Parlando: In This Short Life

SCHOENBERG  –  Chamber Symphony No. 1
TAKEMITSU  –  Rain Coming
BERIO  –  Beatles Songs
Songs from In This Short Life

Devony Smith, mezzo-soprano

After the catastrophe of World War I, much of classical music turned from Romantic emotionality to objectivity, structure, and cool intelligence. But was this cool intelligence sufficient in capturing the spectrum of 20th century emotion? Join Parlando as they trace that arc from Schoenberg's first explorations of serialism, through Takemitsu's luminous impressionism and Berio's tender reimagining of the Beatles, to art songs by David Lang, Will Liverman, and Jake Landau from In This Short Life, a meditation on love, life, and the ephemeral. Soprano Devony Smith joins Parlando for a program about what endures when the modern world strips everything else away.

2026-27 tickets go on sale in July.

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