AVALON – Learn about composers’ musical impressions of faraway places at the August installment of the summer series of free music lectures by Paul M. Somers, sponsored by the Bay-Atlantic Symphony, on Thursday, August 18, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the Margate Public Library, Bloom Pavilion 8100 Atlantic Ave., Margate, NJ and on Thursday, August 25, from 7 to 8:30 p.m., at the Avalon Public Library, 235 32nd St., Avalon.
Entitled “Composers on Vacation” the lectures will explore what happens when a composer leaves home for a very different place and how they reflect this musically. The lectures will serve as a pre-concert talk for the Bay-Atlantic Symphony concert on Saturday, August 27, at the Avalon Free Public Library.
The final lectures in the summer series, on Thursday, September 1, at 6:30 p.m., in Margate and Thursday, September 8, at 7 p.m. in Avalon, will explore how composers musically depict the seasons of the year.
This series is in addition to the monthly music lectures series, sponsored by the Symphony and given by Somers, which runs from September through May at the Monroe Township Library in Williamstown, Ocean City Public Library, Millville Public Library, and the Margate Public Library.
Somers, Adult Education Director for the Bay-Atlantic Symphony, is a also a composer, performer, founder of Maurice River Music, was for 25 years the harpsichordist for the Virtuoso Strings of New York, and was a reviewer for the Star-Ledger.
The lectures are co-sponsored by the libraries in which they given.
For further information, call the Bay-Atlantic Symphony at (856) 451-1169, or Somers at Maurice River Music at (856) 506-0580. For the Margate series, you can also call the Margate Public Library at (609) 822-4700. For the Avalon series, you can also call the Avalon Free Public Library at (609) 967-7155.
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