Rectitude

The Crossing @ Stanford University
Harold Meltzer’s You Are Who I Love (2024, reprise)
w/ Sandbox Percussion
w/ works of Ēriks Ešenvalds and Sarah Rimkus

Wednesday, February 25 @ 7:30pm

Bing Concert Hall, Stanford University

Harold Meltzer’s collaboration with poet (and Stanford faculty) Aracelis Girmay, You Are Who I Love, produced one of his largest and most thoughtful works. With the four percussionists of Sandbox playing over 100 instruments, the work floats with ease from humor to defiance, intimacy to insistence. Harold, who died in August 2024, left us a lasting gift to remind us of the value of hearing the unheard, seeing the unseen, and living a day, an hour, or just a moment in the life of another. 

Books. Rice. Tomatoes. Crossing the Desert. 

The performance of You Are Who I Love was made possible through generous gifts from a wide circle of friends to the Harold Meltzer Memorial Recording Fund. 

You Are Who I Love was commissioned for The Crossing and Donald Nally by Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting.