Beethoven, Zydeco and Dancing Scheduled for Music Mountain

Music Mountain opens its 82nd season this June intent, as always, on surveying the great string quartet literature, and to concentrate this summer on Beethoven, on Brahms, on Schubert.

But Music Mountain president Nick Gordon aims to bring all kinds of music lovers to this summer festival, so Sunday afternoons may be Shostakovich and Mozart and Borodin territory, but Saturday nights, at least some of them, are for big bands, jazz and country music. July 9th is given over to Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks (featured on HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire”) playing jazz and swing.

The Whiskey Boys are scheduled and so is The Bushwack Band, with dancing, naturally.

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Daedalus String Quartet will perform three quartets written for them within the last three years on July 16.

The next day, slipping out of contemporary mode, the Daedalus will perform the most popular piece of chamber music ever written, Gordon says, Schubert’s “Trout Quintet.”

Some newcomers will be performing this year including Van Cliburn gold medalist Haochen Zhang, and another pianist, Naumberg Award winner Soyeon Lee will play Aug. 28.

Many favorites including the St. Petersburg String Quartet, the Cassatt String Quartet and the Amernet String Quartet are scheduled for this summer festival as well as a group re-commended to Gordon by the famed violinist Isaac Stern back in the late 1980s, The Shanghai String Quartet.They have performed at Music Mountain every year since 1989. And this year they will be performing Shubert’s “Death and the Maiden,” and Franck’s Piano Quintet in F Minor.

As for lovers of silent flicks, Donald Sosin will be accompanying “Grandma’s Boy” (1922) and Buster Keaton’s “The High Sign” (1921) on Music Mountain’s Steinway Aug. 19.

Gordon says the whole festival program will be mailed this week and next, and information is always available at www.musicmountain.org. For tickets, call the box office at 860-824-7126. And Compass will keep music fans posted throughout the summer. Of course.