Today's Sound Perimeter, Postcard from Mexico City, written as host Lia Uribe's present to you, after a short visit to Mexico this past week. Listen across three vibrant voices: Guadalupe Perales’ Intertwined: Color Changes for bassoon duo, Nubia Jaime Donjuan’s danzón Frida, and Andrea Sarahi’s “Piece for Bassoon Solo” from Calladita: Five Pieces About Violence. Lines crossed, colors shifted, and music moved from city  bustle to interior resolve. Host Lia Uribe hopes you enjoy these fresh and innovative voices, and her favorite instrument, her own instrument, the bassoon.  

Sound Perimeter is a segment hosted by Lia Uribe and dedicated to diverse voices in and around music. We hope it’ll expand your knowledge and connection to inclusive sounds and let music infiltrate your lives and transform your realities.

Today, Sound Perimeter was inspired by cats—curious, sly, playful, and full of personality. We met Prokofiev’s clarinet cat in "Peter and the Wolf," smiled at Rossini’s comic duet of meowing singers, and closed with the fiery pasodoble from Penella’s "El Gato Montés."

Today's Sound Perimeter includes two journeys of motion and momentum: Gity Razaz’s 'The Strange Highway', racing forward with eight cellos like headlights through shifting landscapes; then a cello quartet in Carlos Gardel’s “Por una cabeza” leaning into tango’s sway, where a heartbeat rhythm meets a bittersweet tune. Together, they reveal the cello’s range, choral and intimate, resonant and lyrical, and how music can carry us through desire, risk and release. Featuring performances by Gity Razaz, Erin Murphy Snedecor and the Galvin Cello Quartet. 

Rain is the guiding theme today, a symbol of reflection, renewal and emotional depth. Whether through the gentle resonance of Takemitsu’s Rain Tree Sketch or the steady, meditative pulse of Chopin’s Raindrop Prelude, rain becomes more than weather. It becomes metaphor that invites us to slow down, listen inward and find beauty in both stillness and storm.

Today’s Sound Perimeter episode spends time with the piano trio: violin, cello and piano, and sees how much music can come from just three instruments.

Today’s episode is a reflection, a sonic postcard if you will, from the recent Sound Perimeter LIVE concert at TheatreSquared in Fayetteville, an event that was possible thanks to the support of the University of Arkansas Women’s Giving Circle and the Reflexions Music Series.

Today’s Sound Perimeter is an invitation to listen closely to the fragile beauty of small things, to the spaces where sound lingers delicately, momentary, and full of meaning. In the music we chose, both Maurice Ravel (performed by pianist Kathrin Isabelle Klein) and Esperanza Spalding ask us to listen closely to little things carrying deep truths.

Today's Sound Perimeter joins in the celebration of all those graduating this year, marking transitions, closing chapters and stepping into new beginnings. We are proud of each graduate, and we celebrate their families, their teachers and all who have supported them along the way.