Saturday, March 21 @ 7:30 PM

Sunday, March 22 @ 3 PM

Christ Lutheran Church, 10707 Soquel Drive, Aptos, CA

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SONGS OF RESISTANCE

Throughout history music has been used to communicate the deep and varied emotions of our shared human experience. In this program, we address the current emotional state of our world starting in the depths of despair with Shostakovich’s eighth string quartet from Communist Russia, and ending with a message of hope and gratitude delivered by a late-Beethoven string quartet. We feature works by contemporary composers Caroline Shaw, Jessie Montgomery, and Eliza Brown that address this theme of political protest, resistance to the status quo, and hope for a better future. It also features the world premiere of a new work by Santa Cruz composer Chris Pratorius Gómez, in collaboration with poet Kristen Nelson, written specifically for this program.

PROGRAM

Dmitri Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor Op. 110
Eliza Brown: “the light that blurred the stars” – 5 poems by Susan Stewart, for soprano and string quartet

Intermission

Jessie Montgomery: Source Code
Chris Pratorius Gómez: New work in collaboration with queer poet Kristen Nelson. 
Caroline Shaw: And So
Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet in A minor Op. 132 “Heiliger Dankgesang eines Genesenen an die Gottheit, in der lydischen Tonart”, Molto Adagio, Andante (3rd mvt only)