Three Concerts of Solo and Chamber Music by Mozart, Bach, Scarlatti, Haydn, Schuert, and Beethoven

All performances are held in the neo-Classical Community Room of Sanford's historic Louis B. Goodall Library, built in 1937 in the style of the meeting places of Colonial Williamsburg -- an ideal setting for the performance of 18th-century music.

Each of this year's Festival converts will be performed twice, on Friday and Saturday evenings, beginning at 7:30 p.m.  Tickets may be purchased in advance; remaining tickets will go on sale at the Box Office one hour before each concert.

The Festival has no assigned seats, but with its intimate 50-seat venue, every one is excellent! 

The Louis B. Goodall Library is air-conditioned.

Louis B. Goodall Library, with neo-Classical Community Room on right

About the Festival’s Historic Instruments

The Festival concerts will be performed on a 1770s Johann Andreas Stein-style grand piano (Augsburg) from the Friedman-Bozarth Collection of Historic Pianos and a 1795 Anton Walter-style grand piano (Vienna) built by Rodney Regier of Freeport, Maine.

With their crisp, clear sound, both pianos are capable of capturing and conveying the wit and humor that pervades the late 18th-century music of Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven, as well as communicating the passions of their music’s more intimate moments.  With parallel- or straight-stringing, a lighter touch, and a bright upper range, these pianos possess a clarity and variety of sound lacking on modern pianos, which makes them ideal for blending with other instruments for chamber music or sparkling in their own right as solo instruments. 

The other historic instruments on the Festival will include a gut-strung violin by Zanetto Peregrino (Brescia, 1615) and cello by Gustav Greiner (Breitenfeld, 1874, converted to Baroque specifications), and a replica of a nine-key bassoon by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Grenser (Dresden, ca. 1792).

1795 Viennese Fortepiano (replica built by Rodney Regier, Freeport, ME)