HBC Member and Music Composer, Gregory Brown, is producing a nature-themed concert, Rural Hours, and has been kind enough to donate all proceeds to the club. We thank him for this invite and his generosity!

Apple Hill String Quartet w/ James Reese will perform the premiere of a multi-movement work for tenor and string quartet featuring texts by Susan Fenimore Cooper. Her amazing and under-appreciated nature diary (also titled Rural Hours) gives a delightful first-hand account of living in rural New York state in the mid 19th century. Her witty and insightful writings are here excerpted into a song-cycle for tenor.

Entry is by free-will donation and proceeds will benefit the Hampshire Bird Club.

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