This special performance was recorded for FCM audiences at the Newman Center for the Performing Arts. Program is available to stream for free through October 31.
“We chose this program in part because this is some of our favorite music to be immersed in. What an extraordinary time. We rehearsed masked and distanced in a garage with the door open to the alley where people would occasionally wander or drive by and interact with us in support or surprise. We even had neighbors write notes of encouragement and thanks. It was a great reminder of the power of music to lift us out of our every day and remind us of our shared human experience.”
– Catherine Beeson, violist
Program
- Shulamit Ran: Bach-Shards
- J.S. Bach: Contrapunctus X
- Sahba Aminikia: One Day; Tehran
- Elizabeth Brown: Catalog of Scents in the Garden at Night
- Komitas Vartabed: Armenian Folk Songs: Red Shawland Clouds
- Benjamin Tomkins: Tangos for Four Lonely People, movements 1 and 4