Ensemble 20/21: Music of Change

Ensemble 20/21 explores critical political and social ideas with “Music of Change.” The program features flutist and composer  Valerie Coleman’s evocative musical memoir of Josephine Baker for wind quintet, Portraits of Josephine,  Philip Maneval’s brass quartet, How We Prevail, a moving meditation on the political turmoil of our time. The program continues with  Louis Andriessen’s unrelenting 1975 open-scored work for an unspecified (yet loud) group of instruments, Worker’s Union. Highly regarded Jamaican-British composer and pianist Eleanor Alberga’s remarkable Sun Warrior evokes bright colors throughout three emotionally stirring movements to conclude the concert.