Registration now closed

Performance: Trio Metaphora with Enriqueta Carrington

Poetry & Music: Spanish & Latin American Songs and Dances

Trio Metaphora performs arrangements of dance music from Spain and Latin America arranged for wind trio and paired with readings from Carrington's translations of sonnets by Pablo Neruda.

Trio Metaphora performs music from many sources and styles: instrumental trios by Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and other classical composers; opera arias and songs by Mozart, Verdi, Puccini and others; tangos and dance music from Vienna, Spain and Latin America; and American, Russian, Spanish and Mexican folk songs. 

Featured Poet:

Enriqueta Carrington grew up in Mexico City. She got her bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the National University of Mexico and her PhD in mathematics from Rutgers University. She has published several books of poetry translations and received a translation fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her poems in English and Spanish have appeared in several journals and anthologies. She is a winner of the 2025 Maria W. Faust Sonnet Contest and is Senior Poetry Editor for the journal "US1 Worksheets." Photo taken at the Glimmerglass Festival campus in Cooperstown, NY.

Members of Trio Metaphora:

Mark D. Sloss (clarinet) is a woodwind artist, principally performing on clarinet and saxophone. He is also the founder and chief executive of Northbranch Records, a boutique record label focusing on emerging talent and rarely performed salon works, as well as Professional Wind Instrument Consultants, which maintains a curated selection of musical instruments and accessories to assist professional performing woodwind artists, academics, conservatory students and avid amateur players with finding their artistic voices. Mark has performed extensively in a variety of concert settings from solo and small chamber ensemble to symphony orchestra, and in a variety of genres from classical to jazz to dixieland to Klezmer. 

Lindsey Malko (clarinet) is a music educator and freelance clarinetist/woodwind doubler in Northern New Jersey. She has played with a variety of stage and pit ensembles across the  state, including the Kean University Wind Ensemble, Central Jersey Wind Ensemble and Sinfonietta Nova. She is the instrumental music teacher at Alexander Hamilton School directing both band and orchestra within the Morris School District. Ms. Malko is a graduate of Rutgers University Mason Gross School of the Arts with a bachelor's degree in music education and clarinet performance, and was a student of Dr. Maureen Hurd.

Roe Goodman (bassoon) has performed extensively with orchestral, opera, choral, and chamber music groups in Florida, Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York and was principal bassoon of the Princeton Symphony for 30 years. While completing a Ph.D. in mathematics at M.I.T. he studied bassoon with Sherman Walt, Principal Bassoon, Boston Symphony. After being on the mathematics faculty of M.I.T. and  a visiting member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, he was a professor of mathematics at Rutgers University for more than 40 years. At present he continues an active musical life as a performer and arranger for wind trio, having created more than 100 arrangements of music by composers ranging from Bach and Beethoven to Joplin and Piazzolla.

Public Humanities programs are presented with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this programming do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Community Room Accessibility

• Wheelchair accessible
• Assistive listening system compatible with personal T-coil-enabled devices (compatible headphones also available for use during programs)
• English-language subtitles for films (when available)
• If there is an accommodation that you need or would like so that you can fully enjoy library programs, please visit our Accommodations Request Form.

Upcoming events