Close Encounters With Music: World Premiere – The Metamorphosis, Love

TICKETS $35 Balcony / $60 Orchestra (plus processing fees) Mahaiwe Member Discount Event Member Sale: Wednesday, August 26 at noon Public Sale: Friday, August 28 at noon Members receive $5 off each ticket Loss, remembrance, joyous recollection, metamorphosis and love. These are universal themes and a progression of states of emotion that animate the music and texture of the program. A work of shattering intensity, Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio was written in response to the composer’s grief at losing his beloved teacher, Nikolai Rubinstein, and at the same time recollecting the happy moments spent in his company. It is elegiac and cathartic, as is the newest CEWM commission from Martín-Buján, The Metamorphosis: Love, that gives the program its name. The Poet/protagonist role is sung by a tenor in dialogue with his Muse, sung by soprano, which in the end becomes Music itself. The accompanying ensemble is cello, piano, marimba and vibraphone. A companion piece (narrator, cello and percussion) is a 2015 CEWM commission from Kenji Bunch, written to a Shakespeare sonnet of desire and longing. Plus art songs from Schubert, Brahms, Fauré, Poulenc and Finzi. It’s all about transcendence and love. Max Levinson, piano; Hye-Jin Kim, violin; Omar Najmi, tenor; Dana Varga, soprano; Samuel Solomon, Nancy Zeltsman, percussion; Yehuda Hanani, cello