7:00pm / Join us for a conversation with Brentano violinist Mark Steinberg and composer Melinda Wagner. 

The Brentano String Quartet and soprano Dawn Upshaw join forces for this special evening. Early English work will flow toward the famous Lament from Purcell’s opera Dido and Aeneas, in which Dido confesses an intensely intimate plea to a friend. After intermission, composer Melinda Wagner and librettist Stephanie Fleischmann breathe new life into Dido, imagining her psyche, her vulnerability, and her strength. This unique monodrama will probe a truly compelling character through the concentrated closeness of the chamber music experience.  

Program:

Henry Purcell: Oh, let me weep; Fantasias No. 5 and 7 
Matthew Locke: Suite No. 2 
John Dowland: Come again, sweet love doth now invite; Can she excuse my wrongs; Weep you no more, sad fountains  
Thomas Tomkins: Aleman  
William Byrd: Though Amaryllis Dance in Green  
Robert Johnson: The Witty Wanton  
Henry Purcell: When I am laid in earth (Dido’s lament) 
Melinda Wagner: Dido Reimagined