Longy’s performance are free and open to the public, but please register in advance.
Berman honors one of the 20th century’s most iconoclastic composers, Charles Ives, born 150 years ago in 1874, by placing two of his solo piano works in conversation with a set of four newly commissioned musical portraits of women who were pivotal figures in American Transcendentalism. The new works are written by composers whom Berman has known for over 30 years: Eve Beglarian, David Sanford, Marti Epstein, and Elena Ruehr.
Charles Ives Second Piano Sonata, “Concord”
Eve Beglarian “As syllable from sound”
David Sanford “Underground”
Marti Epstein “Piano in the Palace Beautiful”
Elena Ruehr “Summer on the Lakes, in 1843”
