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Meet Mischka — 11/03/22

The Granite State is home to many dogs, cats and other animals with roles that go beyond the traditional house pet. Read on to learn about Eddy the comfort pony, Yuka the Arctic fox, cuddle cows at Granite Oak Farm in Goffstown and more.

Also on the cover Katelyn Sahagian brings you all the details on the Nashua Chamber Orchestra’s return with “Beethoven and Friends,” a concert at Nashua Community College this weekend (page 15). Find local live music this weekend and beyond in our Music This Week section (starts on page 35). Pats Peak Ski Area in Henniker gears up for its 60th season with an Oktoberfest and ski and snowboard sale (page 24).

News & Notes 22/11/03

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General election New Hampshire’s general election is on Tuesday, Nov. 8. Offices on the ballot include Governor, U.S. Senator, Representative ...

Giving back with overstock

New retail store plans to help local nonprofits Adam Daley is the founder and owner of Granite State Discounts, a ...

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Quality of Life 22/11/03

Energy worries President and chief executive officer of Eversource Energy Joseph R. Nolan Jr. has expressed concern about possible energy ...

This Week 22/11/03

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Big Events November 3, 2022 and beyond Thursday, Nov. 3 Join MANIA the ABBA tribute band at the Chubb Theatre ...

Meet Mischka

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Get to know this Community-friendly Comfort Dog, a very social emu, cuddle cows and other famous local animals Many dogs, ...

New and old classics

Nashua Chamber Orchestra opens season with full orchestra concerts By Katelyn Sahagian ksahagian@hippopress.com It’s been a long time coming, but ...

The Art Roundup 22/11/03

The latest from NH’s theater, arts and literary communities • Open studio: In addition to the Route 3 Art Trail ...

Let the good times roll

Concord native presents new photo biography of B.B. King By Mya Blanchard listings@hippopress.com Whether through pictures or narrative, Concord native ...

Kiddie Pool 22/11/03

Family fun for the weekend Art and science • Learn about exoplanets at the event “Exoplanets: They’re Out of This ...

An (eventual) pop of color

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Forcing bulbs for early spring blossoms indoors I love tulips. Fortunately, our dog Rowan keeps the deer away, so I ...

Treasure Hunt 22/11/03

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Dear Donna, Time to pass this carved Scottie dog bracelet to my daughter. Can you give me any information to ...

On The Job – Sally Pendleton

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Physical therapist specializing in dry needling Sally Pendleton is a Physical Therapist certified and specializing in dry needling, a technique ...

The Weekly Dish 22/11/03

News from the local food scene • Seniors Thanksgiving luncheon: The Salvation Army’s Northern New England Division is inviting seniors ...

Winter is brewing

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Oktoberfest, ski and snowboard sale return to Pats Peak Just ahead of its season kickoff, Pats Peak Ski Area in ...

Soup’s on

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Bouillon Bistro now open in Milford Scratch-made artisan soups, chowders and stews are the stars of the menu at Bouillon ...

In the kitchen with Sergio Metes

Sergio Metes is the executive chef of Luna Bistro (254 N. Broadway, Salem, 458-2162, luna-bistro.com), a tapas and wine bar ...

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It’s the week after Halloween, and you may be wondering why you would need a dessert recipe. Think of it ...

Wine pairing, Italian style

What to drink with each course of a hearty Italian meal The crisp days of autumn call for a reunion ...

Album Reviews 22/11/03

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Brothertiger, Brothertiger (Satanic Panic Records) If you were around in the late ’80s, you probably heard your share of corporate ...

Shuna’s Journey, by Hayao Miyazaki

Shuna’s Journey, by Hayao Miyazaki (First Second, 160 pages) At a glance, Shuna’s Journey feels like well-mapped territory for author ...

Till (PG-13)

Till (PG-13) Mamie Till-Mobley, mother of the murdered child Emmett Till, is the focus of Till, a close-up portrait of ...

At the Sofaplex 22/11/03

Wendell & Wild (PG-13) Voices of Lyric Ross, Angela Bassett. As well as the voices of Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan ...

The Music Roundup 22/11/03

Local music news & events Nashville kitten: Country music rising star MaRynn Taylor is joined by local fave Dusty Gray ...

Well rounded

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Zero hits New Hampshire with new (old) album The hallmark of a good jam band is how well it plays ...

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Shuna’s Journey, by Hayao Miyazaki

Shuna’s Journey, by Hayao Miyazaki (First Second, 160 pages)

At a glance, Shuna’s Journey feels like well-mapped territory for author and acclaimed director Hayao Miyazaki. Originally published in 1983, the story about a prince who leaves his home on an ungulate steed for parts unknown bears a striking resemblance to Miyazaki’s 1997 film Princess Mononoke. Assumingthe graphic novelis only a springboard for the acclaimed animator’s later film, it would only seem accessible to mega-fans of his work. Assumptions are often proved wrong and Shuna’s Journey is much stranger than anyone could hope to assume.

The book itself is not laid out like a traditional comic or manga, stereotypically filled with sliced and diced frames meant for frenetic page-turning. In fact, the layout of Shuna’s Journey shares more commonality with a children’s book of myths and legends. Pages primarily consist of large single-columned panels, the maximum being only three per page. They bleed over onto the corresponding pages in uneven hand-painted watercolor, bringing humanity to the larger-than-life renderings.

The book opens peacefully among the mountains that tower over Shuna’s village with the lines, “These things may have happened long ago, they may be still to come.” and it could almost serve as an excuse for an unrealized, undeveloped setting. Instead, the stage is set with background art portraying an environment triumphant over human civilization. Empty ruins look like dry bones against barren plains and the desert lands stretch endlessly into the horizon, marbled in red and blue hues. Even human creations feel alien in this land. As Shuna makes his way west he takes shelter under giant abandoned robots as well as a colossal battleship, grounded and wasting in a sea of sand. All serve as breadcrumbs of a mythic past where humans thrived, making the reader wonder what happened to make Shuna’s world this way.

There is also an anthropological element that helps flesh out Shuna’s world. In his home village, walls painted with cosmological designs hint at a culture with deep-rooted beliefs and customs. The fur hat Shuna wears marks him as someone of high status, and other characters who also wield power wear similar headgear. Some of the bigger antagonists in the story, those participating in the slave trade have their own menacing iconography differentiating themselves from the small village kingdoms. These details help cut down on exposition that could cramp the page. The narrative does not need to slow down with backstory exposition when Thea (a character whose perspective takes over for the final third of the book) is introduced. Her distinctive hair ornaments tell everything about how she treasures her past and fights for her individuality even as the slave trade tries to take it from her.

Storywise, the book follows the archetypal hero’s journey, making the narrative easy to follow. Shuna and his people are caught in a cycle of hunger and scarcity. There’s not enough food for the people and animals, so when there is a chance to break the cycle, the hero sets off on his quest for a crop that will sustain his people. Miyazaki makes sure to impress upon the reader the constant looming state of desolation in which the characters find themselves. While Shuna must overcome physical challenges to survive, he needs more than muscle to accomplish his goal. The trials during the story test his resolve to complete the journey, making him learn what it means to both help and hurt others.

The pacing is even; the climax hits when Shuna finally makes it to the land of the god-folk. This is where the graphic novel’s art and story both reach their peak. The environment, with its vibrant forests filled with animals and large cultivated fields, is completely different from the wastelands Shuna previously journeyed through. The land of the god-folk is more than paradise and it is here where Shuna’s Journey dips into the realm of cosmic horror. The creatures that make the land their home look like they come straight from the Cambrian explosion, while the mechanisms that cultivate grain are beyond human comprehension. When the truth is finally revealed the reader may find themselves so horrified and filled with existential dread that they wonder whether it was worth it for Shuna to have left his home after all.

The story does not end in the land of the god-folk, but comes to a satisfying, if not complete, conclusion. The final third of the book, with Thea at its center, feels slightly disjointed from the first two-thirds of the story, but it would be much more disappointing if Thea’s section were not included. Since the core of Shuna’s Journey focuses on the quest to cultivate grain it makes sense that part of the story should involve farming. After all, the problem of hunger in Shuna’s world will not solve itself with force, but instead with patience, understanding and kindness. A

— Bethany Fuss

Kiddie Pool 22/11/03

Family fun for the weekend

Art and science

• Learn about exoplanets at the event “Exoplanets: They’re Out of This World!” with experts Dr. Andrew Jordan, a University of New Hampshire research scientist; Dave McDonald, an astronomy educator; David Petriel, exoplanet enthusiast, and the Belmont High School Astronomy Club on Friday, Nov. 4, at 6:30 p.m. at the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center (2 Institute Drive in Concord; starhop.com). The event, this month’s Super Stellar Friday program, will talk about what exoplanets are, how they’re discovered and what conditions might be like on the planets, according to the website, where you can purchase tickets, which cost $12 for adults, $9 for children ages 3 to 12, $11 for seniors older than 65 and students, and are free for children under 3.

• Join the Bookery Manchester (844 Elm St. in Manchester; bookerymht.com) for a free family art walk through downtown Manchester on Sunday, Nov. 6, from 10 a.m. to noon. On the walk, there will be more than 40 pieces of public artwork to see and learn about. The walk will start at Bookery at 10 a.m. While the event is free, the Bookery requests that people register in advance on the Eventbrite page, which can be accessed from bookerymht.com/our-events.

Last bit of October-ness

• The corn maze at Elwood Orchards (54 Elwood Road in Londonderry; 434-6017) is open daily from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. (with the last entrance at 5 p.m.) through Sunday, Nov. 6, when it closes for the season. Tickets can be purchased at the farm and cost $10 per person, free for children under the age of 5. According to the website, the farm still has pick-your-own apples, but call ahead to check on conditions.

• And for the teens: This is the final weekend for some of this season’s haunted attractions. Spookyworld Presents: Nightmare New England (454 Charles Bancroft Hwy. in Litchfield; nightmarenewengland.com) and Fright Kingdom (12 Simon St. in Nashua; frightkingdom.com) will close on Saturday, Nov. 5, with the last time for a fright being at 10 p.m. at both locations. Read our story about this season’s spooky settings in the Oct. 20 issue of the Hippo. Find the e-edition at hippopress.com; the story is on page 10.

Outdoor adventures

• Kids 18 months to 5 years old can be part of the Natural Wonders Fridays at the Beaver Brook Association (117 Ridge Hill Road in Hollis; beaverbrook.org) starting on Friday, Nov. 4, and running through Dec. 16. The weekly event will have kids exploring in nature and learning about the world around them. The six-week session costs $72 for an adult with one child, and there is a 25-percent discount for additional siblings.

• Join the New Hampshire Audubon for a birding walk at Massabesic Center on Saturday, Nov. 5, at 8 a.m. The walk will start at the Massabesic Center (26 Audubon Way in Auburn; nhaudubon.org) and will explore some of the trails with local birder Joe Mahoney. All ages and skill levels are welcome at the walk, which will be about 1 to 2 miles, according to the website. Registration in advance is required and costs $10 per person. Binocular rentals are included with the price of tickets.

Showtime!

You don’t have to go under the sea to see Spongebob the Musical at the Palace Theatre (80 Hanover St. in Manchester; palacetheatre.org) on Tuesday, Nov. 8, and Wednesday, Nov. 9, at 7 p.m. The show, performed by the Palace Teen Company, featuring actors ages 12 to 18, follows the lovable sea sponge Spongebob and his friends as they go on an adventure together. Tickets cost $15 for adults, $12 for children.

Let the good times roll

Concord native presents new photo biography of B.B. King

By Mya Blanchard

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Whether through pictures or narrative, Concord native Charles Sawyer has a long history of storytelling. His latest project, B.B. King: From Indianola to Icon, is a coffee table book of photographs of the blues icon all taken by Sawyer. He will be at Gibson’s Bookstore in Concord for an author event on Wednesday, Nov. 9, at 6:30 p.m., to talk about the book.

Sawyer started writing in 1967 for the purpose of providing text to go along with his photographs. Through this experience, he realized how much he enjoyed it, and his writing eventually took on a life of its own. Since then, Sawyer has amassed experience in journalism and has worked on several unproduced screenplays in a variety of genres, including a special on King that was commissioned by WGBH, as well as a screenplay based on a murder trial in Vermont, and another centered on the Yom Kippur War in 1973.

One of his most successful projects was his 1980 book The Arrival of B.B. King, which stayed in print for 25 years. Used copies of that book can still be found on Amazon.

Many of Sawyer’s projects have been centered around King, with whom he became good friends over a period of 40 years.

“I met him in 1968 when he was playing at a famous nightclub outside of Boston [called Lenny’s on the Turnpike],” Sawyer said. “[It was] … a small 200-seat nightclub where he was playing for about nine days running. I had seen him perform a few times before but I had never met him, and I was very eager to photograph him and possibly to meet him. The intimacy of this club … afforded me the opportunity to get in real close under very optimal lighting conditions while he was performing.”

After King’s first set that night at Lenny’s on the Turnpike, the two engaged in conversation and quickly formed a personal relationship. Sawyer returned to the nightclub for several days and gained status as an insider after King invited him back to his motel room to join in on his poker game.

“I opted not to play because I was scared to death I would lose all my money,” Sawyer said.

With the extra down time that came with his retirement in 2015, Sawyer turned to his archive of photos of the blues singer. As he started digitizing them, he realized he had the makings of what would become B.B. King: From Indianola to Icon. This new book consists of more than 200 photos — some never before published — that Sawyer took over the years, accompanied by some of his own reflections and memories of his friendship with King. The first chapter of the book, for example, tells the story of how it began.

During the event at Gibson’s, Sawyer will engage in a question-and-answer session with attendees, share excerpts from his book and possibly show some projections or panels of pictures.

“One of the reviewers made quite a comment to say that a book of this quality, in this league of coffee table books, to be sold for as little as $45 is quite remarkable,” Sawyer said. “The photographic production … is of the very highest quality that I could have anticipated.”

Charles Sawyer presents B.B. King: From Indianola to Icon
When: Wednesday, Nov. 9, at 6:30 p.m.
Where: Gibson’s Bookstore, 45 S. Main St., Concord
Visit: gibsonsbookstore.com

Featured photo: Courtesy photo.

The Art Roundup 22/11/03

The latest from NH’s theater, arts and literary communities

• Open studio: In addition to the Route 3 Art Trail this Saturday (see page 17), keeping the spirit of the 2010s event NH Open Doors alive is the Kearsarge Open Studios on Friday, Nov. 4, and Saturday, Nov. 5. On Friday, from 5 to 7 p.m. head to Main Street in Warner for an Art Walk. The evening will feature wine and hors d’oeuvres at Upton Chandler House Museum (10 W. Main St.), an artist in residence at Cafe One East (1 E. Main St.) and the gallery at MainStreet BookEnds (16 E. Main St.), according to a press release.

On Saturday, the venues will open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. with a lineup of artists and their work. At the Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum (18 Highlawn Road in Warner) see artist Lenny Novak with crafted dream catchers and Vicki Blanchard with pottery. At Cafe One East, see fine artist Meghan Blood. MainStreet BookEnds will host local artists in a variety of media. At Upton Chandler House Museum, artists include painters David, Laurette and Sean Carroll; Michelle Marson with jewelry and baskets; Jerilyn Nieder with pottery; Susan Parmenter with paintings; Mary Beth Quattrochi, who is a silversmith; Carolyn Rordam from Joppa Glassworks, and Gary Young with wooden bowls, according to a press release. See warnerhistorical.org for more information.

• Weekend of theater: At the Hatbox Theatre (Steeplegate Mall, 270 Loudon Road, Concord, hatboxnh.com) and Lend Me a Theatre present Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, opening Friday, Nov. 4, and running through Nov. 20 with showtimes are on Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday at 2 p.m., and tickets cost $22 for adults and $19 for students and seniors. Reporter Katelyn Sahagian talked to the actors playing the titular characters, Sean Damboise and Zakariah Tber, as well as John Jenks Seymour, who plays Claudius, in the Oct. 13 issue of the Hippo; find the e-edition at hippopress.com (the interviews start on page 13).

On page 12 of that issue, find an interview with Hadley Harris, who plays Janet Van de Graaff in The Riverbend Youth Company’s The Drowsy Chaperone(Angie Sykeny also interviewed Hannah Shepherd, who plays The Chaperone).The showwill run at the Amato Center for the Performing Arts (56 Mont Vernon St., Milford) on Friday, Nov. 4, at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 5, at 2:30 and 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, Nov. 6, at 2:30 p.m. See svbgc.org/amato-center.

The Actorsingers bring the musical thriller Sweeney Todd to theKeefe Center for the Arts (117 Elm St., Nashua) Friday, Nov. 4, and Saturday, Nov. 5, at 8 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 6, at 2 p.m.. Tickets cost $20 for adults, $18 for seniors and students (plus fees). Visit actorsingers.org.

The Village Players Theatre (51 Glendon St. in Wolfeboro; village-players.com) presents Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoatstarting this weekend Friday, Nov. 4, through Sunday, Nov. 6, as well as Friday, Nov. 11, through Sunday, Nov. 13. Shows are Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m and tickets cost $25.

• Art at the cinema: The Red River Community Gallery at Red River Theatres (11 S. Main St. in Concord; redrivertheatres.org) will feature an exhibition from local artist Katy O’Gorman Rhodebeck titled “Explorations in Printmaking,” according to a press release. The exhibit will display her “hand-pulled, painterly style reduction block and screen prints,” the release said. See the website for theater hours, which is when the gallery is open.

Craft fairs

The first weekend of November brings more fall craft fairs. If you have an upcoming craft fair, let me know at adiaz@hippopress.com.

• The Merrimack Knights of Columbus Fall Craft Fair will run Friday, Nov. 4, from 5 to 8 p.m., and Saturday, Nov. 5, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Mastricola Upper Elementary School (26 Baboosic Lake Road in Merrimack) with more than 40 crafters, a bakes table and a food counter serving homemade meals, drinks and snacks, according to an organizer’s email.

• The Goffstown Lions Club will hold its craft fair Saturday, Nov. 5, and Sunday, Nov. 6, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. both days at Mountain View Middle School (41 Lauren Lane in Goffstown). The fair will feature crafters and artisans from around New England and admission costs $2 (kids under 12 get in for free), according to a Lions Facebook post.

• Silver Bells Craft Fair at the Tanger Outlets (120 Laconia Road in Tilton) will run Saturday, Nov. 5, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday, Nov. 6, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The offerings include home decor, fused glass, metal artwork, jewelry, quilts, hand-knitted items, wooden spoons, artwear, hand-poured soaps, maple syrups and more, according to a Facebook post.

• The Hampstead Mothers’ Club will hold its craft fair Saturday, Nov. 5, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Hampstead Middle School. The fair will feature more than 80 crafters as well as a raffle and a food court, according to the group’s Facebook post.

• The Annual Village Craft Fair at the First Congregational Church (15 Lawrence Road in Salem) will run from 9 am. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 5, and feature crafts and a snack bar, according to a church Facebook post.

• Future fair: The Craftworkers’ Guild in Bedford (5 Meetinghouse Road in Bedford, the building at the bottom of the library parking lot; thecraftworkersguild.org) will open for Veterans Day weekend, Friday, Nov. 11, through Sunday, Nov. 13. The fair will open this pop-up shop from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.

Route 3 Art Trail
Travel the corridor through Concord, Penacook and Boscawen this Saturday Nov. 5, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. during the Route 3 Art Trail.
The locations will offer art exhibits and demonstrations and other events. Find a map at route3arttrail.com. Pick up a passport at the first stop and then visit five stops to be entered into a raffle. According to a press release, participating locations include:
• Twiggs Gallery (254 King St. in Boscawen): Twiggs’ annual holiday art fair, Sleighbell Studio, will open for the season Saturday with locally made fine art and craft as well as refreshments. Spriggs Shoppe, which is located at Twiggs, will have items including calligraphy art from artist and owner Adele Sanborn, the release said.
• Gadzooks Glass (232 King St. in Boscawen): Karen Mehos will hold an open studio featuring her glass art, which may include a demonstration.
• Susan Douglass (231 King St. in Boscawen): Douglass will set up outside her home to showcase her sculptures and other upcycled creations for the home and garden, the release said.
• Chadwick Hill Rustic Furniture (187 King St. in Boscawen): Craftsman Doug Egounis will display his log furniture (made from woods including black birch, white birch, pine and maple) and work during the tour to demonstrate the furniture-making process.
• Marshall’s Florist & Gifts (151 King St. in Boscawen): The shop offers fresh, dried and silk arrangements.
• Bittersweet Fabric Shop (8 Cottage St. in Boscawen): A local sewing machine shop that sells and maintains machines as well as selling quilting fabric, thread and sewing notions, Bittersweet will offer demonstrations of the machines on Saturday.
• Front Room Art Studio (50 Tanner St. in Penacook): Artist Melanie Deshaies will open her studio to display her drawings, paintings and pottery pieces.
• Jo Shields Studio and Lee Spoons (5 Steeple View in Penacook): Spoon maker Lee Scheffey and mixed-metal jeweler Jo Shields will display their pieces. Scheffey will offer demonstrations.
• The Wild Bean (316 Village St. in Penacook): This shop sells locally made natural body care products, herbs, flowers and plants.
• Monica Cote (48 Woodbine Ave. in Concord): A plein air painter, Cote paints portraits and animals.

New and old classics

Nashua Chamber Orchestra opens season with full orchestra concerts

By Katelyn Sahagian

ksahagian@hippopress.com

It’s been a long time coming, but the Nashua Chamber Orchestra is finally back to its full size, and it should stay that way for the rest of the season.

For the first time since the pandemic, the Nashua Chamber Orchestra is going to be holding its season with a complete orchestra. While the group finished off last season in the spring of 2022 with an orchestral concert, the majority of the season had been with small string groups, says orchestra director David Feltner.

“I’m so happy to be back to a full orchestra and live concerts after the hiatus that most of the arts groups had to take,” Feltner said.

Feltner said he wanted the first concert of the full orchestra season to be something extremely special. The concert, titled “Beethoven and Friends,” will feature a selection of pieces from composers from Beethoven’s time or with styles that complement his own. The symphony for the show is Beethoven’s Eighth.

The music differs from other, more performed works of Beethoven in a few distinct ways, said Feltner. Primarily, the music is in a major key. This is a drastic change from the stormy and ominous-sounding music that Beethoven usually composed.

While Beethoven is played often by instrumentalists and orchestras, Feltner said it’s rare for the eighth to be played.

“His odd-number symphonies get played more often,” Feltner said. “It could be partially because of the key. Maybe people respond more to the intensity of the minor-key symphonies. Sometimes composers write pieces that aren’t great. That’s not the case with this one.”

Feltner added that the score is incredibly difficult and probably one of the hardest of Beethoven’s symphonies to perform. Because of that, he designs the concert programs around one piece of music.

Feltner said he chooses music that will complement the main piece, but will make sure the pieces aren’t too strenuous for the musicians when they have a challenging symphony to play later in the program. With Beethoven’s eighth being his main inspiration, Feltner added a dueling pianos piece that was adapted to include strings by Jean Sibelius and a bassoon solo by Carl Maria von Weber.

The opening piece of the concert might be a first for New Hampshire when it comes to classical music. The orchestra will play the first symphony of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, which Feltner believes has never been played in the Granite State.

Bologne is a little-known composer from the mid to late 1700s, said Feltner. The composer was born in the French colony of Guadeloupe to a white planter and an enslaved Black woman. As a child he was taken to study music in Paris, and at one point he was in consideration to become the next conductor at the Paris Opera, according to Gabriel Banat’s biography The Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Virtuoso of the Sword and the Bow. Bologne was not only a prolific composer and virtuoso, but he lived in Chaussee d’Antin for two and a half years at the same time as Wolfgang Mozart.

“[Bolonge] was a very influential and interesting person, and just now people are discovering his music,” Feltner said. “He was a very gifted violinist. … He has a connection to all the composers of the season. The orchestra he worked with was the one that commissioned Joseph Haydn to write his Paris Symphony.”

While this concert will focus primarily on Beethoven’s piece, Feltner hopes he can provide unique surprises at all the upcoming concerts in the season, as he did with Bologne in this concert. He said he’s excited to see people sitting in the audience and experiencing classical music the way it was written to be.

“Being in the space where the music is actually happening in real time,” said Feltner. “That’s my wish, that people get to enjoy it and make some new discoveries and have a wonderful evening out.”

Beethoven and Friends
When and Where: Saturday, Nov. 5, at 7:30 p.m. at Nashua Community College (505 Amherst St., Nashua), and Sunday, Nov. 6, at 6:30 p.m. at Milford Town Hall (1 Union Square, Milford)
Price: Tickets are $20 for adults; $15 for senior citizens ages 65 and older, military, and college students, and free for children ages 18 and younger.
Visit: nco-music.org

Featured photo: David Feltner, Nashua Chamber Orchestra director. Courtesy photo.

Author: The Hippo Press

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