In collaboration with The Johns Hopkins Mood Disorders Center Psychiatry and the Arts Program, the music of Michael Hersch and words of Kay Redfield Jamison are paired with repertoire from the Renaissance to the 21st century.

On Tuesday, December 10 at 7:30 pm, in a program titled Night Falls Fast, close collaborators composer Michael Hersch and author/psychologist Kay Redfield Jamison join world-renowned performers including Ah Young Hong (soprano), Kevin Payne (lute and theorbo), Coleman Itzkoff (cello), and Conrad Harris (violin) in a program featuring music of Hersch, Gyorgy Kurtág, Rebecca Saunders, Claudio Monteverdi, John Dowland, and more. Woven into the performance are the words of acclaimed clinical psychologist Kay Redfield Jamison who reads from her book "Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide," a text in which Jamison illuminates historical, religious, and cultural responses to mental illness and suicide.