An intimate evening of song and chamber music exploring the enduring nature of love, friendship, and human connection.
On April 15 at Rough Point in Newport, soprano Katharine Dain, violist Caitlin Lynch, and pianist Ieva Jokubaviciute weave a richly layered program inspired by Reena Esmail’s This Love Between Us, a meditation on our shared humanity and the bonds that sustain us through time. Drawing on music by Brahms, Robert and Clara Schumann, Schubert, Bridge, Lanzilotti, and Esmail, the program moves from motherly tenderness to amorous dialogue, from the ache of separation to the “ray of eternal love” that persists even in loss.
Across the evening, listeners will encounter Brahms’ Sacred Lullaby, Bridge’s Three Songs, Clara Schumann’s Six Lieder, Robert Schumann’s Adagio and Allegro, Schubert’s Shepherd on the Rock, Lanzilotti’s of moments, and Esmail’s This Love Between Us, set to texts by Kabir, Friedrich Rückert, Heinrich Heine, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Wilhelm Müller. These works, each in its own way, reveal love as joyful, yearning, fragile, and resilient—“joyful, enduring, always.”
Hosted in the atmospheric setting of Rough Point, the evening includes a complimentary wine service by Bow Bar and small bites, all included in the 75$ ticket price. Doors open at 6:30 pm, the concert begins at 7:00 pm, includes an intermission, and concludes at 9:00 pm.