Scrag Mountain Music, a nonprofit presenter of innovative chamber music, offers a summer program, “Pig Dreams,” on Wednesday, Aug. 6, at 7 p.m. at the Green Mountain Girls Farm, 923 Loop Road, Northfield, and Thursday, Aug. 7, at 8 p.m. at the Phantom Theater, 970 Dump Road, Warren.
The concert Aug. 6 will be preceded by a farm dinner from 5 to 6:30 p.m.; tickets are $20 for adults and $5 for children. RSVP for dinner: scragmountainmusic.org.
The program will feature “Pig Dreams: Scenes From the Life of Sylvia” by Susan Botti, written for soprano, flute and harp with poetry by Denise Levertov. The work features six charming, whimsical songs from the perspective of Sylvia, a Hampshire pig who lived with the artist Liebe Collidge in the Northeast Kingdom in the 1970s.
Also on the program is artistic director Evan Premo’s “Seasonal Song Cycle” for double bass and soprano, with poetry by e.e. cummings, Elinor Wylie, Rose Fyleman and Basho.
Soprano and artistic director Mary Bonhag and Montpelier flutist Karen Kevra will perform John Corrigliano’s unusual arrangements of three familiar Irish folk songs, and Burlington harpist Rebecca Kauffman will join Kevra to perform the evocative “Sonata for Flute and Harp” by Lowell Liebermann.
Scrag Mountain Music’s motto is “Come as you are and pay what you can.” Admission is by free-will donation taken by passing a basket at intermission.
Dinner tickets and more information: bit.ly/1k48qnf; scragmountainmusic.org.
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