Love Untamed

Concert Broadcast Premiere:
Saturday, October 25, 2025 at 5:00PM
Zilkha Hall, The Hobby Center for the Performing Arts

Love Untamed explores deeply felt emotions with a Haydn solo cantata and a song cycle by Houston’s own David Ashley White. Haydn’s Arianna a Naxos treats the legend of Ariadne, whose abandonment by Theseus elicits a torrent of feelings, from despair to wrath. In contrast, White’s contemporary song cycle, set to poetry of Wendell Berry, finds balm for the troubled soul in the natural world. Surrounding these stormy narratives are spirited instrumental works in a more peaceful mode, by G. P. Telemann and Vittorio Rieti.

Featured artists:
Erin Wagner, mezzo-soprano
Colin St-Martin, traverso
Elizabeth Blumenstock, violin
Barrett Sills, cello