Plainfield Concerts

Monday, August 31, 2026, 7:00 pm until 8:30 pm
Plainfield Congregational Chuch, 356 Main St., Route 116, Plainfield, MA

Four Mondays in August at 7 p.m.
at the Plainfield, Massachusetts, Congregational Church
356 West Main Street, Plainfield, Massachusetts

Founded in 2009, Concerts at 7 is a volunteer nonprofit arts program of the Plainfield Congregational Church. We sponsor a summer chamber music series at the church, presenting four concerts each August free of charge. All are welcome. The Plainfield Congregational Church is located in the center of Plainfield on Route 116.

August 31 at 7 p.m.: The Hartford Symphony Orchestra Wind Ensemble will perform Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Serenade for thirteen winds in B-flat major, K. 361/370a. The piece is scored for 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 basset horns, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, and contrabassoon.
In Peter Shaffer's play Amadeus, Mozart's rival Antonio Salieri, having at first taken the young composer for a buffoon, on examining the score of the third movement of the Serenade says, “On the page it looked nothing. The beginning simple, almost comic. Just a pulse. Bassoons and basset horns, like a rusty squeezebox. And then suddenly, high above it, an oboe. A single note, hanging there, unwavering. Until a clarinet took over and sweetened it into a phrase of such delight! This was no composition by a performing monkey! This was a music I'd never heard. Filled with such longing, such unfulfillable longing, it had me trembling. It seemed to me that I was hearing the voice of God.“