Percussionist DOMNIQ, the Marmen Quartet, and composer Samuel Adams explore the many ways time and space can inhabit a concert for string quartet and percussion. Time is how you spend your love ranges widely, from core repertoire for string quartet and solo percussion to moments where the two come together, threading through themes of repetition, resonance, devotion, and obsession.

At the heart of the program are Adams’ two works for this adventurous pairing of instruments: Sundial, which paints a dreamlike sonic landscape, and Devotions, an instrumental cantata in seven movements that draws on the form and expressive language of Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time. And when Beethoven repeats the same tiny motif no fewer than 48 times in the Scherzo of his Sixteenth String Quartet, it becomes clear that he too was fascinated by the many ways music can stretch, suspend, and transform our sense of time.