Looking within, calling out, standing up. Music that calls it as it sees it and always celebrates the human.

Trevor Weston, Fudo Mayoo, for string quartet

Hans Werner Henze, Adagio, Adagio, for piano trio

Frederick Rzewski, Down by the Riverside, for piano solo

Andrew Waggoner, One Kindness

Weston, The People Could Fly, for narrator and string quartet

Felix Mendelssohn, String Quartet in a minor, Op. 13

7:30 pm, (Pre-Concert Chat at 7:00)

$35, register via http://wcmconcerts.org/

WCM’s 33rd season asks, Am I my brother’s keeper? The oldest question posed by one human concerning his responsibility to another, one then posed and re-posed by artists ever since. What do owe each other; our families; our communities; our friends; and our enemies, real and imagined? We’ll ponder it all through music born out of compassion and the struggle for justice. We’re not looking for political statements; while all music has a political dimension, it’s the big, all-embracing humanity of this season’s program that inspires us. With music of Hans Werner Henze; Frederick Rzewski; Waggoner (ours truly); Composer in Residence Trevor Weston; and Felix Mendelssohn, and featuring an all-baroque week on period instruments, with works of deep mystery and intensity of expression by Bach; Biber; and Marin Marais. Music to share, as a family, then take with us into our lives as we care for each other, care for the world.