As the weather begins to turn colder, Ronen invites you to imagine yourself in balmier days… Australian composer Ben Hoadley‘s Porch Music, written for Ronen and featuring the ensemble’s four music directors, shares the first half of the program with Beethoven’s first string quartet, a seminal work in the same key as his Pastoral Symphony. Felix Mendelssohn’s masterful first piano trio balances the program in the rarely heard version for flute, cello, and piano, an arrangement sanctioned by the composer for his adoring British public.