Friday, February 27 and Friday, March 27, 2026 at 12:00 p.m.
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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.
Georg Philipp Telemann – Twelve Fantasies for Solo Violin (1735) – February 27, 2026
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.
J.S. Bach – Works for Solo Viola (after the Cello Suites and the Partita in D Minor) – March 27, 2026
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.