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Cherry Street Music at The Allen Center 

Presents

Cherry Street Players 

Allison-Yoshie Eldredge, artistic director

3PM Prelude Recital & 4PM Main Show

"Classical with a Twist"

Sunday, April 2nd, 2023

"Women In Time"

3PM-5PM

Two musical experiences in one afternoon! Join us for one or the other, or come for the full afternoon. Refreshments offered between the concerts. 

Featuring:

Markus Placci, violin

Francine Trester, violin

Allison-Yoshie Eldredge, cello

Haram Kim, piano

Jackie Zhang, piano

Maya Matsui McCabe, violin 

Yoshie Akimoto, piano

The Cherry Street Players season continues! Come hear Markus, Francine, Allison, Haram, Jackie, Maya, and Yoshie perform a program of music celebrating women composers from Newton!

Refreshments will be offered at 3:30, followed by the rest of the program at 4!

Read more, including player bios, here: https://newtonculture.org/cherry-street-players/

3PM Prelude Recital (30 minutes)

Classical with a Twist - "Women in Time"

April 2nd, 2023, 3PM

Arrangements of favorite film music, exciting new works by women composers from Newton, and more!

Featuring compositions by Francine Trester, professor at Berklee College of Music, and Jackie Zhang, who previously debuted at Cherry Street Players in January!

Prelude - 3PM

“Song Without Words” - for cello and piano, by Newton composer, Francine Trester 

“Autumn” for violin and piano - by Newton composer, Jackie Zhang 

You Must Love Me - from Evita by Andrew Lloyd Webber, arr. Stephen Prutsman 

Introduction and Polonaise Brillante for cello and piano - Frederic Chopin

Refreshments - 3:30-4:00

Concert - 4PM

Partita No. 2 for solo violin - Francine Trester 

Sonata for solo violin - Hindemith

Carmen Fantasy for violin and piano - Markus Placci 

Duos for violin and cello - Markus and Allison

Brief Q and A with the Artists (~15 min)

Allison-Yoshie Eldredge, Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient and Musical America's Artist of the Year, is Artist-in-Residence of The Allen Center. As Founder of Cherry Street Players, Allison-Yoshie Eldredge is bringing prominent musicians, special guests and the rising generation of Artists from Boston and beyond to share great classical music of the world and other genres including pop, broadway and jazz and  bridge history with present socially-relevant culture throughout the concert season at the historical homestead, The Allen Center. 

Our "classical with a twist" concerts have a less formal setting with conversation between Artists and special guests, and audience members and a brief Q & A with the Artists in the Great Hall of The Allen Center. Audiences will also experience the visionary educational history and beauty of the 1840 Nathaniel Allen Homestead as the artistic home of Cherry Street Players.

In the historic intimate setting of The Allen Center, Cherry Street Players invites friends and families to gather with new people in a musical spirit of togetherness, passion, and hope and experience evenings of exciting and fun music by great Artists from Boston and beyond! 

Free limited parking available onsite as well as at the nearby lot of Family Access of Newton on 492 Waltham Street.