This haunting program is a fully immersive voyage of the soul, where Romantic-era fascination with the supernatural mirrors a poignant sense of grief and healing for the modern world. Schubert’s landmark “Death and the Maiden,” with its seductive storyline and kaleidoscopic variations, sets the stage. Two works by contemporary Iranian composers frame a reimagining of Syrian folk music and Ravel’s Basque-flavored Piano Trio, written on the eve of World War I. Filled with subtexts and hidden meanings, avant-garde composer George Crumb intended his Black Angels as a protest against the war in Vietnam, and “a kind of parable on our troubled contemporary world.”
Franz Schubert
String Quartet in D minor, D. 810, “Death and the Maiden” (Mvt 2)
Arshia Samsaminia
In Eternity
Kareem Roustom
Syrian Folk Songs
Maurice Ravel
Piano Trio in A minor (Mvt 3 & 4)
Hooshyar Khayam
Maah (Moon) from “Roya”
George Crumb
Black Angels: Thirteen Images from the Dark Land
DIANA COHEN
violin
STEVEN COPES
violin
GENEVA LEWIS
violin
MICHELLE BARZEL ROSS
violin
TENG LI
viola
EMAD ZOLFAGHARI
viola
JAY CAMPBELL
cello
OLIVER HERBERT
cello
MISHKA RUSHDIE MOMEN
piano