RITZ CHAMBER PLAYERS | EXPANDING THE LEGACY

Winds, strings, Coleridge-Taylor, an RCP commission, and a world premiere mark the concert closest to the 25th anniversary of RCP’s founding EXPANDING THE LEGACY The Silver Jubilee World Premiere Just two days before the twenty-fifth anniversary of RCP’s founding, Expanding the Legacy celebrates a musical inheritance that reaches across generations — and an institution determined to keep adding to it. The winds take center stage in a program that moves from Courtney Bryan’s contemporary voice and the wit of Strauss to Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s extraordinary Nonet in F minor, an ambitious chamber work whose nearly orchestral palette feels remarkably modern more than a century later. After intermission, the story becomes distinctly RCP: James Lee III’s Night Visions of Kippur leads to the world premiere of the Silver Jubilee Commission, created to carry this legacy forward. Because legacy is not simply what we preserve. It is what we make possible next. PROGRAM Courtney Bryan (b. 1982) · Blooming · for wind quintet Richard Strauss (1864–1949) / arr. Franz Hasenöhrl (1885–1970) · Till Eulenspiegel — einmal anders! · for violin, clarinet, horn, bassoon, and double bass Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875–1912) · Nonet in F minor, Op. 2 · for oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, violin, viola, cello, double bass, and piano James Lee III (b. 1975) · Night Visions of Kippur · for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano RCP Commission WORLD PREMIERE The Silver Jubilee Commission Composer and instrumentation to be announced