Dvorák & Bernstein

Emotional conflict is at the heart of this moving program, although it’s tempered by the presence of Kodály’s lighthearted, late-Romantic Serenade. Bernstein’s Halil—which the composer said speaks to a sense of war-based or war-feared “struggle” and to “the consolations of art, love, and the hope for peace”—opens the program, while Dvořák’s tumultuous F-minor Piano Trio—a work that an influential critic at the time said demonstrated that the composer was “at the pinnacle of his career”—brings the evening to a dramatic close. 

BERNSTEIN Halil for Flute, Piano, and Percussion 

KODÁLY Serenade, Op. 12 

DVOŘÁK Piano Trio in F Minor, Op. 65 

Ran Dank, George Li, piano; Cho-Liang Lin, Danbi Um, violin; Ida Kavafian, viola; Peter Wiley, cello; Tara Helen O’Connor, flute; Alexis Corbin, Gregory Zuber, percussion 

Approximate length: 1 hour and 45 minutes