Stop. Look. Listen.

My review of Sunday’s second Chamber Music Series concert is posted here. The next concert won’t be until May 17, with two big works planned: Brahm’s Sextet in B flat Major, Op. 18 and Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence Sextet in D Minor, Op. 70. Details here. So far, so good: I hope the LSO does this again next year! It’s been an outstanding series so far, with both thought-provoking and emotion-evoking programs. Sunday’s concert seemed to concern, in some way, the music of imperiled peoples: Bartok’s Hungarian, Rumanian and other Eastern European peasants, Hubay’s Gypsies, Bloch’s Hassidic Jews. And Brahms, while situated solidly in the Germanic tradition, often looked to Hungarian and Gypsy music for inspiration.