Music at Eden's Edge presents Music Speaks! Inside the Frame / By Special Arrangement

Designed to be listener-friendly, the Music Speaks! program is shaped around the idea that learning more is a pathway to hearing more in live classical performances. Partly a concert, partly an explanation, and partly a discussion, this series has appeal for listeners of all levels of experience.

Music at Eden’s Edge performers violinist Annie Rabbat and cellist Jacques Lee Wood explore what happens when you take a musical work (or 4!!) and rearrange them. By Special Arrangement is the second concert in MEE’s Music Speaks! Inside the Frame free lecture/performance series, and offers a unique opportunity to hear these virtuosic players free-range among works by Handel/Halvorsen, Boccherini, Robert Honstein and Villa-Lobos. In Jacques Lee Woods words, “The whole program is about conversation between the two instruments. Sometimes they listen to each other, sometimes, as with people, they do not! This describes Robert Honstein’s duo, Talking in Rounds. The performers will trace long-standing traditions which adapt music for new means: arrangements by the composers, arrangements by others, decades or centuries later. There are arrangements that closely resemble the original and others that take a theme and create variations using the harmonies and aesthetics of the times for which they are adapted. And sometimes, the end result is quite different from the original, as in the iconic Handel-Halvorsen Duo for violin and cello.“

MEE invites you to enjoy the verve of brilliant string playing in an unusual musical expedition.