Sound Shapes

The deep, organic resonance of the bass clarinet weaves through the seamless sections of York Bowen’s Phantasy Quintet, creating a single, continuous shape. In Christopher Cerrone’s Nervous Systems, symmetry is found in the tension between rugged modernist structures and the fluid rhythms of the sea. The program culminates with the Brahms Clarinet Quintet, a masterwork that achieves a perfect geometric arc by folding its final echoes back into its very first breath.

Program

York Bowen: Phantasy Quintet, Op. 93

Christopher Cerrone: Nervous Systems

Johannes Brahms: Clarinet Quintet, Op. 115

Artists

Calvin Falwell, clarinet

John Vaida, violin

Arthur Moeller, violin

Amy Iwazumi, viola

Bryan Hayslett, cello

This program is supported in part by the armature and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.