Hosted Concert: Open arms, open hearts
Sun, Oct 06
|private home
We open Season 11 with two works—written almost 200 years apart and on different continents— that tap the deepest corners of your soul while also lifting you out of the everyday and into the sublime.
Time & Location
Oct 06, 2024, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
private home, Groton, MA, USA
About the event
Many of our hosts generously open their homes to additional guests. To request an invitation to this event, please email christina@sheffieldchamberplayers.org and let us know how you heard about us!
We open Season 11 with two works—written almost 200 years apart and on different continents— that tap the deepest corners of your soul while also lifting you out of the everyday and into the sublime. Shelley Washington’s 2019 String Quartet Middleground overlays rhythmic grooves with sweeping melodies passing between the four voices. Schubert’s transcendent cello quintet shares some compositional DNA with the Washington, particularly an incredible emotional sincerity, and the ability to lift the listener onto beautiful waves as though being carried through the twists and turns of life. Schubert wrote this work in the late summer and early fall of 1828, and it reflects the freedom and joy of summer, alongside autumnal melancholy that perhaps hints at Schubert’s all too short life coming to an end. ~ Sasha Callahan
PROGRAM
Middleground | Shelley Washington (b. 1991) ~ 10 minutes
Cello Quintet | Franz Schubert (1797—1828) ~ 55 minutes