Mezzo-soprano Fleur Barron and the Parker Quartet tour a new work setting poems by Victoria Chang and Arthur Sze. Linking the ecopoetics of the present with traditional Asian poetic aesthetics and the natural world, the work also includes Sze’s translations of Tao Qian. The nature-themed program includes a new arrangement of “The lonely one in autumn” from Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde.

Performances:

Harvard University (Nov. 15), with poets Victoria Chang and Arthur Sze, and a pre-concert discussion. Part of a three-day residency at Harvard.

Philadelphia Chamber Music Society (Nov. 20)

Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music (Nov. 23)

Brahms: Im Herbst from Fünf Gesänge, Op. 104 (Arr. Parker Quartet)
J. L. Adams: The Wind in High Places
Cheung: New Work TBA  Philadelphia Premiere/PCMS Co-Commission
Mahler: Der Einsame im Herbst from Das Lied von der Erde (Arr. Cheung)
Brahms: String Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 67