Hemenway Strings: Unbowed, Unbroken

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Sunday / September 28, 2025 / 3:00 p.m.

Seully Hall

8 Fenway, Floor 4

Boston

02215

United States

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Hemenway Strings performs music by Pärt, Shostakovich, Simon, and Strauss, composed in response to oppression and authoritarianism.

Program Information

Repertoire

ARVO PÄRT: Fratres (1977)

CARLOS SIMON: An Elegy: A Cry from the Grave (2016)

DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH / RUDOLPH BARSHAI: Chamber Symphony, op. 110a (from Quartet No. 8, 1960)
IV. Largo
V. Largo

DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH / DMITRY SITKOVETSKY: String Symphony, op. 73 (from Quartet No. 3, 1946)
III. Allegro non troppo

—INTERMISSION—

RICHARD STRAUSS: Metamorphosen (1945)

Ensemble

Conductor
Lynn Chang

Violin I
Lynn Chang^
Youngmi Hwang, GPD '26
Jocelyn Wang, MM '26
Acadia Kunkel, BM '28
Isabella Yee, BM '26
Joshua Rosenthal, BM '26
Rose Barranco, BM '25
Clara Frantzen, BM '29
Adrian Atonya, BM '26

Violin II
Anna Vittoria Furlanetto, GPD '26
Jocelyn Wang, MM '26
Clara Frantzen, BM '29
Isabella Yee, BM '26
Adrian Atonya, BM '26
Joshua Rosenthal, BM '26
Rose Barranco, BM '25

Viola
Emily Tardiff-Rodriguez, MM '26
Changhyun Paek, GPD '25
Lydia Tan, BM '27
Katy Rose Bennett, MM '26

Cello
Will Rawlinson, BM '27
Adam Broce, MM '26
Ethan Lee, BM '27
Milla Chitwood, BM '27

Bass
Gabriel de los Reyes, BM '27

Percussion
Lily Cooper BM '28
Amy Weyand BM '28

^ BCB faculty member
Assistant Director, Concert Services – Luis Herrera
Coordinator, Concert Services – Matthew Carey
Concert Production Manager – Kendall Floyd
Performance Technology Technicians – Sara Pagiaro, Goran Daskalov
Performance Technology Specialist – Andrei Radu

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