Please note, this concert is presented without intermission and will last approximately one hour.

Program

Samuel Barber: Adagio for Strings

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C Minor

Peter Chatterjee: When the alarm(s) stopped

$12 Students and Children, $24 Adults (Reserved Seating)

About the Selections

While When the alarm(s) stopped was intended to be neither pictorial nor directly descriptive, I was inspired to write this piece by a variety of natural and social cycles in which warning signs are downplayed, ignored, and eventually engulfed by crisis, only for the cycle to repeat again after a brief period of supposed, but surface-level reflection. Such cycles take on musical life through sounds that characterize different instrumental families. Throughout all of the circumstances of the piece — the building climactic points, uncanny recurring moments, and shifting, melting — the strings function as a sort of plane from which winds and brass emerge and come into conflict. While the closing of the piece is intended to be left open to interpretation, the shrinking of the strings combined with the return of unsettled activity in the percussion leaves me with the impression that while such cycles are not fated to repeat, they may do so until interrupted.

   — Peter Chatterjee