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Cassia Streb / Sandstone Quartet – Music for the Open Sky
MUSIC
Cassia Streb / Sandstone Quartet
Music for the Open Sky
Saturday, April 4, 2026, 7:30PM
Performance to be followed by a reception with the artists.
Lorraine Boccardo Theater
“Across centuries, composers have looked to the night sky as a place for reflection—an expanse that invites both wonder and humility. This program brings together music written more than five hundred years apart, tracing different ways composers have contemplated the heavens.” Cassia Streb
For centuries, composers have looked to the night sky as a source of reflection and wonder. This program brings together music written more than 500 years apart, tracing different ways artists have contemplated the cosmos.
Beginning with Josquin des Prez’s haunting Renaissance lament—heard here in a new 2026 string quartet arrangement—the program moves through Beethoven’s luminous “Razumovsky” Quartet, whose slow movement was inspired by his contemplation of the stars. Contemporary works by Leila Adu-Gilmore and Laurence Crane extend this tradition, blending spectral harmony, rhythmic complexity, and fragments of Beethoven with imagery captured by NASA spacecraft and telescopes.
Together, these works invite listeners to pause, look upward, and hear the vastness of the universe translated into sound.
TICKETSPerformers
- Felix Hernandez-Jones, violin
- Adrienne Andisheh, violin
- Cassia Streb, viola
- Kevin Mills, cello