Strata Echo

Name: Strata Echo
Start: 2025-06-17T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-06-17T21:30:00-04:00
Location: Temple Beth El

Strata Echo

June 17, 2025 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm Temple Beth El 248-851-1100 248-851-1100 View Venue Website

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Inspired by Ruth Adler Schnee’s textile Strata Echo, this concert explores the beauty of layered design in both fabric and sound. Hannah Kendall’s Network Bed weaves melodies in intricate patterns, followed by Frank Bridge’s Cello Sonata, where lines of music stretch and pivot with emotional depth. The evening concludes with Dvořák’s Piano Quintet No. 2, blending folk themes with sweeping romanticism.

ARTISTS:
Inon Barnatan, piano
Gilles Vonsattel, piano
Hsin-yun Huang, viola
Paul Watkins, cello
The Dolphins Quartet, Shouse ensemble
Trio Dolce, Shouse ensemble

Piano Sponsorship: The use of pianos throughout the Festival is sponsored by Andrea & Woody Leung.

Program

Hannah Kendall: Network Bed for Piano Quartet
(b. 1984)
Huang, Trio Dolce

Frank Bridge: Cello Sonata in D minor, H. 125
(1897-1941)
Allegro ben moderato
Adagio ma non troppo
Watkins, Vonsattel

— INTERMISSION —

Antonín Dvořák: Piano Quintet No. 2 in A major, Op. 81
(1841-1904)
Allegro ma non tanto
Dumka: Andante con moto
Scherzo: Molto vivace, poco tranquillo
Finale: Allegro
Barnatan, The Dolphins Quartet

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Entrance
Enter the venue via 14 Mile and Pauline Levy Rd through the west facing entrance marked with a purple circle. Please note that the entrance off of southbound Telegraph Rd is closed.

Program Notes

Tonight we return to that most fundamental of musical and architectural materials, the formal device par excellence: we return to lines. And we return to lines by way of the woman whose visual imagination and material dexterity gave the Great Lakes Festival such a prerogative to think this year about form and structure; one of her textiles lends the title for this concert. Ruth Adler Schnee’s Strata Echo looks, if we have music on the brain (and its title certainly suggests sound), like a cross-section of a wave form. Computer-generated spectral imaging of sound turns up likewise piles of bandwidths, lines of varying thicknesses and curves meant to visually replicate the acoustic fluctuations of frequencies as they move through air. The miracle of Strata Echo, however, on closer inspection, is that Adler Schnee’s lines don’t only flow, like a flat spectrogram, left to right, up and down. Read more…