Exile | Banishment | Home

What does it mean to be home and not yet home, to be "othered" or physically alienated even while at home, to search for a yearned-for distant or future land? E4TT explores this duality musically via Shostakovich's "From Jewish Folk Poetry" Op. 79 \(selections, sung in the poetry's original Yiddish\) and the World Premiere of "Skazka," a multimedia work of twisted Russian folktales reinterpreted by emerging composer Alexander Malinas \(with images by Aria Shum after Russian illustrator Ivan Bilibin\), in dialogue with works by Andrea Casarrubios \("Armadura," inspired by the life of Frida Kahlo\), Stella G. Gitelman Willoughby \("Stories of My Mother"\), Mary Bianco \(World Premiere of a new cello/piano duo\) and David Garner to text by renowned Yiddish poet Avram Sutkever \("Unter Dayne Vayse Shtern"\).

Pre-concert talk with composers Bianco and Malinas.

Performed by E4TT \(Nanette McGuinness, soprano; Megan Chartier, cello; Margaret Halbig, piano\) joined by guests Grace Wahlen, conductor; Carina Kahane soprano; Melinda Martinez Becker, mezzo-soprano; Aria Shum, violin; Taylor Robinson, flute/piccolo; Zoe King, clarinet/Bass clarinet; and Eddie Virtgaym, percussion

Co-presented by KlezCalifornia

Winner of The American Prize in 2021 for Chamber Music Performance, E4TT made its international debut in Berlin, was sponsored by the U.S. Embassy in Budapest in 2014 for a four-city tour in Hungary, and has performed at the Krakow Culture Festival, the Conservatorio Teresa Berganza in Madrid, and throughout California. Now in its 19th season, E4TT produces a weekly podcast, "For Good Measure," and has recorded five award-winning albums, with the sixth, "El Tiempo Latine," chamber music by today's classical Latine composers, just released.