Coming up on June 1 is Left Coast's final subscription concert of our season. Since we anticipate continued restrictions on congregating we are preparing to broadcast the concert to our audience online, either from the concert hall or our homes. One way or the other, we look forward to playing some remarkable music for you.

In the interest of health and safety, the musicians scheduled to play this concert have curated an updated program of solos and duets we can practice and rehearse at home. I'm excited about Sheltering Music, pieces picked for you by Stacey Pelinka, Phyllis Kamrin, Jerome Simas, Eric Zivian, Michel Taddei, Leighton Fong, and Loren Mach:

• Beethoven's rarely performed Piano Sonata, Op. 78, chosen by Eric for its succinct beauty

• Avian music: Peteris Vasks' Landscape with Birds, for flute, and Schumann's Bird as Prophet, for piano 

• Cloisonné a film accompanied by mesmerizing double bass music by Veronika Krausas

• Selections from Diaphonic Suite by Ruth Crawford Seeger and a baroque work by Michel Blavet that Stacey describes as "simple and haunting"

• Leighton and I are finally getting to play some of Jörg Widmann's tiny duos for violin and cello. We have wanted to work on these for years — they are incredibly fun and full of character, also full of surprises.

• Elliott Carter's brief and picturesque Steep Steps for bass clarinet