Musical Salon Series: This Love Between Us

We are excited to partner with Puddingstone Festival on an evening of music at Rough Point! Our founder Doris Duke was a supporter of the arts, as well as a musician, a dancer, and an art collector. We are delighted to host this evening celebrating the performing arts in her home.

On April 15th, join us for an intimate evening of song and chamber music exploring the enduring nature of love, friendship, and human connection. Soprano Katharine Dain, violist Caitlin Lynch, and pianist Ieva Jokubaviciute weave a richly layered program inspired by Reena Esmail’s This Love Between Us, a meditation on our shared humanity and the bonds that sustain us through time. Drawing on music by Brahms, Robert and Clara Schumann, Schubert, Bridge, Lanzilotti, and Esmail, the program moves from motherly tenderness to amorous dialogue, from the ache of separation to the “ray of eternal love” that persists even in loss.

Across the evening, listeners will encounter Brahms’ Sacred Lullaby, Bridge’s Three Songs, Clara Schumann’s Six Lieder, Robert Schumann’s Adagio and Allegro, Schubert’s Shepherd on the Rock, Lanzilotti’s of moments, and Esmail’s This Love Between Us, set to texts by Kabir, Friedrich Rückert, Heinrich Heine, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Wilhelm Müller. These works, each in its own way, reveal love as joyful, yearning, fragile, and resilient—“joyful, enduring, always.”

This musical salon offers a hopeful meditation on connection, listening, and what binds us together.

The museum will be open to explore before the concert and during intermission, inviting guests to experience the art and the music in dialogue.

Doors open at 6:30 PM. The show begins at 7:00 PM and includes an intermission.

Small bites and a wine bar by Bow Bar are included. Purchase your tickets here.