With Heidi Hoffman, cello and Nathaniel Worrell, piano.<br><b
r><br>This program brings together music shaped by remembrance, inspiratio
n, and dialogue across time. Kinan Azmeh’s Prayer, composed in Damascus i
n 2003, honors the humanism and courageous call for justice of Palestinian
scholar Edward Said. Sally Lamb McCune’s<br> Valentine No. 1 remembers our
friend and mentor Cornell composer Steven Stucky on the 10th anniversary o
f his passing. Elsewhere, Márton Illés reimagines the music of John Bull a
cross four centuries, Brahms responds to the artistry of clarinetist Richa
rd Mühlfeld,<br> and a new work by composer and singer Sami Anguaya carrie
s these musical conversations into th