2025-2026 Concert Season: The Crossing Point

In a time marked by disconnection, displacement, and ecological rupture, the Fry Street Quartet offers a season that invites us into the spaces between—spaces that hold the possibility of reconnection.

Between friends and community.
Between humans and the more-than-human world.
Between place and time.

The Crossing Point is a term borrowed from author and ceramicist M.C. Richards, who first encountered it in the language of plants. In her book The Crossing Point, she writes:

When seeds sprout… the root goes down and the seedling leaves go up… there is a layer of cells, sometimes only a cell wide, where this differentiation takes place. It is called the crossing point. It is the place where both directions coexist.

This idea of simultaneous growth—upward and downward, while holding the center—animates the spirit of our season.

Over the course of three concerts, we gather:

• to reach outward in joyful collaboration,
• to extend from the center, bearing witness to the present moment,
• to root downward, connecting with music of the past to make sense of now.

Each concert stands alone.

Together, they form the Crossing Point in a trio of reaching, centering, and rooting.

Upcoming Concerts