2025 Summerfest Series: Week Four (July 26-27)

We end our season with music that borrows, blends, and blooms. Guillaume Connesson’s Sextour plays with minimalism and dance in a jubilant toast to the New Year. Charles Koechlin’s Quatre Petites Pièces offer refined snapshots of late Romantic elegance, while Elizabeth Brown’s Blue Minor highlights the personal and meditative with its tender tribute to her father. Finally, Bohuslav Martinů’s buoyant Nonet, written in the final year of his life, evokes folk rhythms and bittersweet nostalgia in equal measure. It’s a week of joy and reflection, of parting gifts and playful nods—a perfect coda to a season that travels far, and deeply.