February 12, 8:00 pm
First Pres Santa Monica     

Bohuslav Martinů
  Four Wind Madrigals (1938)
Bela Bartók
  Contrasts (1938)
Leos Janácêk
  String Quartet No. 1 “Kreutzer Sonata” (1923) inspired by the Leo Tolstoy    
  novella
Antonín Dvořák
  Piano Quintet No. 2, Op.81 (1888)

Denali Quartet
Francois Chouchan, piano
Leslie Reed, oboe
Donald Foster, clarinet
Rose Corrigan, bassoon
Alyssa Park, violin
Aron Kallay, piano

Leo Tolstoy: "Travelers were entering and leaving our carriage whenever the train stopped. Three persons, however, remained, bound apparently, like myself, for the furthest station, a lady, neither young, nor pretty, with a thin face, wearing a travelling cap, and a semi-masculine...."
                                     
Musical solidarity is found in the Czech and Hungarian sound worlds of 1938, that fateful year, 1938, music created from intensely personal and national identities, with styles that blend and contrast. Tolstoy's meetings inspire a catharsis of raw emotions, answered by the Bohemian humanity radiating from the ultimate piano quintet.