David Alan Miller, conductor 

Saili Oak, soprano 

Lucy Fitz Gibbon, soprano  

REENA ESMAIL: Vishwas 

REENA ESMAIL: My Sister’s Voice (Meri Sakhi Ki Avaaz) 

SERGEI RACHMANINOFF: Symphony No. 1 

The concert 

Russian romanticism meets Hindustani classical music in a program that pairs Rachmaninoff’s sweeping Symphony No. 1 with new works by Reena Esmail about sisterhood across cultures and a poet whose ideas were dangerously ahead of their time.