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ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) last week announced its annual award for Chamber Music Festivals through CMA (Chamber Music America).
For the second successive season (winners may not apply for the year following receiving an award) Mohawk Trail Concerts was cited for creative and adventurous programming for its 2002 Summer Festival, the year in which each concert celebrated some aspect of America through music. Founder Arnold Black's winning 2000 season was the first time MTC was honored with this national recognition. After the overwhelming void felt by his death in June 2000 and in these bleak economic times it was especially heartening to receive the telephone call telling me of this new award, said Ruth Black, Artistic Director of MTC.
Charlemont's beautiful Federated Church will again host MTC's 34th season the four weekends of July 2003 when our hallmark imaginative programs of `Music Old and New with Artists from Near and Far' will be presented. A Musical Offering gift to the hilltown community, a Jazz Concert, also at the Federated Church, on Father's Day June 15th 2003 will aid the Hawlemont School's Capital Campaign: and on May 12th there will be a Gala Spring Fundraiser for Mohawk Trail Concerts at the Kosciusko Foundation, 15 E.65th Street in New York City with Arnold Steinhardt, violin, Anne Koscielny, piano, and Maria Ferrante, soprano, generously donating their time and talents
to ensure funding for the forthcoming summer festival.
Mark your calendars and hold the dates to be at these Mohawk Trail Concerts events and help keep the art of great music joyously alive in our world.
16th December 2002
Contact: Ruth Black, (413) 548-9004, MTC Office (413) 625-9511
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