A $150 early bird season pass to attend all 17 Endless Mountain Music Festival concerts is available now through Sunday, Dec. 31.

“The early bird season pass is an opportunity to give a music lover a great gift for Christmas, a birthday, anniversary or just because,” said Cindy Long, EMMF executive director.

Of the 17 concerts, two of the symphony orchestra concerts are free and six are $39 per person or $234 and two of the chamber concerts are free and seven are $30 per person or $210 for a total of $444.

By comparison, for $150, the price to attend each of the 13 concerts is $11.54, a saving of $294.

On Jan. 1, 2024, the price of a season pass will return to $250 or $19.23 per concert.

Long presented a platinum appreciation award to C&N for being an EMMF sponsor for all 18 years the festival has been held.

On Friday, July 19, 2024 at Commonwealth University in Mansfield, C&N is sponsoring the first concert of the Endless Mountain Music Festival’s summer season. It promises to be a wow event featuring the EMMF Symphony Orchestra with Jeffrey Biegel at the piano performing the
Pennsylvania premiere of Peter Boyer’s “Rhapsody in Red, White & Blue” in celebration of 100 years of “ George Gershwin’s 1924 iconic musical composition “Rhapsody in Blue.”

For the “Rhapsody in Blue” centennial in 2024, Biegel created the Rhapsody National Initiative project and titled the new work for Boyer to compose for piano and orchestra. Boyer is one of the most frequently performed American orchestral composers of his generation.

Biegel is a pianist, composer, and Professor at Brooklyn College. He recorded the World Premiere of “Rhapsody in Blue” – critical edition – with the Adrian Symphony and has created more than two-dozen commissioning projects with living composers in America and abroad.

“When the world went silent during Covid, I decided to bring our country together, reflecting its incredible diversity and unity through the power of music. The American flag and the centennial of Gershwin’s ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ seemed the best way to go with the new ‘Rhapsody in Red, White & Blue,’” Biegel said.

Since its hugely successful world premiere on June 30, 2023 by the Utah Symphony with Biegel at the piano, the project’s highly ambitious goal has been met with commitments from orchestras in all 50 states to perform “Rhapsody in Red, White & Blue.” 

The 2024 Endless Mountain Music Festival will feature a tasty menu of music ranging from jazz to Celtic to pops to classical works. Among them is a recently discovered “new” work by Mozart to be performed this summer.

Friday, July 19 through Sunday, Aug. 4, 2024 at venues in Pennsylvania and New York, world-class musicians will present 14 concerts at 7 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays, one on Sunday at 8 p.m. and two on Sunday afternoons at 2:30 p.m.

EMMF Symphony Orchestra concerts will be on Fridays, July 19, July 26 and Aug. 2, 2024 in Steadman Theater at Commonwealth University in Mansfield, Pa. and on Saturdays, July 20, July 27 and Aug. 3, 2024 at the Corning Museum of Glass Auditorium in Corning, N.Y.

Two free Pops concerts with the EMMF Symphony Orchestra will be on Sunday, July 21 at 2:30 p.m. at the auditorium in the Wellsboro Area School District Administration building and on Sunday, Aug. 4 at 2:30 p.m. at the Corning Museum of Glass Auditorium in Corning, N.Y.

Nine chamber music concerts featuring soloists and ensembles Monday through Thursday, July 22-25 and Sunday through Thursday, July 28-Aug. 1 will be in Pennsylvania and New York.

The two free chamber concerts will be at the Yoked Church in Knoxville in Tioga County on Wednesday, July 24 and on Sunday, July 28 outdoors under the stars at Cherry Springs State Park near Galeton in Potter County.

Youth, 20 and under, are admitted free to all 17 festival concerts.

A flex pass to attend any six festival concerts is $150.

To purchase an early bird season pass, call the Endless Mountain Music Festival at 570-787-7800, visitwww.endlessmountain.net or mail a check to 130 Main Street, Wellsboro, PA 16901.