Just as musicians take a printed score and bring it to life through performance, a program note has the power to animate a work and humanize a composer.  Yellow Barn cellist Annie Jacobs-Perkins has a penchant for program-note writing.  In this video, she discusses why she enjoys writing notes for Yellow Barn concerts, as well as her process.

Read some of the notes Annie has written thus far for the summer season:

Shostakovich: Seven Romances on Poems of Alexander Blok
Ysaÿe: Trio à cordes "Le chimay," Op. posth.
Brahms: Piano Trio in C Minor, Op. 101