ASHBURNHAM — Historical Piano Concerts will close its 40th spring season with a special afternoon of music celebrating women composers at 3 p.m. Sunday, May 31, at New Dawn Arts Center / Ashburnham Community Church, 84 Main St.
The concert will feature German art songs (known as Lieder) and piano solo works by three influential 19th-century composers: Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Clara Schumann and Josephine Lang.
Performing the program will be the Les Boyer Sisters — mezzo-soprano Sophie Boyer and pianist Marie-Elise Boyer — using a rare historic piano built by Tröndlin of Leipzig, Germany, around 1830.
Admission is $20 for adults; students and children are admitted free. No advance reservations or ticket sales are required. English translations of the German songs will be provided in the concert program.
For more information, visit the Frederick Historical Piano Collection’s website at frederickcollection.org or e-mail [email protected].
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