Join us for a lunchtime program of delightful music performed by the Rochester-based Telos Trio! Rita George Simmons, flute, Debbie Grohman, clarinet, and Dr. Willie La Favor, piano are known for their creatively programed, thematically-based chamber music. They bring us “InVerse,” a program of living composers inspired by poetry of William Wordsworth, Rabindranath Tagore, and Langston Hughes. Don’t miss this nationally recognized chamber trio as they play music that connects across cultures from India to Harlem!
Program: “InVerse”
Full Circle (2007) – Gwyneth Walker (b. 1947)
Wordsworth Miniatures (2003) – Edwin Roxburgh (b. 1937)
Based on a poem by William Wordsworth
Clarinet and Piano
Selections from Gitanjali Dances: Five Joys (2005) – Cary Ratcliff (b. 1953)
Each movement based on a poem by Rabindranath Tagore
‘The Joy that Sweeps in with the Tempest, shaking and waking all life with laughter’
‘This Little Reed of a flute thou has carried over hills and dales, and has breathed through it melodies eternally new’
‘The Joy that sets the twin brothers, life and death, dancing over the wide world’
Flute and Piano
Selections from Portraits of Langston (2007) – Valerie Coleman (b. 1970)
Each movement based on a poem by Langston Hughes
Le Grand Duc Mambo
Silver Rain
Harlem’s Summer Night
The Telos Trio, a finalist for the 2016 Chamber Music Performance professional division of The American Prize competition, is known for programming music that connects. We synthesize elements from diverse sources such as poetry, art, spirituality, and storytelling, into creative programs showcasing diverse musical styles. In 2017, Telos Trio collaborated with composer Gwyneth Walker to perform the world premiere of her composition “Equality Now!” and joined together with the National Women’s Rights Museum to present a musical celebration of “Equality Now!” for the centennial of New York State women’s suffrage. We have worked with photographers of Camera Rochester, the labyrinth facilitators from the Ontario Center Presbyterian Church, composer Frederick Boyle, whose composition “Glass Labyrinths” we premiered in 2016, and renowned storyteller Jay Stetzer. The musicians of the Telos Trio all teach at the Hochstein School of Music and Dance in Rochester, NY. We performed at the 2016 National Flute Association Convention and St. David’s Episcopal Church while on tour in San Diego, and as guest artists at Chautauqua Institution. We have also performed by invitation on Hochstein’s Spotlight on Faculty concert series, the Chapel Concerts by Candlelight series at Third Presbyterian Church in Rochester, the First Presbyterian Church Concert Series in Elmira, NY, the Schuyler County Concert Series in Watkins Glen, NY, the Morning Musicales concert series at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, NY, the George Eastman House Museum, and at the Rochester Memorial Art Gallery. We have been heard live on WXXI 91.5 Classical radio during the broadcast of Live from Hochstein, and Telos Trio performances have been broadcast on WCNY/FM 91.3 in Syracuse, NY. The Telos Trio performed most recently on the concert series of St. George’s Episcopal Church in Fredricksburg, Virginia. For more information, visit http://telostrio.com.