In response to the sold-out performance of the Shostakovich and Weinberg Piano Trios last season, this recital pairs the composers’ intimately connected piano quintets. This event has reached capacity. This performance will be livestreamed.
SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Quintet in G Minor, Op. 57 WEINBERG Piano Quintet, Op. 18
Performers Adam Millstein and Jason Moon, Violin Nicolas Garrigues, Viola Yoshika Masuda, Cello Dominic Cheli, Piano
Dedicated to emigre, composer, and long-time Los Angeles resident Walter Arlen, this program features premieres of works by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco and Walter Arlen, who both fled fascism and artistic repression in Europe and made their home in Los Angeles. A pre-concert talk at 5:30 pm will focus on the life-defining challenges exiled artists faced in the 1930s and 40s and what must be done today to keep their work alive. This performance will be livestreamed.