The Cultural Caravan Presents: Letters to My Daughters (World Premiere)
Fri, Jun 13
|Mountain View United Methodist Church
Performed by cellist Josh Halpern and pianist Minyoung Kang, the world premiere of Letters to My Daughters is an intimate evening of music and meaning—rooted in uncertainty, and in the enduring hope that art can speak across generations.
Time & Location
Jun 13, 2025, 7:00 p.m.
Mountain View United Methodist Church, 355 Ponca Pl, Boulder, CO 80303, USA
About the event
Claude Debussy: Cello Sonata in D minor
This piece was composed and published in 1915 at the outset of World War I—in many ways the "big bang" of the interweaving of the unsettling of the global social order into 20th century composition. This piece has all the vibrancy and energy of that optimistic turn-of-the-century moment, as well as an intimate lamentation of the new interconnected scale of violence that this era brought with it.
Leonard Bernstein: Three Meditations from Mass
Leonard Bernstein’s Three Meditations from Mass are wordless reflections drawn from a theatrical ritual that unravels under the weight of doubt, dissent, and disillusionment. Emerging from the moment Communion collapses, the third Meditation captures a painful inward search for meaning and peace—music that traces the fragile path from spiritual fracture to the hope of renewal. Bernstein wrote: "At the climax of Communion, the Mass is shattered, and it remains for…