RITZ CHAMBER PLAYERS | EXPANDING BRIDGES

Black, Indigenous, Jewish, immigrant, and allied musical traditions meet in an evening of memory, migration, and survival. EXPANDING BRIDGES Music has the rare power to carry memory, identity, and lived experience across boundaries where words often fail. Expanding Bridges brings African American, Jewish, Indigenous, and immigrant traditions into conversation — not by erasing their differences, but by listening more deeply to what each carries. Carlos Simon’s Warmth from Other Suns evokes the movement and longing of the Great Migration, while Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate brings an Indigenous musical imagination into the chamber tradition. Prokofiev and Golijov open another window onto Jewish memory and diaspora, before Shostakovich’s powerful Eighth Quartet confronts memory, survival, and witness with devastating intensity. Different histories. Different voices. One stage large enough to hear them together. PROGRAM Carlos Simon (b. 1986) · Warmth from Other Suns · for string quartet Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate (b. 1968) · Pisachi (Reveal): Six Epitomes · for string quartet Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953) · Overture on Hebrew Themes, Op. 34 · for clarinet, string quartet, and piano Osvaldo Golijov (b. 1960) · Soprano chamber work to be confirmed · for soprano, clarinet, and string quartet Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975) · String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110 · for string quartet