It's About Love: Summer Small Ensemble

Erie, join us for the second in series of our Summer Small Ensembles! This month’s recital, “It’s About Love”, features Jonathan Moser on violin and Amber Shay Nicholson on piano.

As always, this event is free, while donations are gladly accepted!

Learn more about the performers and the program below. For those who wish to attend virtually, access the livestream here: https://bit.ly/PIPSummerRecital2

Jonathan says: “A Love that can unite” is the program’s theme. The two Romances that open the program are by an activist for women's rights and competence; the one that closes it is by a renowned pianist at the center of the most famous love triangle in music history. The program's centerpiece is Saris, an evocation of the goddess of love. By an Armenian-American composer, imitating the captivating sound he described as ‘like a heavenly saz (an Armenian instrument)’, it is included in memory of one of the world’s true humanitarian disasters, the massacre, deportation and kidnapping of thousands of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire in 1915-16, a triumph of ethnic and religious fear and hatred. Empowered by the beauty of the music of these composers, let us strive to put such enmity behind us and choose, instead, the love that unites us all as brothers and sisters.”