Philharmonic Chamber Music Recital

Music connects and creates identity and community and, like language, it is an integral part of the human experience. Ernst Toch’s »Geographical Fugue« is a good example of how these two forms of expression can be combined to wonderful effect when he transfers the melody and rhythm of language to musical form. Gustav Mahler’s Piano Quartet movement in A minor, composed when he was just sixteen years old with a youthful zeal and enormous reverence for his great role model Johannes Brahms, tells of searching for and finding his own musical language.