In today's fast-paced digital age, listening to live classical music and reading are both becoming increasingly infrequent practices in our lives, fading from the modern focus. In presenting performances of chamber music in tandem with discussions of literature through accessible in-person demonstrations, we hope to show people precisely how our engagement with these art forms strengthens and preserves our humanity. Libraries, and literary spaces at large, are a sacred space for local communities. In the spirit of breaking barriers to learning, our goal here is two-fold:

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1) bringing this extraordinary music to existing local communities by giving them a window into the musical language

2) bringing musicians and artists into literary spaces to help preserve them for future generations. 

Metaphor and analogy are some of the most effective ways that we can observe this continuity of thought and emotion throughout the course of human history, and across divisions of genre. The most fascinating inquiry, and our most pertinent connections, happen in that moment of dialogue between multiple works of art. In searching for the rhetorical significance of a work’s construction, we can begin to understand why it ought to endure—beyond the simple truth of its capacity to move people. We continue to play Classical Music and read literature not only because they abstractly move us, but because they also offer insights about the human condition, sentiments that ring true centuries later, reimagined in each successive translation. The goal is, of course, never to prescribe or impose one interpretation onto the listener, or even to suggest that the composer wrote with these ideas in mind—great art needs no explanation or justification. All we can do as artists is to offer one possible reading of these works that serves as an entry point for audiences into genres that are unfamiliar to them.