The authors repeatedly deconstructed beliefs that so many C-suite folks have held sacred for years.
My hope for the next 10 years is that we would eventually have a building that could house not only our education programs, but also end-of-life suites for folks who are dying, that we could use our students as volunteers in the end-of-life suites, and that we are able to get doctors, clinicians, social workers to rotate through our organization as part of their learning.
But Gerald Barry's No Other People, being played for the first time in Britain, predictably proved unpredictable, taking its title from a poem by the proto-surrealist Raymond Roussel, combining nervously excitable string lines and rampaging brass in raw, muscular counterpoint and threatening to morph into a suite of folk-song arrangements halfway through.
The album veers from honky-tonk blowouts to intimate suites of folk rock, yet beneath the lyrical country breezes and easygoing pedal steel lies a streak of doubt and self-recrimination.
This suite, based on folk styles, was choreographed by David Abilio, the troupe's general director, and presented the dancers, singers and percussionists in a festive mood.
| Sept. 2 at 3: Works by Grieg and Schumann (the Piano Quintet, with Yuja Wang) along with a suite of Chinese folk-song arrangements by Yi-Wen Jiang, the group's second violinist.
His transcription of Mr. Pärt's meditative "Für Alina," originally for piano, had an appealing suppleness, as did Per-Olof Johnson's "Wermelandiana," a tuneful, varied suite of Swedish folk songs.
Benjamin Britten's Suite on English Folk Tunes was his last orchestral work, and in its extraction of maximum effect from minimal means it displays the hand of the master.
But why begin the entire festival with his "Country Dances," a rather conventional suite of British folk tunes arranged for cello and piano, performed by Mr. Sherry with the composer at the piano?
Yet Bellamy's ballad opera was always more about the ballads than an opera per se – and for its 40th anniversary the new generation has expanded the piece into a fully staged, theatrical folk suite of extraordinary richness and variety.
CHIARA STRING QUARTET A dynamic young quartet, actively engaged with music old and new, offers a pair of informal "club concerts" this week; its rangy program features not only quartets by Bartók and Beethoven but also a suite of Andean folk tunes and several transcriptions of songs by Prince.
