Sounds of the Sublime

Every Friday, February 13 – March 27, 12 p.m.

Excluding March 13

About:

We invite you to join us in harmony with The Slow Sublime by attending our recurring Sounds of the Sublime series, which surrounds visitors with gentle, atmospheric music designed to slow the senses, expand perception, and deepen the encounter with the sublime.

Join us for one session, or all of them! Everyone is welcome.

Schedule:

DATENAMEPERFORMANCE
February 13, 2026Thomas ChandlerFeaturing works by Phillip Houghton, Viktor Kozlov, Carlo Domeniconi, and Andrew York, the performances will culminate in an improvisation for Shruti box and guitar, merging diverse timbres to create an evocative and atmospheric sound world.
February 20, 2026Bill Flack and Michael HickeyMusicians Bill Flack and Michael Hickey will perform a guitar-focused duet featuring instrumental and classical jazz, offering listeners a relaxing, melodic experience.
February 27, 2026Frank LakatosGeorg Philipp Telemann – Twelve Fantasies for Solo Violin (1735) 
Telemann’s Twelve Fantasies for Solo Violin form a vivid gallery of miniature musical scenes, each blending Baroque elegance with surprising imaginative freedom. Written without accompaniment, the fantasies ask the violin to act as its own ensemble—shaping melodies, harmonies, and implied counterpoint through a single expressive line. Telemann draws on Italian virtuosity, French dance style, and German counterpoint to create twelve contrasting tableaux that move between playfulness, introspection, and brilliance. 
March 6, 2026Thomas ChandlerFeaturing works by Phillip Houghton, Viktor Kozlov, Carlo Domeniconi, and Andrew York, the performances will culminate in an improvisation for Shruti box and guitar, merging diverse timbres to create an evocative and atmospheric sound world.
March 20, 2026Bill Flack and Michael HickeyMusicians Bill Flack and Michael Hickey will perform a guitar-focused duet featuring instrumental and classical jazz, offering listeners a relaxing, melodic experience.
March 27, 2026Frank Lakatos J.S. Bach – Works for Solo Viola (after the Cello Suites and the Partita in D Minor) 
This program brings together three of Bach’s most profound solo works—Suite No. 2, the Chaconne from the Partita in D Minor, and Suite No. 3—heard here in the rich, resonant voice of the viola. Suite No. 2 explores a world of inward reflection and expressive subtlety, its dance movements unfolding with a poised, understated beauty. The monumental Chaconne, a vast set of variations built over a repeating bass line, stands as one of Bach’s most awe-inspiring creations: a journey through grief, revelation, and transcendence that transforms the instrument into an entire orchestra of voices. Suite No. 3 offers a luminous counterpart, full of buoyant rhythms and expansive gestures that radiate vitality.