The third concert of the Sebago-Long Lake Music Festival season will be held at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, July 30, at Deertrees Theatre in Harrison. Featured composers are Bach, Bartok and Mozart.

The program includes

BACH: Trio Sonata in C Minor from The Musical Offering, BWV 1079
BARTÓK: Contrasts for Violin, Clarinet and Piano
MOZART: Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K. 581.

Artists performing are Susan Rotholz, flute; Pavel Vinnitsky, clarinet; Varty Manouelian, violin; Movses Pogossian, violin; Ramón Carrero-Martínez, viola; Bonnie Thron, cello; and Music Director Mihae Lee, piano.

Flutist Susan Rotholz, violinist Movses Pogossian and pianist Mihae Lee will play Bach’s Trio Sonata in C Minor. Rotholz and Pogossian, in the melodious, pathos-tinged opening Largo, begin an elegant musical dialogue that continues throughout the Sonata. Bach follows an energetic second-movement Allegro with an Andante that, while structurally simple, is wonderfully atmospheric thanks to its arresting rhythms and striking harmonies. The Sonata ends with a delightful gigue-like Allegro, full of graceful phrases. All part of a presentation to Frederick the Great, himself a flutist.

In Bartok’s Contrasts, folk music meets jazz. The piece, played by Manouelian, Vinnitsky and Lee, assimiliates Eastern European folk melodies, modes, and rhythms with the composer’s distinctive musical personality. Aptly named, Contrasts (from 1938), the instruments themselves, the violin, clarinet and piano, and their distinct timbres make for a striking contrast.

Mozart’s beloved Clarinet Quintet is so bountiful in its beauty that it’s unworthy of words. Each instrument, clarinet, violin, viola, and cello, gets its chance to perform in turn.

All those 21 and under are admitted free to all SLLMF concerts at Deertrees Theatre.

Throughout the festival season, open rehearsals continue from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. on Mondays at Deertrees Theatre. They are free and open to the public.

There are a series of Community Concerts later this week which are free or by donation only: McLaughlin Garden in South Paris at 3 p.m. on Friday, July 26; the Rufus Porter Museum in Bridgton at 3 p.m. on Saturday, July 27; and the Waterford Congregational Church at 6 p.m. on Saturday, July 27.

Sebago-Long Lake Music Festival performs Tuesdays at 7:30 pm at Deertrees Theatre in Harrison for the next three weeks. For more information about the Festival and to order tickets, go to sebagomusicfestival.org/concert-tickets-2024/. Tickets can also be purchased the evening of the concert at the box office.