A Time to Weep, A Time to Laugh: For Everything, There is a Season

The Santa Cruz Chamber Players present:

Ensemble ARI

Jean Ahn, concert director
Heeguen Song, violin
Sarah Hong, cello
Sharon Lee Kim, piano

Photo courtesy of Ensemble ARI

Life unfolds in seasons: struggle and renewal, memory and discovery, sorrow and joy. This program brings together four composers from the Bay Area and Central Coast—Jean Ahn, Addie Camsuzou, Heeyoung Yang, and Ben Dorfan—whose music explores how we experience time and change. These contemporary reflections find a Romantic counterpart in Clara Schumann’s passionate Piano Trio in G minor, a work of tenderness, turbulence, and resolve. Together, these pieces remind us that although seasons return, each cycle is newly lived.

PROGRAM

• Ben Dorfan: Sonata for Violin and Piano
• Addie Camsuzou: “Beautiful Bones”
• Heeyoung Yang: “Nori” and “Pheasant Hunting Song”
• Jean Ahn: “Time to Weep, Time to Laugh”
  

Intermission

• Clara Schumann: Piano Trio in G Minor, Op. 17