"The night has had a central role in musical creation since the Romantic era. Schumann, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Chopin, and others used this theme, and the nocturne became a form of music, culminating in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde. Night was real life, day was gray and dead. The theme has continued to inspire great music — from Schoenberg's Transfigured Night to Carter's Night Fantasies." — Klaus Lauer, Guest Curator
Programs that dare, music that provokes, performances that inspire
