FSQ at USU 2025-26 Series: The Crossing Point

Listening to the Living World
with guest Thomas Glenn, tenor

Program:
Laura Kaminsky | Arboreal
Gabriela Lena Frank | A Psalm of Disquiet
Aakash Mittal | Living Memory | Sundarbans (World Premiere)
Akshaya Tucker | Night Fire
Nicolás Lell Benavides | Lek

This concert is the sonic equivalent of an exhibition—an eco-musical retrospective of the Fry Street Quartet’s long-term engagement with environmental themes. These works emerge from years of relationship-building, commissions, and co-creations with composers who are not just crafting music, but responding to a world in flux.

This program gathers voices shaped by fire, forest, flood, extinction, displacement, and resilience. From Kaminsky’s arboreal tribute to the rooted world, to Aakash Mittal’s musical witness to the climate crisis in the Sundarbans, each piece becomes a listening practice, a prayer, a provocation.

Gabriela Lena Frank’s Psalm of Disquiet holds the spiritual paradox at the center of this moment—hope without denial, lament without despair.

Akshaya Tucker and Nicolás Benavides bring voice to human and more-than-human loss alike.

This music asks:
What do we owe to the places we love?
How do we listen to a world unraveling?
And what might music make possible—even now?

When

Monday, November 03, 2025 | 7:30 pm

Where

Russell/Wanlass Performance Hall

Event Type

Arts/Entertainment

Department

Music

Target Audience

Students,Alumni,Faculty,Staff,General Public,Parents,Prospective Students

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Free for USU Faculty, Students, and Staff. $18 for General Public

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