Ensemble 20/21 explores critical political and social ideas with “Music of Change.” The program features flutist and composer  Valerie Coleman’s evocative musical memoir of Josephine Baker for wind quintet,  "Portraits of Josephine",  Philip Maneval’s brass quartet,  "How We Prevail",  a moving meditation on the political turmoil of our time, and  "In the Field", a highly anticipated world premiere song cycle for soprano and piano quintet, commissioned by the Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia for its bicentennial, by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer,  Tania León.

The program continues with  Louis Andriessen’s unrelenting 1975 open-scored work for an unspecified (yet loud) group of instruments, " Worker’s Union", and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer  Anthony Davis‘s haunting clarinet concerto,  "You Have the Right to Remain Silent."