In a first for the SMF Chamber Series, we travel to the magnificent surroundings of Kehoe Iron Works for a program of fantasy and drama. In a semi-staged, partly programmatic concert, Impressionist France meets the mysterious world of Edgar Allan Poe, with a reading of Poe’s macabre tale “The Masque of the Red Death,” and in response we hear André Caplet’s brilliant setting of the same story to music. To add to the Impressionistic element there is Claude Debussy’s exquisite Trio for flute, viola and harp, and the program concludes with Maurice Ravel’s Pavane and his beguiling Piano Trio, perhaps one the finest trios ever written. 


Ticket buyers are invited to join us an hour before the concert for a complimentary beverage to toast the start of SMF core chamber music programs under the leadership of Artistic Advisor Philip Dukes!