Note:
We’re so excited to be sharing this program at the Canadian Music Center, where we will be joined by one of the composers on our program, Alice Ho!
“Da Capo'' is the story of how two young people from diaspora populations navigate complex personal identities, find kinship within each other, and continue to nurture an ever growing and changing relationship with homecoming through the power of music, art, and community. Featuring works by Ho, Ramnath, Baker, Kats-Chernin, Hisaishi, Beethoven, and Fauré.
Experiencing this music is about exploring what home means for each of us individually, and allowing ourselves to be moved collectively by that feeling. By the nostalgia, the joy and the pain, love and grief, happiness and sadness. Everything. Allowing us to notice and remember again what we miss, where we want to be, how beautiful that all is. Even if we don’t find the answers, even if we cannot return to that place, or if home was never a safe place to begin with … we can still all bond over this deep longing for home. That in itself is more than plenty.
If we can imagine it, we can create it. Even if only in fractured pieces, in moments, even if just here together during this hour of musical utopia, we can grow towards the values and principles of home. Of kindness. Of simply existing together. Company, community, kinship.
Music allows us
to remember a feeling,
and to feel that feeling.
So, hello everyone, hello home.
Nice to hear you, nice to feel you, nice to remember you, again.
Program
Part I “Finding Ourselves”
Elena Kats-Chernin - Eliza’s Aria
Ludwig van Beethoven - Violin Sonata No.1 in D Major, Op.12 No.1
I. Allegro con brio
Alice Ho - Four Seasons “Spring” and “Summer”
Kala Ramnath - Aalap and Tarana
Part II “Finding Each Other, Again”
Joe Hisaishi/Wesley Chu - Legend of Ashitaka from Princess Mononoke
David Baker - Blues (Deliver My Soul)
Earl Wild/George Gershwin - Embraceable You
Part III “Coming Home”
Gabriel Fauré - Sonata in A major, Op. 13
I. Allegro molto
II. Andante
III. Scherzo: Allegro vivo
IV. Finale: Allegro quasi presto
Tong Wang and Maitreyi Muralidharan first met as bunk mates at the Brevard Music Festival in 2012, and promptly lost contact, watching and supporting each other’s life journeys from afar. 10 years after, they rekindled their friendship in Montreal, where they decided to work together as part of Trio Eudaemonia. Their similar approaches to music and art as a window into a beautiful world of connection, passion for food and community building, and love of working together sparked the beginnings of Duo Perdendosi. Both coming from conservatory backgrounds, they recognized a need for classical and contemporary music to move away from convention and towards connection. In 2022, they created the Windwood Music Festival to collaborate with like-minded artists and share the power of music to connect land and people. Maitreyi and Tong will embark on their first tour, “Da Capo,” in April 2023, participate in a residency at the Lunenburg Academy of Music Performance in June, and return to Airdrie, Alberta to lead the first official season of the Windwood Music Festival from August 13-27. Outside of performing, they enjoy cooking, writing, and each other’s company.
