Caroga Arts Ensemble: Forgotten Sounds

Name: Caroga Arts Ensemble: Forgotten Sounds
Start: 2025-08-13T17:00:00-04:00
Location: Fenimore Farm and Country Village

Schedule

Wed, 13 Aug, 2025 at 05:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Fenimore Farm and Country Village | Cooperstown, NY

The Caroga Arts Ensemble returns to Cooperstown, featuring KASA Quartet, Linda Chesis, Graeme Steele Johnson, and Bixby Kennedy. In April 2020, clarinetist Graeme Steele Johnson discovered the unpublished manuscript to a forgotten, 127-year-old Octet in the archives of the Library of Congress by the Berlin-born, Boston-based composer Charles Martin Loeffler (1861-1935), one of the most performed American composers of his time. The program centers around Loeffler’s Octet, which Johnson spent a year reconstructing from the 75-page manuscript, creating the first critical edition of the music and revealing a previously unheard kaleidoscopic masterpiece. Clarinetists Bixby Kennedy and Graeme Steele Johnson join forces for an early work by Poulenc, Sonata for Two Clarinets, written at the age of 19. Revel in the sounds of Ravel’s Introduction and Allegro, commissioned in 1905 to feature the latest harp model made by Parisian publisher Maison Erard, as well as Johnson’s arrangement of Debussy’s iconic Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun.