Music and nature in season

Dingmans Ferry - On Sunday, March 18, Kindred Spirits Arts Programs Inc. will team up with the Pocono Environmental Education Center, of Dingmans Ferry to celebrate the arrival of spring. The program will be a unique afternoon that explores the connection between nature, art and architecture. The event begins at 2:30 p.m., with a guided nature walk through the late winter woods. This exploration of the forest will be followed by a concert of chamber music performed by the Oxbow String Quartet and guest harpist Amanda Evans in the Pocono Environmental Education Center’s Visitors’ Center. Designed by renowned architect Peter Bohlin, the new Visitors’ Center offers sweeping views of the woodlands passing out of winter into spring. In keeping with this setting, the concert program will feature the music of American composer Alan Hovhaness whose compositions evoke the many moods of the natural world. Combining Western musical traditions with eastern musical styles, Hovhaness created simple serene melodies which paved the way for composers like Arvo Part and Henryk Gorecki. In addition to the work by Hovhaness, the concert will also include works by Tchaikovsky and Mendelssohn and will offer a musical experience that matches the emotions felt when one encounters nature first hand. Tickets are $20 for adults, $10 for children under the age of 12 and can be purchased at the Pocono Environmental Education Center and at The Gallery at Forest Hall 101 Harford Street, in Milford. For more information, call PEEC at 570 828 2319 or contact lokuta@wskllawfirm.com .