.
We hope that you will join us again for all the musical worlds we explore — pieces, concepts, players — and our ongoing commitment to surprise. And we hope that you might help us, again or for the first time.
With warmest wishes for the new year,
John and Rose Mary Harbison
Artistic Directors
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Token Creek Chamber Music Festival media coverage
Token
Creek Chamber Music Festival Bridges Seasons and Centuries — Madison
Magazine, September 2, 2012
Final
program of Token Creek Chamber Music Festival provokes thought — 77
Square, September 2, 2012
Music
and nature collide at Token Creek Chamber Music Festival — Sun
Prairie Star, August 22, 2012
Around
the Bubbler: Token Creek Chamber Music Festival —77
Square, August 22, 2012
Classical
music: This year’s Token Creek Chamber Music Festival — The
Well-Tempered Ear,
August 21, 2012
Music
festival starts Aug. 25 — DeForest
Times-Tribune,
August 15, 2012
Robert
Levin discusses the Mozart reconstructions — WPR All
Things Considered, February 16, 2012
