Don’t miss our season opening, “Visions | Visiones,” featuring music that draws inspiration from the visual arts to reveal the composers’ painting within. Join us on Saturday, Nov. 4^th at 3pm as we return to Fort Washington Collegiate Church. Get your tickets now!

Program:

• Jean Françaix: Sérénade 
• Iván Enrique Rodríguez: 3 Visiones 
• Jessica Meyer: In the Waves 
• Ottorino Respighi: Trittico Botticelliano

Our official “Sound y Sabor” season opener features music that draws inspiration from the visual arts to reveal the composers’ painting within. The program begins with Françaix’s “Sérénade,” an energetic and vibrant ballet score conjuring the dynamic range of human physicality and all the motions we express through dance. We perform Puerto Rican composer Iván Enrique Rodríguez’s wind quintet “3 Visiones” which is inspired by the experience of hidden, even repressed memories suddenly reemerging into our conscious mind to again torment—or liberate. Next, NYC uptown composer Jessica Meyer’s “In the Waves” was written as a response to a painting by Paul Gauguin of the same name. Meyer seeks to capture a moment just before the woman of the painting flings herself into the sea, “forsaking civilization and abandoning herself to her natural, primitive instincts.” Our concert concludes with Ottorino Respighi’s Trittico Botticelliano or “Three Botticelli Pictures.” One of Respighi’s best known works, this “triptych” tours three celebrated paintings by Italian Rennaisance artist Sandro Botticelli: Spring, The Adoration of the Magi, and The Birth of Venus.