VISION

Our season closes with a collection of pieces that explore the conduit between sense and spirit. Nearly a millennium apart, Julius Eastman and Hildegard of Bingen capture spirituality through visionary imagery and notation in “Buddha” and “Columba aspexit.” Sergei Prokofiev explores the line between dream and reality in “2 Poems,” while Rebecca Clarke conveys a tender portrait of the Ancient Greek god of dreams in “Morpheus.” Charles Ives and William Grant Still speculate about life after death in “The Celestial Railroad” and “Three Visions.” Peggy Glanville-Hicks offers “13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,” an exercise in continuous visual variation based on Wallace Stevens’ poem, while Gabriel Fauré’s “Piano Quintet in D minor” unveils a shifting contrapuntal horizon. Alexander Scriabin realizes a suspenseful mystical vision in “Vers la flamme” about a fire storm that consumes the earth, leading to a climactic, delirious release of energy. Join us for music that opens the eye and the mind’s eye.

Program:

Benjamin T. Martin: Premiere

Hildegard of Bingen: Columba aspexit (The dove peered in)

Sergei Prokofiev: 2 Poems Op. 9

William Grant Still: Three Visions

Charles Ives: The Celestial Railroad

Intermission

Gabriel Fauré: Piano Quintet in D minor

Julius Eastman: Buddha

Rebecca Clarke: Morpheus

Peggy Glanville-Hicks: 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

Alexander Scriabin: Vers la flamme (Toward the Flame)

Artists:

Alexandre Tchaykov, piano

Anna-Sofia Botti, piano

Yekaterina Lynch, soprano

Nanki Chugh, violin

Alisa Luera, violin

Nicholas Lindell, viola

Amy Jong, cello

Benjamin T. Martin, composer

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