BOLTON LANDING, N.Y. – The Silver Bay Ensemble brings the elegance of chamber music to the Marcella Sembrich Opera Museum when the ensemble performs at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 2, at the museum at 4800 Lake Shore Drive. Admission to the concert is $10.
Selections for the July 2 concert include the Amy Beach Piano Trio, Dvorak Bagatelles for Piano Quartet, and solo violin selections by Fritz Kreisler.
The Silver Bay Association is a YMCA Conference Center serving families, guests, conferences, and its surrounding community since 1902. Since 1939, the association has hired performing musicians as part of its summer staff. The musicians present weekly recitals and perform for the evening vespers and Sunday morning worship services.
Members of the Silver Bay Ensemble are: violinist Brice Farrar; Darilyn Manring, Violoncello; Marty Meade and Ned Farrar, Viola; and pianist Joe Pepper.
Brice Farrar was in the Silver Bay Ensemble in the 1960's and 1970's and made his return to Silver Bay last summer. A graduate of Oberlin College in Ohio, he performs and teaches in Kentucky. Manring has a Doctorate in Music Performance from Boston University and teaches, along with Marty Meade, in the Wilton Public Schools in Wilton, Conn. She is principal cellist for the Greater Bridgeport Symphony and has recorded for Phonodisc in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This is her fifth year in the Silver Bay Ensemble.
This year marks Meade’s 22nd season with the Silver Bay Ensemble. A graduate of the Eastman School of Music, he is also the organizer of the music program at Silver Bay and has been concertmaster of the Battle Creek Symphony Orchestra in Michigan and the Bismarck-Mandan Symphony Orchestra in North Dakota.
Ned Farrar received a Master’s Degree in Music Education from the University of Kentucky. He teaches strings at the Booker T. Washington Academy in Lexington, and also performs as a violinist and tenor. This is Pepper’s first season at Silver Bay. He lives in Burlington, Vt. where he works on Vermont Public Radio. He’s also a church musician and teaches privately.
The Marcella Sembrich Memorial Association, Inc., a not-for-profit organization founded in 1940, dedicates its existence and purpose to honor the life and career of internationally renowned soprano, Marcella Sembrich. The MSMA maintains Sembrich’s former teaching studio as a museum displaying Sembrich’s personal effects that reflect on her daily life of teaching and her career. The MSMA also carries on the fine tradition of music through a summer concert series presenting renowned international musicians in concert at the studio.
Media Sponsor for the museum’s 2008 season is The Lake George Mirror. “The 2008 Year of Sembrich Summer Series” is made possible, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts Decentralization Program and Warren County, administered locally by the Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Council, the New York Council for the Humanities, the Warren County Occupancy Tax and the Town of Bolton.
The museum, at 4800 Lake Shore Drive, is open daily through Sept. 15. Hours are 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and from 2 to 5:30 p.m. Admission is by donation.
For more information about the Marcella Sembrich Memorial Association, the Opera Museum or for a calendar of the MSMA's 2007 summer program please go to www.operamuseum.org or contact the MSMA at (518) 644-2431 (office) or (518) 644-9839 (museum).
