Bringing the festival to a close with music built from small, repeating patterns, Closing Night:Wireworks explores how repeated shapes give rise to deep emotional worlds. Fauré’s Piano Quartet No. 2 unfolds in flowing, intricate layers, each phrase subtly echoing the last, while Brahms’s Two Songs for Voice, Viola, and Piano weaves voice and viola into a tender, interlaced duet. Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story selections bring energy and elegance to the finale, grounded in the iconic tritone interval that underpins the entire score and its vision of love and equality. Like the textiles of Ruth Adler Schnee, whose work inspired this season, each piece turns careful design into something luminous, human, and alive.

Jonathan Smith

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Jun 21, 2025

Closing Night: Wireworks · Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival

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