HOME @ 7PM

Our first concert of the season is an emotional journey of just what “home” might mean. The lack of home or longing for one is tenderly portrayed in the beautiful string quartet bearing the title of our program Home by Pulitzer Prize and Grammy Award-winning composer, Kevin Puts. Then there’s the home of understanding one’s cultural and racial identity.

Might Call You Art for soprano and string quartet is written by Emmy Award-winning composer Jasmine Arielle Barnes (born 1991). The title, comes from the last poem in this four-movement song cycle setting of the poetry of East Cleveland native King Weatherspoon. The words resonated with Barnes’s experience as a Black musician, and her nuanced treatment of poetic tone reflects her deep understanding of Weatherspoon’s lyrics. Her music has been described as “the best possible blend of Billie Holiday and Claude Debussy” by the Boston Globe. Jasmine sets the poems tunefully, like…