Name: Sandbox Percussion Premieres Christopher Cerrone
Start: 2026-07-19T16:00:00
Location: Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts

Sandbox Percussion

Caramoor

The Bedford Music Festival brings a full day of live music and local energy to Westchester’s most beautiful grounds. Grab food and drinks from local vendors while your kids stay busy with activities designed just for them. Pack your lawn chairs and gather with your neighbors for a celebration that’s as much about the community as it is about the music. It’s your Sunday to settle in, soak up the atmosphere, and experience a very special day of music, right here in your backyard.

Bedford Music Festival

The Rosen House at Caramoor

In this immersive outdoor premiere, GRAMMY Award-winning composer Christopher Cerrone traces how people and things change — slowly, with determination and joy. The work begins with a processional: Sandbox Percussion and the Young People's Chorus of New York City move through the Sunken Garden, weaving among the audience before finding their places. From there, the piece unfolds as a gradual revelation — the choristers sing alongside the percussionists, at times lending their voices to guide and shape the music, as a single phrase slowly comes into focus: the only way is through. Inspired by the first year of Cerrone's son's life, the work reaches beyond autobiography toward something more universal — the experience of having come through something hard, and the recognition that this is simply how we move forward. Throughout, the audience is free to move through the Sunken Garden.