Palaver Strings: What Travels

About this event

“What Travels” explores the ways memory and knowledge are carried across generations – not only through families, but through music itself.

Jessie Montgomery’s Source Code traces musical lineages and inherited ideas, showing how fragments of the past help shape new creation. Flowing directly into Osvaldo Golijov’s Tenebrae, the music takes us to a place of grief, stillness, and remembrance.

Continuing with Diego Vega Desenne’s Diaspora, our view expands outward to explore themes of migration, displacement, and resilience through the musical traditions of Latin America. Together, these three works consider what endures as people move, traditions evolve, and what travels across borders and through time. In the end, What Travels affirms that music itself is one of humanity’s most enduring forms of memory.

Montgomery Source Code

Golijov Tenebrae

Desenne Diaspora

Sunday, December 6 at 3:00 pm

Brattleboro Music Center

Tickets: General Admission

$20 In Advance, $25 at the Door