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Pairing brilliance with poignancy, this concert features two quintessential chamber works by two prolific composers that were each written within the span of less than three months. 

“But let me tell you, you are not acquainted with love, although you say you feel it strongly. That’s not the rage, the fury, the delirium which takes possession of all our faculties and makes us capable of anything.”

– Hector Berlioz

Angry’s Black Athena~Power was commissioned and premiered by Jonathan McPhee and the Lexington Symphony in 2022. Like many musicians, McPhee wanted to work on a project as a response to the heightened awareness of racial injustice as well as contribute to increasing diversity in orchestral literature.