MASTERS SERIES | In Your Arms at Last

ENCORE Chamber Music Institute presents In Your Arms at Last, an evening exploring the deep human longing to return to love and safety. The program opens with Richard Wagner’s tender Siegfried Idyll, unfolding like a private love letter filled with domestic warmth. Songs of devotion follow, including Ludwig van Beethoven’s Zärtliche Liebe and Robert Schumann’s ecstatic Widmung, expressing love in its most direct form. The evening culminates in Richard Strauss’s Metamorphosen, tracing a profound path from private tenderness to a broader spiritual transformation, reminding us that home is found in the arms of the beloved.