2025 Summerfest Series: Week Two (July 12-13)

Clouds roll across our second week, both meteorological and emotional. Alyssa Morris’s Cloud Songs gives each movement a weather system of its own, from the featherlight cirrus to the thunder of cumulonimbus. We move from sky to solid ground with Theodor Kirchner’s inventive take on Schumann’s Canonic Etudes, reframing a musical process as a living, breathing trio. And in Louise Farrenc’s dynamic Piano Quintet No. 1, we meet a composer whose brilliant chamber writing merges classical forms with Romantic fire. These works shimmer, brood, and soar, navigating the musical atmosphere.