Concert #3: Today's Voices, Waynesville NC

Every experiment needs many voices - not just one hypothesis, but a chorus of different questions asked at the same time. This program is that chorus of questions.

Caroline Shaw's Entr'acte opens the conversation with a work that listens as much as it speaks. Edgar Meyer's Duet for Cello and Bass goes somewhere entirely unexpected with two low voices finding a common language. Reinaldo Moya's Yara receives its world premiere, with the composer joining us in person; it is a new branch on a living tree. Dvořák closes the evening with his String Quintet, roots running deep, canopy wide open.

Four composers with four different vantage points. One great ongoing experiment.

This season is named The Great Experiment after the founding vision of our self-governed republic. Chamber music shares many of the virtues required for a democratic republic - trust in one another, freedom of thought and purpose, and a belief in one’s ability to do good for the wider world. Each program this season explores this experiment from a different angle: expansion, equality, and class, and all through the lens of tremendous chamber music performed by tremendous chamber musicians.

CMS Carolinas is a program of Warren Wilson College. If you'd like to support the music beyond your ticket, a tax-deductible donation can be made at cms-carolinas.org - every gift helps bring world-class chamber music to the Blue Ridge and Piedmont.

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