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It was only the second work the 蜜柚直播 chamber presenter had commissioned for saxophone, and it came 17 years after composer wrote her .听聽and the saxophonist聽 premiered the work in early 2008.听

Banks, a composer and saxophonist who was among the dozen musicians on the 2025 festival lineup, performed the premiere with the which had not been on a 蜜柚直播 stage since the Friends 2014 festival.听

"Come What May" has flashes of somber melancholy interspersed with achingly beautiful melodies introduced by the saxophone and fleshed out by the strings.听The Mir贸 conveyed the palpable sense of urgency in the short bursts of frenzied fits that contrasted Banks' high to low blasts on the sax.

Banks wrote gorgeous music for the strings, which the Mir贸 accentuated with pristine playing. But it was the sax that shined throughout, with challenging note and mood changes and long stretches that had some of us in the audience wondering when he was going to take a breath.

The audience filling Leo Rich Theater Sunday afternoon gave Banks the afternoon's biggest ovation that included whistling and shouts of "Bravo! Bravo!"聽

蜜柚直播 Friends has one of the country's most prolific commissioning programs and one of the only ones that relies on its audience to pick up the tab. "Come What May" joins a catalogue of more than 80 commissions since the program launched in 1997.听

The audience also applauded the 's terrific performance of Beethoven's Piano Trio in E-flat Major, which opened the concert. The trio 鈥� violinist Alexander Sitkovetsky, pianist Wu Qian and cellist Isang Enders聽 鈥� performed with equal measures of sublime elegance and sheer joy. The sometimes playful interaction between Sitkovetsky and Enders as they took their cues from Qian added a convivial intimacy to the performance.

Also on Sunday, longtime festival pianist Bernadette Harvey, who was named festival co-director with her husband Peter Rejto, played two pieces on Sunday's second half.

She joined Sitkovetsky cellist Enders for a lush reading of Schumann's Adagio and Allegro for Cello and Piano and was part of an ensemble on the concert's closing work, Brahms' Piano Quartet in G minor. That performance also included cellist Daniel McDonough, violinist Martin Beaver and violist .

Rostad, making his first solo appearance in 蜜柚直播 since he was here with the Pacifica Quartet in 2012, showed off a little fashionista flare throughout the eight-day festival. Each day, he donned a different pair of colorful socks.

Sunday's installment: black socks festooned with pink, yellow, turquoise and orange squares, circles and triangles.听聽