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.