“Da Capo'' is the story of how two young people from diaspora populations navigate complex personal identities, find kinship within each other, and continue to nurture an ever growing and changing relationship with homecoming through the power of music, art, and community. Featuring works by Ho, Ramnath, Baker, Kats-Chernin, Hisaishi, Beethoven, and Fauré.
Experiencing this music is about exploring what home means for each of us individually, and allowing ourselves to be moved collectively by that feeling. By the nostalgia, the joy and the pain, love and grief, happiness and sadness. Everything. Allowing us to notice and remember again what we miss, where we want to be, how beautiful that all is. Even if we don’t find the answers, even if we cannot return to that place, or if home was never a safe place to begin with … we can still all bond over this deep longing for home. That in itself is more than plenty.
If we can imagine it, we can create it. Even if only in fractured pieces, in moments, even if just here together during this hour of musical utopia, we can grow towards the values and principles of home. Of kindness. Of simply existing together. Company, community, kinship.
Music allows us
to remember a feeling,
and to feel that feeling.
So, hello everyone, hello home.
Nice to hear you, nice to feel you, nice to remember you, again.
Program:
Part I “Finding Ourselves”
Elena Kats-Chernin - Eliza’s Aria
Ludwig van Beethoven - Violin Sonata No.1 in D Major, Op.12 No.1
I. Allegro con brio
Alice Ho - Four Seasons “Spring” and “Summer”
Kala Ramnath - Aalap and Tarana
Part II “Finding Each Other, Again”
Joe Hisaishi/Wesley Chu - Legend of Ashitaka from Princess Mononoke
David Baker - Blues (Deliver My Soul)
Earl Wild/George Gershwin - Embraceable You
Part III “Coming Home”
Gabriel Fauré - Violin Sonata in A major, Op. 13
I. Allegro molto
II. Andante
III. Scherzo: Allegro vivo
IV. Finale: Allegro quasi presto
Tong Wang and Maitreyi Muralidharan first met as bunk mates at the Brevard Music Festival in 2012, and promptly lost contact, watching and supporting each other’s life journeys from afar. 10 years after, they rekindled their friendship in Montreal, where they decided to work together as part of Trio Eudaemonia. Their similar approaches to music and art as a window into a beautiful world of connection, passion for food and community building, and love of working together sparked the beginnings of Duo Perdendosi. Both coming from conservatory backgrounds, they recognized a need for classical and contemporary music to move away from convention and towards connection. In 2022, they created the Windwood Music Festival to collaborate with like-minded artists and share the power of music to connect land and people. Maitreyi and Tong will embark on their first tour, “Da Capo,” in April 2023, participate in a residency at the Lunenburg Academy of Music Performance in June, and return to Airdrie, Alberta to lead the first official season of the Windwood Music Festival from August 13-27. Outside of performing, they enjoy cooking, writing, and each other’s company.
April 2, 2023 @ 2PM
Cedar House Concert
Montréal, QC H3G 1A4
RSVP via email: duoperdendosi@gmail.com
April 3, 2023 @ 8PM
Kin Musique
397 Saint-Catherine St W
Montreal, QC H3B 1A4
April 5, 2023 @ 8PM
Canadian Music Center Chalmers Performance Space
20 Saint Joseph Street
Toronto, ON M4Y 1J9
April 6, 2023 @ 8PM
Southminister United Church
15 Aylmer Avenue
Ottawa, ON, K1S 2W8
April 7, 2023 @ 8PM
House Concert by Bill Jin
Ottawa, ON
April 11, 2023 @ 8PM
New York Estonian House
243 East 34th Street
New York, NY 10016
April 13, 2023 @ 8PM
Music Mansion
88 Meeting Street
Providence, RI 02906
April 15, 2023 @ 8PM
House Concert by Raghu Srinivasan and Heather Turnbow
Private Venue
Washington, DC
April 21, 2023 @ 8PM
Cary School of Music
201 West Chatham Street
Cary, NC 27511