Concordia Chamber Players Appearing In Concert November 3

Our first concert of the season is an exploration into just what "home" might mean.The lack of home—or the longing for one—is tenderly portrayed in the beautiful string quartet Home by Pulitzer Prize and Grammy-award winning composer Kevin Puts (born 1972). Then there’s the home of understanding one’s cultural and racial identity.To be fully part of one’s cultural and racial identity is another form of home. Might Call You Art, a four-movement song cycle by Emmy award-winning composer Jasmine Arielle Barnes (born 1991) sets to music the poetry of East Cleveland native King Weatherspoon. His words resonated with Barnes’ experience as a Black musician who brings stylistic references to R&B, gospel, and the marching band music of historically Black colleges and universities into her work.Finally, we explore the return to one’s home or birthplace in the String Quartet in G Major #13, Opus 106 by Czech composer Antonin Dvořák (1841-1904). This is the first work to be written entirely in his native country once Dvořák had returned home from the United States.We have an incredible lineup of artists for this performance including the mesmerizing soprano, Melissa Joseph, Anna Lee and Siwoo Kim on violin, Michael Casamir on viola and our own artistic director Michelle Djokic on cello.