For our Applefest in September we performed once again by the Trinity Church in Northborough MA. We played on September 17 2022 from 10am-12 noon. We played two octets this year. One by August Walter composed in 1849 originally, then revised slightly in 1863. We also performed the famous Schubert Octet opus 166. We also […]
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Septet concert in 8/2021- 2 septets by Blanc and Rainer, with student soloist Emma Li playing two solos by Handel and Martini
November 18th, 2021 
Jacob Litoff This here is our second program from the end of the summer 2021 of two septets we performed and recorded for Quincy Cable TV. Our septet performance we played two septets here by Adolph Blanc and by Rudolph Johann Joseph Rainer, a student of Beethoven. And .Emma Li plays to violin solos by Handel and […]
Charles River Sinfonietta video 1 from summer of 2021. Octets by Mendlessohn & Enesco and soloist playing Brahms and Rodrigo
November 18th, 2021 Jacob Litoff We have to really thank the Quincy Cable TV for helping us .. we recorded a few programs for them to be shown on Cable TV stations these last few months . They are now starting to be shown on the TV stations . Here is our first one. We’d been hoping to have several […]
Heinrich Hofmann
October 21st, 2020 Jacob Litoff Heinrich Hofmann was a German composer who lived in the 19th century from January 13 1842 when he was born in Berlin until July 16 1902 when he died in Grob – Tabarz, Thuringia. He was very popular during his lifetime and his music was greatly sought after, not only in his home country […]
Carl Amand Mangold
October 16th, 2020 Jacob Litoff In our video the Charles River Sinfonietta made on September 22, 2020 to be put on Cable TV in many towns we’d gotten grants and support to give concerts this year, the first piece on the program was a septet by Carl Amand Mangold written in 1855. It appears that previous to our video […]
Charles RIver Sinfoinietta video made on 9/22/20 in Quincy Library, Quincy, MA to take the place of some of our concerts
October 14th, 2020 Jacob Litoff This is a video made by members of the Charles River Sinfonietta on September 22, 2020. It is to take the place of some of the concerts we’d gotten grants and support for. It is two septets for violin, viola, cello, bass, clarinet , bassoon and french horn. The first one we played is 4 […]
Edwin York Bowen the composer of a quintet for bass clarinet and string quartet that we hope to do soon
June 28th, 2020 Jacob Litoff Edwin York Bowen was born February 22, 1884 in Crouch Hill , London and died November 23, 1961 after several decades as a talented musician and composing over 160 musical works many of which remained unpublished and unperformed until after his death. His music falls in the category of Romantic with rich harmonic language. He […]
A New Grant We Just Got
January 23rd, 2020 Jacob Litoff We just got a notice that we got our grant in Weston MA for giving a chamber music concert there too this year.
A Few More Grants We Got For Concerts This Year
January 20th, 2020 Jacob Litoff It looks like we’ve gotten a few more of our grants for chamber music concerts in the summer of 2020.. We have now gotten the grants not only in Methuen and Watertown, but in Northborough, Milton, Fall River and Quincy. We’re hoping to get it again in Plymouth as well. We should have some wonderful […]
We Got Our Grant In Methuen MA Again.
January 3rd, 2020 Jacob Litoff We just got a notice that we got our grant once again in Methuen MA from the Methuen LCC and we will be playing a septet concert at the end of this summer again at the Methuen Memorial Concert Hall.
