Winner of the Rome Prize and a Guggenheim Fellow, the composer-performer Suzanne Farrin is heard in the world premiere of Their Hearts Are Columns, which also features parts for soprano, harp, percussion, and double bass. Farrin’s own instrument, the ondes Martenot, is an early electronic contraption played with a keyboard, sometimes with the help of a sliding ring. Messaien used it heavily in his mind-bending Turangalîla-Symphonie; once heard, the woozy, weirdly elephantine sonority is recognizable in nanoseconds. The remainder of Farrin’s program includes selections with intriguing Italian titles and varying constellations of singing voices and instruments. A likely highlight: selections from dolce la morte, an opera based on the love poetry of Michelangelo. —Matthew Gurewitsch