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Closing Night: Wireworks

Wireworks

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GLCMF invites you to meet the artists at a special reception at the Park West Museum in Southfield following the concert.

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Bringing the festival to a close with music built from small, repeating patterns, Closing Night:Wireworks explores how repeated shapes give rise to deep emotional worlds. Fauré’s Piano Quartet No. 2 unfolds in flowing, intricate layers, each phrase subtly echoing the last, while Brahms’s Two Songs for Voice, Viola, and Piano weaves voice and viola into a tender, interlaced duet. Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story selections bring energy and elegance to the finale, grounded in the iconic tritone interval that underpins the entire score and its vision of love and equality. Like the textiles of Ruth Adler Schnee, whose work inspired this season, each piece turns careful design into something luminous, human, and alive.

ARTISTS
Inon Barnatan, piano
Gilles Vonsattel, piano
Hsin-Yun Huang, viola
Matthew Duvall, percussion
Jonathan Smith, percussion
Christine Goerke, soprano
Trio Dolce, Shouse ensemble

Performance Sponsors: Bernstein Symphonic Dances | Franziska Schoenfeld
Piano Sponsorship: The use of pianos throughout the Festival is sponsored by Andrea & Woody Leung.

Program

Gabriel Fauré: Piano Quartet No. 2 in G minor, Op. 45 
(1845-1924)
Allegro molto moderato
Allegro molto
Adagio non troppo
Allegro molto
Huang, Trio Dolce

Johannes Brahms: Two Songs for Voice, Viola, and Piano, Op. 91
(1833-1897)
Gestillte Sehnsucht (Stilled longing)
Geistliches Wiegenlied (Sacred lullaby)
Goerke, Huang, Barnatan

— INTERMISSION —

Leonard Bernstein arr. Paul McKibbins and Robert Phillips: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story 
(1918-1990)
Barnatan, Vonsattel, Duvall, Smith

Program Notes

Tonight—our last night—I want to linger with the presence that has so patiently haunted these last two weeks. Ruth Adler Schnee was a marvel, an inventor of patterns who wielded her pen with a freedom and intuition few textile artists dream of achieving. A work of hers pulsates with that inscrutable logic of inner life by which organisms make fibonacci patterns out of instinct: nature herself organizes in dizzying shapes at Adler Schnee’s command. Read more…

© Ty Bouque

Featured Artists

GILLES VONSATTEL

Gilles Vonsattel

piano

Hsin-Yun Huang

viola

Matthew Duvall

percussion

Inon Barnatan

piano

Percussion Chamber Music Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival

Jonathan Smith

percussion

Christine Goerke

soprano

Trio Dolce

Shouse ensemble

Ruth Adler Schnee

Textile and Interior Designer