Something to Write Home About invites you to create right alongside us, penning postcards as we perform an elastic program spanning the 16th century up through today. Through recorded interviews, historic letters, and nimble storytelling, we’ll connect the composers, their music, and you the listener in an animated evening of shared creativity.
Your canvas is a postcard or letter on which you’ll write personal messages to family and friends, inspired by the music in the moment. Something to Write Home About transforms a one-night event into a creative collaboration, the effects of which will ripple out for weeks to come. Just imagine the look on the face of a loved one, opening their mailbox and finding an unexpected, hand-written message from you.
Praised by The New Yorker magazine as providing the “...signal service of obliterating the dividing line between past and present, tradition and avant-garde…” we offer this interactive experience as not only a melding of the head and heart, but an opportunity to celebrate the creative spirit in us all.
PROGRAM
O Magnum Mysterium (1572) – Tomás Luis de Victoria (arr. Spektral Quartet)
Animé et très décidé from String Quartet in G Minor, L 85 Op. 10 (1893) – Claude Debussy
I’m Hiding Your Present From You (2013) – Arthur Russell (arr. Katherine Young)
Andante from String Quartet No. 13 in A Minor, D. 804, “Rosamunde” (1824) – Franz Schubert
Prospective Dwellers (2016) – Tomeka Reid
VENUE COVID GUIDELINES
Proof of vaccination or negative test with 72 hours of the performance is required.
Everyone, regardless of vaccination status, is required to wear a mask at all times while indoors.
Proof of vaccination can be provided in advance by emailing a photo of your CDC vaccination card to BoxOffice@LJMS.org
Proof of negative test can be presented to the box office staff when you arrive for the performance.
Without proof of vaccination or recent negative test, you will not be admitted into the performance.