As the Western world turned giddy with 1920s post-war optimism, composers fed the cultural fires with an astonishing array of newly-conceived musical ideas. Gershwin painted his Parisian experience with a piano duo, Janáček confessed his secret passions in a string quartet, and Korngold released a torrent of post-romantic music that would find its way to Hollywood’s biggest screens.

Program
Janáček Quartet No. 2 for Strings, “Intimate Letters” (1928)
Copland Lento molto from Two Pieces for String Quartet (1928)
Gershwin An American in Paris for Two Pianos (1928)
Korngold Suite for Piano Left Hand, Two Violins, and Cello, Op. 23 (1930)