The Missoula Chamber Music Collective presents Dreams of Winterreise, a concert featuring works inspired by Schubert's beloved masterpiece. Conceived as a journey into the cold of winter, Franz Schubert's Winterreise sets to music a selection of poems by Wilhelm Müller: Seventy-Seven Poems from the Posthumous Papers of a Travelling Horn-Player. Fluidly drifting between the world of dreams and bitter reality, the wanderer is heard in conversation with their own heart, by turns reflective, questioning, ironic, and finally resigned. Schubert’s achievement in setting these poems is to give musical life to the wanderer's symbolic companions - the sun, wind, trees and leaves, flowers, rivers and snow, crows and ravens - not only in the contours of the singer’s melody, but especially in the pictorial vividness of the piano score.

Concert Program:
Selections from Winterreise by Franz Schubert
Selections from Winterreise by Jay Schwartz
Selections from December Songs by Maury Yeston

Performed by:
Caitlin Cisler (soprano)

Jan Halmes (piano)

Jesse Dochnahl, Johan Eriksson, Brooke Florence, Owen Kirby, Lewis Nelson, and Jared Supola (saxophones)