World Premieres by David Garner and Elena Ruehr

David Garner's new songs to his song cycle for piano and voice, Phoenix (to texts by Ukrainian/ Romanian Rose Auslaender)+ Such Innocent Words, for soprano, cello, and piano, to texts by Holocaust survivor Yala Korwin;  

Elena Ruehr's jazzy new song cycle for the JMPP to three poems by Berkeley poet Marcia Falk: Winter Solstice Songs, for piano and soprano;

a brand new trio arrangement of "The Butterfly" by Ruth Lomon;

plus music by Czech and Hungarian composers Vitezslava Kapralova, Sandor Vandor, and Miklos Rozsa.