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MUSIC: Pas de Deux – 

This virtuosic and programmatic single-movement work is a portrait of an evolving partnership beginning with youthful exuberance, passing through rumination on loss, and culminating in a state of complex yearning: the desire to make ephemeral love timeless and permanent.

Tommy Mesa and Yoon Lee featuring Joel P. Friedman’s Pas de Deux

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Date(s) - 01/19/2025
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

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The Phillips Collection

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Cuban-American cellist Tommy Mesa, who in 2023 received the Sphinx Organization’s Medal of Excellence, its highest honor, has appeared as soloist at the Supreme Court of the United States and with major orchestras including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, and Philadelphia Orchestra.Yoon Lee, special-prize winner of the International Anton Rubinstein Piano Competition, has performed through the United States, Europe, and Asia, and is a specialist in music for piano and strings. At the Phillips, they bring a program formed around Joel P. Friedman’s Pas de Deux, a piece initially commissioned to celebrate a joyful relationship but revised and expanded after the tragic events of September 11, and Claude Debussy’s Cello Sonata in D minor.

Concert Program

Jules Massenet (1842-1912): Méditation from Thaïs

Joel Philip Friedman (b. 1960): Pas de Deux*

  1. Prologue
  2.  Youth
  3. The Limits of Life: a. Dialogue, b. How Time Ends
  4. Pas de Deux

*this work is one movement divided into four sections

INTERMISSION

Claude Debussy (1862-1918): Sonate pour violoncelle et piano

  1. Prologue: Lent, sostenuto e molto risoluto
  2. Sérénade: Modérément animé
  3. Finale: Animé, léger et nerveux

Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979): Trois Pièces for Cello and Piano

  1. Modéré
  2. Sans vitesse et a l’aise
  3. Vite et nerveusement rythmé

Presented by The Phillips Collection