Concert #3: Today's Voices, Waynesville NC

Every experiment needs many voices - not just one hypothesis, but a chorus of different questions asked at the same time. This program is that chorus of questions.

Caroline Shaw's Entr'acte opens the conversation with a work that listens as much as it speaks. Edgar Meyer's Duet for Cello and Bass goes somewhere entirely unexpected with two low voices finding a common language. Reinaldo Moya's Yara receives its world premiere, with the composer joining us in person; it is a new branch on a living tree. Dvořák closes the evening with his String Quintet, roots running deep, canopy wide open.

Four composers with four different vantage points. One great ongoing experiment.

Caroline Shaw: Entr'acte
Edgar Meyer: Duet No. 2 for Cello and Bass
Reinaldo Moya: Yara for String Quartet (world premiere)
Antonín Dvořák: String Quintet No. 2 in G major, Op. 77

This season is named The Great Experiment after the founding vision of our self-governed republic. Chamber music shares many of the virtues required for a democratic republic - trust in one another, freedom of thought and purpose, and a belief in one’s ability to do good for the wider world. Each program this season explores this experiment from a different angle: expansion, equality, and class, and all through the lens of tremendous chamber music performed by tremendous chamber musicians.

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