ESCMF Concert 8: DESERT ISLAND

ESCMF 2025: SEA LEVEL

ESCMF is back for an thrilling third season of chamber music along the Mobile Bay! If you were stuck on a desert island and only had one piece to listen to forever, what would it be? ESCMF Artistic Directors Sahada and Trace both agreed that Verklärte Nacht by Arnold Schoenberg was an essential desert island masterpiece. Celebrate the joy of live chamber music over three weeks with ESCMF. ESCMF concerts are free and open to the public with a suggested donation.

Concert eight: DESERT ISLAND

· Plan & Elevation, Caroline Shaw (15 min)

· Estrellita, Manuel Ponce (4 min)

· Quintet for Harp and Strings, Arnold Bax (15 min)

INTERMISSION

·Verklärte Nacht, op. 4, Arnold Schoenberg (35 min)

Week Three Musicians:
Delcho Tenev, Katherine Baloff-Tenev, Sahada Buckley, violin
Yordan Tenev, violin and viola
Blakeley Menghini and Daniela Pardo, viola
Trace Johnson, Andrea Beltran-Landers and James Waldo, cello
Johanna Weinholts, harp

The Eastern Shore Chamber Music Festival (ESCMF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to enriching the Eastern Shore community by presenting exciting live chamber music events that are free of charge. ESCMF is committed to bringing educational, accessible, and entertaining cultural experiences to the Eastern Shore of the Mobile Bay through thoughtfully curated, high-level performances that pair classical and contemporary chamber music.

ESCMF Season 3: SEA LEVEL

· WALK THE PLANK || Friday May 30, 7:30
Fairhope Unitarian Fellowship
· THE DOLDRUMS || Saturday May 31, 7:30
Fairhope Unitarian Fellowship
· OCTOPUS'S GARDEN || Sunday June 1st, 2:30
St. Francis at the Point

· FAIRHOPE ART WALK || Friday June 6, 6 -8 ||
Eastern Shore Art Center
· HURRICANE DAN || Saturday June 7, 7:30
Giddens Auditorium at Coastal Alabama Community College
· FISH OUT OF WATER || Sunday June 8, 2:30
St. Francis at the Point

· AIN'T MY FIRST SHRIMP BOIL || Friday June 13, 7:30
St. James Episcopal Church
· DESERT ISLAND || Saturday June 14, 7:30
Fairhope Unitarian Fellowship
· MOTHER OF PEARL || Sunday June 15, 2:30
St. Francis at the Point

Thursday Preview Concerts:
May 29 7:30, Fairhope United Methodist Church
June 5 5:00, St. Paul's Episcopal Church Magnolia Springs
June 12 6:00, Ashland Place, Mobile

Learn more about all of our concerts and festival artists at www.escmf.org!