“Last(ing) Words” - Chamber Music Series

Jason Moon and Clara Neubauer, violin; Yeh-Chun Lin, viola,; Leland Ko, cello; Lindsay McIntyre, soprano; Anna Han, piano

From Perkinson’s String Trio, written on his deathbed, to Klein’s String Trio, completed nine days before his deportation to Auschwitz, the pieces on this program are in conversation with death. Mortality is the inescapable deadline which impels all events and actions; without mortality there would be no urgency. Although death only retroactively structures a person’s life narrative, with only those left behind fully understanding the context of each moment within the deceased's lives, works like Beethoven’s String Quartet Op. 132 seem uncannily in tune with the composer’s personal timeline. Can we, on some spiritual level, clock our physical battery? What role does fate have in our psyche?

- Anna Han

JOHN TAVERNA:  Akhmatova Songs (1993), for cello and soprano
JOSEPH ACHRON: Hebrew Melody
COLERIDGE-TAYLOR PERKINSON: Movement for String Trio
GIDEON KLEIN:  String Trio (violin, viola, cello) 
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH: Violin Sonata
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: String Quartet Op. 132, III. Molto Adagio

Entrance: $25

Children 18 and under free with an adult. College/University Students with ID: $10. Program is subject to change without notice. Taxes are included in the prices listed.