I. THE BLUE HOUR
Lili Boulanger — Nocturne (1911)
Edvard Munch — Starry Night (1893)
Rainer Maria Rilke — Excerpt from Book of Hours
II. AT THE THRESHOLD
Gabriel Fauré arr. Akira Eguchi — Après un rêve Op. 7 No. 1 (1877)
Marc Chagall — The Dream (1939)
Rumi — “The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you”
III. THE WANDERING
Amy Beach — Two Songs Op. 100 No. 1 (A Mirage) and No. 2 (Stella viatoris)
Caspar David Friedrich — Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog (1818)
Rumi — “All day I think about it, then at night I say it”
IV. NIGREDO
Josef Suk — Elegy Op. 23 (1902)
Käthe Kollwitz — Woman with Dead Child (1903)
T.S. Eliot — Excerpt from Ash Wednesday
V. INSIDE SORROW|
Maurice Ravel — Kaddish (1914)
Georges de La Tour — The Penitent Magdalen (c. 1640)
Rainer Maria Rilke — Excerpt from Book of Hours
The audience is kindly invited to light the candles that were given out before the concert and keep them on to the end of the concert. They symbolize holding the light from sorrow through to hope.
VI. THE WIDENING
Richard Strauss — Morgen (Tomorrow) Op. 27 No. 4
Claude Monet — Impression, Sunrise (1872)
T.S. Eliot — Excerpt from Little Gidding
VII. THE GOLDEN EMBRACE
Gustav Mahler arr. Otto Winterbecher — Adagietto from Symphony No. 5 (1901-1902)
Gustav Klimt — The Kiss (1907–08)
Rumi — “The minute I heard my first love story”
VIII. THE GLOW
Sergei Rachmaninov arr. M. Press — Vocalise Op. 34 No. 14 (1912)
Wassily Kandinsky — Composition VII (1913)
Rainer Maria Rilke — Excerpt from Sonnets to Orpheus
IX. THE UNFOLDING
Gustav Holst — Four Songs (Jesu Sweet / My soul has nought but fire and ice / I sing of a maiden / My Leman is so true)
Hildegard von Bingen — The Choirs of Angels from Scivias (12th century)
T.S. Eliot — Excerpt from Burnt Norton
X. WINGS WITHOUT WINGS
Catalan Carol arr. Pablo Casals — Song of the Birds (El Cant dels Ocells)
Constantin Brâncuși — Bird in Space (1923)
Rumi — “Let yourself be silently drawn”
XI. SURRENDER
Richard Strauss arr. George Strivens — Beim Schlafengehen (Upon Going to Sleep) from Four Last Songs (1948)
Vincent van Gogh — The Starry Night (1889)
T.S. Eliot — Excerpt from Little Gidding
Thanks to our series sponsors Drs. Sandra Gianturco and William Bradley.
Thanks to concert sponsors Diane and Herb Rossmeisl.