Heart Strings: The Most Beautiful Music in the World
When:
Friday, Feb 12, 2027 7:30p -
9:30p
Friday, Feb 12, 2027 7:30p -
9:30p
Where:
NEC's Jordan Hall
30 Gainsborough St.
Boston, MA 02115
Admission:
$varies
Hosted by:
Categories:
Date Idea, Music, Seasonal
Event website:
https://www.afarcry.org/all-concerts/heart-strings-20
Featuring Boston Poet Laureate Emmanuel Oppong-Yeboah
For this year’s Heart Strings, A Far Cry’s most sentimental curator, Rafael Popper-Keizer, invites audiences into an evening of unabashedly gorgeous music for strings and harp: music of tenderness, longing, melancholy, devotion, and transcendent beauty.
Curated by Rafael Popper-Keizer
Musical Program:
Johann Pachelbel: Canon in D Major
Elfrida Andree: Andante quasi recitativo
George Walker: Lyric for Strings
Fikret Amirov: Symphony for String Orchestra, mvt. 1
Arnold Schoenberg: Notturno for string orchestra and harp
Gerald Finzi: Prelude for String Orchestra in F minor Op. 25
Pēteris Vasks: Vientulais Enģelis for solo violin and string orchestra
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor; mvt. 4 Adagietto
From the familiar warmth of Pachelbel’s Canon in D to the aching serenity of Mahler’s Adagietto, the program gathers luminous works that tug unapologetically at the heartstrings.
Along the way, George Walker’s deeply moving Lyric for Strings mourns and remembers; Pēteris Vasks’ Lonely Angel offers balm for an aching world; and Schoenberg’s lush Notturno shimmers with late-night romance and intimacy. Interwoven throughout the evening will be poetry read live by Boston Poet Laureate Emmanuel Oppong-Yeboah, entering into dialogue with the music to paint a picture of the beauty found through love.
Following the performance, audiences are invited to continue the evening over bubbly, sweets, and conversation in celebration of Valentines Day.
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