“The program opens with Strum by 2024 GRAMMY-winning composer, violinist and educator Jessie Montgomery, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s current Mead Composer-in-Residence, who has been affiliated with the Sphinx Organization since…
“I love Jessie Montgomery’s “Strum” because I can find myself in it. The way it searches and shifts, changing colors and textures; the way the second violin and viola join…
“On “Strum” (2006), which opens with an instantly unforgettable plucked violin part, their 20 rhythmic strings filled every corner and cranny of the Sheldon. In this intimate setting with such…
