“In a home, lines are blurred,” Lawyer said. It’s a personal story that is perfectly suited for the homey, intimate setting of Rienzi, where guests will likely have already conjured up memories of their own. Fittingly, despite being a duet, there is frequently a third line of notes that they shift between playing, they explained, so that one or the other is performing two positions at once, signifying the balance of parental responsibilities in caring for the extra little voice in their lives. One of Clarke’s movements, on the other hand, is a lullaby that represents their lives more recently, settling in Minneapolis a few years ago and then welcoming their now-17-month-old son, Finn. Both have performed with ROCO for nearly a decade, a consistent part of their profession mirrored by the recurrent theme in “Rondo,” a movement in Beethoven’s “Duo No. “We’ll use the music as examples of how our own game of life together has taken its curious course around the country, but always with a constant, or leitmotif, of returning to Houston together,” the couple wrote in an email interview. The two met in 2004 in Houston, where they both lived until Cece moved to Miami two years later - what the couple describes as “the beginning of the big long-distance puzzle.” Their music careers (she is a violinist he is a cellist) often kept them apart, and this rootless yet happy stage in their lives is reflected in Martinu’s quirky three-movement duet, featuring a back-and-forth conversational aspect in the melodies. Louis, Richard experienced childhood halfway around the world in Christchurch, New Zealand. The program, including works by Bohuslav Martinu, Rebecca Clarke, Erwin Schulhoff and Ludwig van Beethoven, reflects their lives in various ways.

Within the larger theme of human connection, the concert will shine a light on one relationship in particular - that of the married musicians. It’s very relationship driven, and that’s what we’re about.” It’s not something to be put on a pedestal and in a way presented as an entity. “Games are done to connect people,” Lawyer said. concert Thursdayĭetails: $45 71, See More Collapse

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