Public Concert: Nostalgia

Open to the public. Suggested donation $30—50 per guest/$60—100 per family.

Our season closing program expresses bittersweet nostalgia for the past, deep yearning for the future, and an awareness that we are present together in this very moment. Lyatoshynsky’s heartfelt Fourth Quartet (a “Suite on Ukrainian Themes”) and Mendelssohn’s optimistic and youthful First Quartet join selections from Reena Esmail's This is It, a collection of works not only written in the present, but also in the context of her philosophy of writing music with the express purpose of bringing people together to share a specific moment in time. ~ Megumi Stohs Lewis

PROGRAM

String Quartet No. 4 in d minor, Op. 43 | Boris Lyatoshynsky (1895—1968) ~ 20 minutes

Selections from This is It | Reena Esmail (b. 1983) ~ 15 minutes

Quartet No. 1 Op. 12 in Eb Major, Op. 12 | Felix Mendelssohn (1809—1847) ~ 24 minutes