Opening Night Concert

Friday, July 8 | 8:00pm
Works by Britten, Crumb, MacMillan, Schumann, Silvestrov, and Widmann

Valentin Silvestrov (b.1937) Postludium No. 2 (1981)
Yukiko Uno, violin

James MacMillan (b.1959) Memento (1994)
Evan Hjort, Yiliang Jiang, violins; Nicholas Mann, viola; Natasha Brofsky, cello

George Crumb (1929-2022) Zeitgeist, Six Tableaux for Two Amplified Pianos (1987)
Gilbert Kalish, Qing Jiang, Vivian Hornik Weilerstein, Alice Xu, Abigail Sin, Seth Knopp, Anna Han, Chaeyoung Park, Sophiko Simsive, pianos

Intermission

Robert Schumann (1810-1856) Märchenbilder (Fairy Tale Pictures), Op.113 (1851)
Edgar Francis, viola; Gilbert Kalish, piano

Jörg Widmann (b.1973) Und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind… (And they all lived happily ever after…) from Es war einmal… (Once upon a time…) (2015)
Barret Ham, clarinet; Hannah Burnett, viola; Gilbert Kalish, piano

Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Lachrymae, Reflections on a song of Dowland, Op.48a (1950)
Asbjørn Nørgaard, Edgar Francis, Lisa Sung, Lara Albesano, Connie Pharoah, Hannah Burnett, violas; Nathan Amaral, Eunae Koh, Julia Mirzoev, Astrid Nakamura, Çiğdem Tunçelli Sinangil, Sophia Anna Szokolay, Hee-Soo Yoon, violins; Audrey Chen, Leland Ko, Madelyn Kowalski, Mon Puo Lee, cellos; Tony Flynt, Sam Suggs, double basses

Robert Schumann Kind im Einschlummern (Child falling asleep) and Der Dichter spricht (The poet speaks) from Kinderszenen (Scenes from childhood), Op.15 (1838)
Peter Frankl, piano
Recorded in the Big Barn on July 25, 2006