Chamber music has a way of changing the room.

At Postmark Center for the Arts, the audience sits close enough to feel the music pass between the players: flute, viola, and harp answering one another in colors that shimmer, soften, and shift. French Impressions & Beyond offers an evening shaped by atmosphere rather than spectacle, where the smallest musical gestures have space to speak.

At the center is Debussy’s Sonata for flute, viola, and harp, a work that seems to float between light and shadow. The unusual combination of instruments gives the music its own delicate world: the breath of the flute, the warmth of the viola, and the glow of the harp. Fauré’s Dolly Suite brings a more playful and tender spirit, full of charm, grace, and melodic ease.

The program then moves beyond France into music touched by reflection and dusk. Arnold Bax’s Elegiac Trio offers a more introspective voice, while Arthur Foote’s At Dusk closes the evening with the feeling of light fading gently from the sky.

Featuring Auburn Symphony Principal Flute Wendy Wilhelmi, violist Leslie Faye Johnson, and Auburn Symphony Principal Harpist John Carrington, French Impressions & Beyond is an invitation into a more personal kind of listening: elegant, intimate, and full of quiet color.

Program

Claude DEBUSSY – Sonata for flute, viola and harp
Arnold BAX – Elegiac Trio
Gabriel FAURÉ – Doily Suite En Trio, Op. 56
Arthur FOOTE – At Dusk

Musicians

Wendy Wilhelmi, flute
Leslie Faye Johnson, viola
John Carrington, harp