Despite its ebullient spirit, Mozart’s Piano Quartet in E-flat major was written when he was in desperate personal circumstances. Kevin Puts’s "And Legions Will Rise" is, in the composer’s words, “about the power in all of us to transcend during times of tragedy and personal crisis.” Rounding out the program is Mozart’s delightful A major flute quartet, and the world premiere of "The Lotos-Eaters," a BCM commission from pianist and composer Michael Stephen Brown. The work is inspired by Tennyson’s poem of the same name taken from a tale from Homer’s "Odyssey" about mariners who, once they taste of the lotos, forget their homes and live out their days in bliss.
