Inspirations: Echoes Across Time

The Santa Cruz Chamber Players present:

Marea Ensemble

Rebecca Dulatre-Corbin, concert director and viola
Lori Schulman, soprano
Shannon D’Antonio, violin
Samantha Bounkeua, violin
Kristin Garbeff, cello

Photo: Steve DiBartolomeo

No composer works in isolation. Every piece of music carries traces of what came before it: ideas borrowed, transformed, challenged, or rediscovered. This program places contemporary composers alongside the artists who inspired them, creating unexpected conversations across generations. Music by Caroline Shaw, Claude Debussy, Jake Heggie, Beethoven, Clara Schumann, Béla Bartók, and Jessie Montgomery shows us that musical creativity is rarely solitary. Composers are always listening to one another—even across centuries.

PROGRAM

• Caroline Shaw: Cant voi l’aube
• Claude Debussy: String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10
  • II. Assez vif et bien rythmé
• Jake Heggie: Camille Claudel: Into the Fire
  • Prelude – Awakening
  • IV. La petite châtelaine (“Lady of the Manor”)
  • V. The Gossips
• Caroline Shaw: Blueprint
• Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet in Bb Major Op. 18, No. 6
  • IV. La Malinconia: Adagio-Allegretto quasi allegro

Intermission

• Clara Schumann (Arr. Aribert Reimann): Drei Lieder
• Béla Bartók: Duo for Two Violins, Sz. 98
• Jessie Montgomery: Duo for Two Violins
  • II. Initiation Song
  • V. Swallow
• Rocking Horse Album Selections: 
  • Like Someone in Love
  • Rocking Horse Road
  • Fragile