Opening Night: Latticework

Name: Opening Night: Latticework
Start: 2025-06-08T17:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-06-08T19:30:00-04:00
Location: Seligman Performing Arts Center

Opening Night: Latticework

June 8, 2025 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm Seligman Performing Arts Center

Tickets

Information about Opening Night Dinner can be found HERE.

Details

Begin the 2025 Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival with a concert that brings our theme, Blueprints in Sound, to life. This program explores how composers use structure—like a blueprint—to shape musical ideas. From the world premiere of Sean Shepherd’s Latticework and Britten’s reflections on transformation to Haydn’s classical elegance and Beethoven’s bold reimagining, each piece shows a different take on how form and creativity interact.

Artists
Gloria Chien, piano
Leila Josefowicz, violin
Philip Setzer, violin
Paul Neubauer, viola
Edward Arron, cello
Paul Watkins, cello
Alexander Kinmonth, oboe
The Dolphins Quartet, Shouse ensemble
The Paddington Trio, Shouse ensemble
Detroit Chamber Winds & Strings

OPENING NIGHT DINNER
Start the 2025 Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival in style at our Opening Night Dinner—an evening of delicious cuisine, flavorful wine, and engaging conversation with Festival artists and fellow chamber music supporters. Enjoy a buffet catered by Plum Market and take the opportunity to mingle with the talented musicians who will be performing throughout the Festival.

Information about Opening Night Dinner can be found HERE.

Program

Sean Shepherd: Latticework for violin and cello (premiere)
(b. 1979)
Josefowicz, Watkins

Benjamin Britten: Six Metamorphoses after Ovid, Op. 49
(1913-76)
Pan
Phaeton
Niobe
Bacchus
Narcissus
Arethusa
Kinmonth

Joseph Haydn: Cello Concerto in C major, Hob. VIIb:1
(1732-1809)
Moderato
Adagio
Allegro molto
Watkins, The Dolphins, The Paddington Trio, Detroit Chamber Winds & Strings

Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Quartet No. 1 in E-flat major, Op. 16
(1770-1827)
Adagio assai
Allegro con spirito
Theme and variations: Cantabile
Chien, Setzer, Neubauer, Arron

Program Notes

There is a rare little word for all this. Its coinage lies buried in a dense architectural treatise (the first of its kind, really), drafted at the behest of Caesar Augustus. In his De architectura, the Roman architect Vitruvius partitions the field of design into three constituent arenas: ichnography, orthography, and scenography. The first—and, for today, the only one that really matters—he takes from ichnos, Greek for print, and defines it as “the representation on a plane of the groundplan of the work, drawn by rule and compasses.” Ichnography, he terms modestly, is the art of the blueprint. Read more...