This year’s installment of “Night of the Living Composers” showcases the imaginative expertise of our community’s finest musical talents.

Two of the evening’s works utilize the NMW String Quartet, which features the four local string players of the incredible Marea Ensemble:

Violinists Shannon D’Antonio and Samantha Bounkeua; violist, Rebecca Dulatre Corbin and cellist Kristin Garbeff.

In Ivan Rosenblum’s, "Aus hebräischen gesängen,” the composer draws from Robert Schumann's song of that title. "Rosenblum's treatment of the Schumann song is a metaphor for the atrocities of the Holocaust. It also evokes the historic transition from late Romantic music to the atonal experiments of the early 20th century to elucidate ironies and atrocities of that era."