Ohrwurm explores how tunes and dances wormed their way into many aspects of music-making in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe – and, in traversing the centuries, contemporary compositions testify to the earworm’s secured place in modern life.

This concert is in memory of Theodore Hepp.

A Note from the Artist: Jeffrey Mumford's undiluted days is the tempestuous heart of this program, set against Tchaikovsky's great elegy on the second half. Raw, passionate, and elegiac by turns, Mumford's trio gathers around it a small community of works ranging from Carlo Gesualdo to Alma Mahler, Édith Piaf to Irish traditional, all sharing a quality of unapologetic, undiluted experience. In the shadow of these twin elegies, we are charmed by mild summers and the joys of friendship, we experience the pains of heartbreak and la vie en rose, and we begin gradually to introduce the universe of emotion we will encounter fully in Tchaikovksy's "in memory of a great artist."

This concert is sponsored by Augusta Gross and Leslie B. Samuels.

The ideas of east meeting west, Islamic to Jewish cultures, being adopted by different cultures yet still drawing on family home and roots, come into focus in this programme. Jamal brings his own heritage of Azerbaijan and Turkey alongside his UK/central European training to bare on a musical exploration of the powerful concept of intimacy and distance.

This concert is sponsored by Marilyn G. and Joseph B. Schwartz, longtime friends of CAG.

A Note from the Artist: Into the Light is really a storybook of my own life centered around the subject of under-representation in Classical music through the lens of an under-represented instrument. Through that, I share personal West Indian influences and culture, memories from my childhood, family members who have inspired me and shaped my perspective, and connect that with the current work I’m doing to hopefully motivate and give opportunities to the next generation of musicians of color. Into the Light speaks to today’s important conversation of diversity and true equal opportunity in the arts, finding one’s own voice despite the circumstances.

Into the Light is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

In memory of William Reid Pitts, Jr. M.D.