What can I know?

Three perspectives on life, love, the universe, and our place in it. 

We present the world premiere of Sebastian Currier's Mysterium, a work in which the vastness of the universe and the intimacy of our lives converge. Dutch physicist Robbert Dijkgraaf ponders the wonder and randomness of the universe's existence as his wife, author Pia de Jong, contemplates the randomness of their meeting and its life-altering results. 

I remember you told me how randomness created the universe. How strange. 

If chance hadn’t brought us together, I wouldn’t be holding this photograph of us, 

framed in the past. 

Probe heat map of temperature fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background.

Also on the program, the North American premiere of Linda Catlin Smith's Folio, a mesmerizing setting of poetry fragments by Emily Dickinson – left unfinished, as if waiting for music to complete them. Folio also considers the mysterious role of love in our lives, as do movements of Robert Convery's VOYAGES, based on Hart Crane's iconic poem cycle capturing the stages of an exhilarating, doomed relationship in metaphors of the sea. 

What can I know?

All in the amazing acoustic of our home, the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill. 

On a chilly Friday evening, randomly, in February. 

WHAT CAN I KNOW?

Sebastian Currier's Mysterium (World premiere)

Linda Catlin Smith's Folio (North American premiere)

and three movements of Robert Convery's VOYAGES

Friday, February 7 @ 7pm

The Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill



pre-concert talk with Sebastian & Donald in the Chapel @ 6pm

And don't miss us three days earlier as we bring and sing David Lang's poor hymnal to Princeton. McCarter Theatre presents The Crossing for the first time – at Richardson Auditorium on the campus of Princeton University. 

poor hymnal: a work that has quickly become a signature piece, in a venue we love.

The Crossing @ Princeton

presented by McCarter Theatre Center

David Lang's poor hymnal

Tuesday, February 4 @ 7.30pm

Richardson Auditorium, Princeton University

Season artwork by Rita Quattrocchi.

Nine-year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe heat map of temperature fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background, a phenomenon explored by Currier in Mysterium. (NASA / WMAP Science Team).

Photograph by Charles Grove.