The American Music Festival
 CONCERT SERIES in BEAUFORT & MOREHEAD CITY, NC

Twentieth Anniversary Season, 2009–2010

A Message from our Artistic Director

Dear Music Lover,

Welcome to 2009–2010, AMF’s 20th season!  We have planned a passionate musical journey through time observing the anniversaries of several great composers.  From the early Classical, the sparkling Giovanni Battista Pergolesi.  From the romantics, the personal expressions of Robert Schumann and Frédéric Chopin.  From the 20th Century, the poetic lyricism of American composer Samuel Barber.  It’s truly an outstanding season — It’s a 10!

Highlights of the season include

• Pergolesi’s Flute Concerto in G for Flute, Piano and Continuo and his Sinfonia (a lively and catchy inspiration for Stravinsky's Pulcinella), followed by the Stravinsky Suite Italienne
• A return engagement of Nicolas Duchamp, the charming and gifted prinicipal flutist of the Paris Opera Comique
• The world premiere of a song cycle inspired by the poetry of Samuel Menashe by AMF’s very own Barbara McKenzie
• A rare performance of a QUINTET TRANSCRIPTION of Chopin’s E-minor Piano Concerto
• Moving and very beautiful chamber works of Samuel Barber including the Adagio for Strings from the String Quartet, Op. 11, and Dover Beach with Baritone John Kramar
• To close the season, Barbara McKenzie’s piano recital of Chopin pieces, completed in Mallorca.

Over the years AMF has reached thousands of youngsters in the Carteret County Schools, enriching their cultural lives with classical music.  This season, AMF will again present Papa Haydn: The Boy Who Sang for His Supper for third graders in the Carteret Schools, thanks to your generous support and a grassroots grant from the Carteret County Arts Council.

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Barbara McKenzie
Artistic Director

AMF is grateful for support from the North Carolina Arts Council, an agency funded by the State of North Carolina and the National Endowment of the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.