Saturday, Feb 12, 4:00 pm, West Parish Church, Andover

Sunday, Feb 13, 5:30 pm, St Paul’s Church, Brookline
 

In this program, three dynamic new artists will be making their Mistral debuts: cellist Christine Lamprea, soprano Simone Paulwell, and BSO horn player Rachel Childers. Mistral favorites—violinist Sarita Kwok, violist Stephanie Fong, pianist Sophie Scolnik-Brower—and I will complete the all-women roster!

The music vaults across centuries and styles and features works by some known and some less familiar composers: a violin fantasy by the Black composer Florence Price; two gorgeous trios by French composers Louise Farrenc and Melanie Bonis; a tour-de-force string quartet by famed German composer Fanny Mendelssohn; a feisty song cycle by American composer Gwyneth Walker based on poetry by the Black poet Lucille Clifton; and finally, a haunting mixed-ensemble work called "Island Nocturnes," by the living composer Elizabeth Brown, whose music has been called “luminous, dreamlike, and hallucinatory.” Click HERE for program notes. 

• Florence B. Price: Fantasy for violin & piano
• Louise Farrenc: Trio for flute, cello, piano
• Fanny Mendelssohn:  String Quartet in Eb major
• Gwyneth Walker: No Ordinary Woman (poetry by Lucille Clifton)
• Melanie Bonis: Excerpt from Scènes de la forêt 
• Elizabeth Brown: Island Nocturnes