Season Finale: IV. We Carry Our Homes Within Us

David Hoose, CONDUCTOR (Music Director Emeritus)
Tony Arnold, SOPRANO (2024-25 Collage Artistic Partner)

Collage New Music
Sarah Brady, FLUTE; Alexis Lanz, CLARINET; Heather Braun, VIOLIN; Mary Ferrillo, VIOLA; Jan Müller-Szeraws, CELLO; Adam Gautille, TRUMPET; Christopher Oldfather, PIANO; Craig McNutt, PERCUSSION

Students from Longy's performance programs

May 4, 2025, at 7:30pm EDT
Longy School of Music, Pickman Hall (27 Garden St., Cambridge, MA)

Concert in Honor of Frank Epstein’s Retirement from Collage New Music
Presented in partnership with Longy School of Music

Pre-Concert Talk at 6:30pm with Artistic Director Eric Nathan and featured composers

$35 General Admission; $15 Students (Longy Students: Free)

ABOUT

This season finale marks founder Frank Epstein’s retirement from Collage and David Hoose’s first performance as Collage’s Music Director Emeritus. Marcos Balter’s We Carry Our Homes Within Us Which Enables Us to Fly inspires the program’s theme of “home” and the processes of finding, carrying and remembering what we each call home. The concert celebrates milestone Collage commissions – Yehudi Wyner’s 10th anniversary commission, the world premiere of Michael Gandolfi’s 50th anniversary commission, and the Boston premiere Yaz Lancaster’s commission to mark the conclusion of Eric Nathan’s first season as Artistic Director. Collage also honors the memory and recent passing of John Heiss, a longtime friend of Collage.

PROGRAM

John Heiss: Soliloquy (2007)
flute and piano 

Yehudi Wyner, Passage (1983) (10th Anniversary Collage Commission)
flute, clarinet, trumpet, violin, viola, cello, piano 

Reinaldo Moya: The Earth Outlived the Hands that Held It (2018)
clarinet, violin, piano 

Michael Gandolfi, New Work (2025) world premiere (50th anniversary Collage Commission)
flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion
Tony Arnold, soprano 

Intermission

Yaz Lancaster: New Work (2024) Boston premiere (Collage Co-Commission with Hub New Music and Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center) 
flute, clarinet, violin, cello

Marcos Balter, We Carry Our Homes Within Us Which Enables Us to Fly (2015)
flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, trumpet
Tony Arnold, soprano 
Longy students

The concert will conclude by 9:15 p.m.
Please join Collage for a reception following the performance