10.17.26 | TEXTURES

Saturday, October 17, 2026 at 8 pm
Thomas Tull Concert Hall at MIT

MARY KOUYOUMDJIAN – Studies on Rage for Each Day of the Week for flute, bassoon and piano (2025)
JONATHAN RUSSELL – Quintet for Clarinet and Strings (2026) EAST COAST PREMIERE, RADIUS CO-COMMISSION
CAROLINE SHAW – Limestone and Felt for viola and cello (2012)
FRANCIS POULENC – Sextet for piano and winds (1932)

“The world has gone bananas,” says Armenian-American composer Mary Kouyoumdjian. Her response? Studies on Rage for Each Day of the Week for flute, bassoon and piano, a looping, cacophonous work that opens Textures, the first concert of Radius Ensemble’s 28th Season. Next is the East Coast premiere of a Radius co-commission by Jonathan Russell, his Quintet for clarinet and strings. Limestone and Felt, a duo for viola and cello by Pulitzer Prize-winner Caroline Shaw, presents a clash of textures exploring, as Shaw says, the “opposing ways we experience history and design our own present.” Francis Poulenc’s raucous Sextet for piano and winds brings the concert to a joyful close.

Pictured: Mary Kouyoumdjian (Alik Barsoumian); Jonathan Russell (Molly Decoudreaux); Caroline Shaw (Piotr Redlinski); Francis Poulenc.

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