Concert IV: Triple Duo

David Hoose, CONDUCTOR

Collage New Music
Catherine French, VIOLIN; Jan Müller-Szeraws, CELLO; Sarah Brady, FLUTE; Alexis Lanz, CLARINET; Christopher Oldfather, PIANO; Craig McNutt, PERCUSSION

April 25, 2027, at 3pm
Longy School of Music, Edward Pickman Hall (Cambridge, MA)

Presented in partnership with Longy School of Music

The Frank B. Epstein Concert

Pre-Concert Talk at 2:00pm with Artistic Director Eric Nathan and composers

$35 General Admission; $15 Students (Longy Students and Faculty: Free)

ABOUT

The season finale welcomes back David Hoose to the program in a concert whose centerpiece is Elliott Carter’s Triple Duo, a virtuosic work that divides the sextet into three duos. Written in 1983, ten years into Collage’s history, it is paired with Schuller’s work, Duologue from the same year, whose 100th birthday was recently celebrated, a longtime Collage friend and former guest conductor. Longtime Collage friends Richard Cornell, whose 1998 Collage commission is reprised, Yu-Hui Chang and Augusta Read Thomas are featured, with music following in the lineage the two elder composers featured on the second half. Juri Seo’s “Jack-in-the-box” from Toy Store is a high octane work for solo violin and electronics, moving the duo relationship into the realm of technology. Juri has become a new friend of Collage, continuing our survey of her recent chamber works for a third season.

PROGRAM

Juri Seo: “I. Jack in the Box” from Toy Store (2022)
violin, electronics

Augusta Read Thomas: Acrobats (2018)
Flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano

Yu-Hui Chang: Intersect (2014)
Flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano

Richard Cornell: The Light of October (1998)
Collage Commission
Flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion

INTERMISSION

Gunther Schuller: “IV. Fiddle Music” from Duologue (1983)
Violin, piano

Elliott Carter: Triple Duo (1983)
Flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion

Please join Collage for a reception following the performance