Dear Friends of Left Coast,

Coming up on June 1 is Left Coast's final subscription concert of our season. Since we anticipate continued restrictions on congregating we are preparing to broadcast the concert to our audience online, either from the concert hall or our homes. One way or the other, we look forward to playing some remarkable music for you in about six weeks!

In the interest of health and safety, the musicians scheduled to play this concert have curated an updated program of solos and duets we can practice and rehearse at home. I'm excited about Sheltering Music, pieces picked for you by Stacey Pelinka, Phyllis Kamrin, Jerome Simas, Eric Zivian, Michel Taddei, Leighton Fong, and Loren Mach:

Beethoven's rarely performed Piano Sonata, Op. 78, chosen by Eric for its succinct beauty
Avian music: Peteris Vasks' Landscape with Birds, for flute, and Schumann's Bird as Prophet, for piano
Cloisonné a film accompanied by mesmerizing double bass music by Veronika Krausas
Selections from Diaphonic Suite by Ruth Crawford Seeger and a baroque work by Michel Blavet that Stacey describes as "simple and haunting"
Leighton and I are finally getting to play some of Jörg Widmann's tiny duos for violin and cello. We have wanted to work on these for years — they are incredibly fun and full of character, also full of surprises.
Elliott Carter's brief and picturesque Steep Steps for bass clarinet
Plus more music for viola, and percussion!

I hope you'll join us for Sheltering Music. We'll keep you updated about how to tune in. Meanwhile, please enjoy this Left Coast recording, a delicious morsel of night music from 1911, Lilli Boulanger's Nocturne.

With best regards,

Anna