The Sembrich has announced its 2022 Summer Festival Reimagining the Classics. The festival will explore reinvention - from transcriptions and arrangements of beloved classics, to rhapsodies and variations on themes of popular composers. Some events will return to the intimacy of the historic Sembrich Studio and others will be held under a lakeside performance tent. Events will begin in June and run through early September. Tickets are now on sale for all events in the 2022 summer festival.

This #GivingTuesday, we are raising funds for the restoration of 11 historic light fixtures that are original to Marcella Sembrich’s lakeside teaching studio. The fixtures are just about a century old and need to be rewired and restored to working condition. The fixtures include the two tall fixtures picture above on the mantle, the chandeliers, and the wall fixtures.

With tremendous sorrow, we mourn the passing of Charles “Charlie” O. Richards, Board Member Emeritus and long-time Sembrich Historian.

The Sembrich will celebrate world music traditions in A Journey Around the Globe, an afternoon performance featuring fiddler Mari Black and accordionist Cory Pesaturo on Wednesday, August 18 at 2:00 PM. The afternoon promises an unforgettable musical extravaganza, as the duo presents a diverse musical journey, featuring rhythmic jazz tunes, blazing klezmer horas, passionate tangos, playful American rags, driving Celtic reels, and more. Known throughout the country and around the world for their individual musical versatility and vivaciousness, Mari Black and Cory Pesaturo hold over 10 World and National championship titles between them.

The Sembrich’s Free Film Festival continues with an outdoor screening the 2019 documentary film Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles on Monday, August 16 at 7:30 PM. The film is the first documentary to chronicle the complete story of the international Broadway blockbuster musical Fiddler on the Roof by exploring the unexpected richness of its themes as well as its extensive reach across time and cultures. Fiddler on the Roof is the tale of Jewish immigrants coming to America, of immigrants and refugees trying to escape persecution in their homeland, of the fraying of tradition, generational tension, and the loss of roots.

The Sembrich will host the lively lakeside program Call of the Wild: Horns of The Philadelphia Orchestra on Sunday, August 15 at 6:00 PM. Jennifer Montone and Jeffrey Lang, Principal and Associate Principal horn players with The Philadelphia Orchestra, will present an outdoor concert featuring a cornucopia of musical delights. From traditional hunting calls to masterful concerti, the program will celebrate the horn in all its majesty and glory. Repertoire highlights include works of Mozart, Kalliwoda, and Haydn. Additionally, Philadelphia Orchestra violinist and Sembrich Board Member Philip Kates will join the ensemble in a performance of his own composition, Legende, written in the 1980s for legendary horn player Mason Jones.

Due to strong demand, The Sembrich has added an additional showing of Under The Greenwood Tree: Shakespeare in Nature, an immersive outdoor performance by the Adirondack Shakespeare Company, at 4:00 PM on Wednesday, August 25. Visitors will explore The Sembrich’s lakeside grounds while enjoying scenes prepared by the actors of the Adirondack Shakespeare Company in this unique outdoor experience. Specially curated for The Sembrich’s landscapes and waterscapes, these musical and dramatic selections from the plays of William Shakespeare speak to the beauty and magic of the natural world.

The Sembrich is dedicating the upcoming performance Nature, Our Gentlest Mother in memory of long-time Sembrich Board President William “Bill” Hubert. Hubert served as President of The Sembrich’s Board of Directors for over a decade, beginning in 2008, and sadly passed away this summer. The performance on Wednesday, August 11 at 2:00 PM is a celebration of the connection of nature and song performed by Sopranos Sylvia Stoner and Suna Gunther and features works by Aaron Copland, Richard Strauss, Lilli Boulanger, and Lori Laitman.

The Sembrich continues its 2021 Summer Festival with Nature, Our Gentlest Mother an afternoon song recital with sopranos Sylvia Stoner and Suna Gunther. Celebrating the connection of nature and song, listeners will experience the beauty of Aaron Copland’s settings of Emily Dickinson poems, luscious songs by Richard Strauss, and works of women composers including Lori Laitman and Lili Boulanger.

BOLTON LANDING – The Sembrich presents the must-see lakeside performance Music for the Great Outdoors with “wizard of the accordion” Michael Bridge on Saturday August 7 at 6:00 PM. The evening’s repertoire ranges from a technically demanding classic by J.S. Bach to popular gems, such as Csardas by Monti and Moon River by Henry Mancini, and works with a Spanish flair, including Andaluzia by Granados and Intoxicating, a tango composed by Bridge himself. Audience members will hear both an acoustic instrument and a more modern digital accordion and will delight in Bridge’s original arrangement of Tchaikovsky’s iconic 1812 Overture.

The Sembrich will host a live-stream of Seagle Festival’s world premiere opera HARMONY with a champagne toast on Saturday, August 14 at 7:00 PM. The evening will include a live introduction by The Sembrich’s Artistic Director Richard Wargo, a champagne toast, and a live-streamed screening of Seagle Festival’s world premiere event.

The Sembrich Continues its Touba Family Foundation World Music Wednesdays concert series with Russian Folk Trio Moscow Nights on Wednesday, July 28 at 2:00 PM. Moscow Nights is an exciting, versatile trio of world-renowned, prize-winning musicians from Russia. Now based in Raleigh, NC, the classically trained ensemble has established itself as one of the most popular folk groups in the United States and Western Europe.

BOLTON LANDING – The Sembrich presents the innovative Scrag Mountain Duo in “The Living Earth,” an eclectic program that evokes the beauty and grandeur of the natural world, on Saturday July 24 at 6:00 PM. The Vermont-based soprano and string bass duo will present an evening specially curated for The Sembrich’s idyllic lakeside grounds. In addition to prepared music, audience members will experience a "Duet with Lake George" come to life in real time as the duo’s bassist Evan Premo uses a loop pedal on his string bass to improvise on and transform the natural sounds of the lake environment into a new composition.

We mourn the passing of William “Bill” Post Hubert, long-time President of The Sembrich’s Board of Directors, with tremendous sorrow.