Music Restored: Exploring Czech Masterworks
This concert is included in these packages: Season Sampler.
ARRIVE EARLY: Enjoy a pre-concert talk at 6 pm with Adam Millstein, James Conlon, and Michael Beckerman, dean of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.
James Conlon, Conductor
Music Restored Ensemble
James Conlon, one of today’s most versatile and respected conductors, leads the Music Restored Ensemble in a love letter to Bohemian melodies. The program begins with a piece from the godfather of Czech music himself. Dvořák’s serene Nocturne in B Major is a short lyrical work with hypnotic orchestration. The concert then turns to two 20th-century Czech composers whose personal and professional relationship often inspired each other’s work. In her tragically short career, Vítězslava Kaprálová wrote nearly 50 compositions brimming with humor, energy, and warmth—one of her most inspired works being the spirited piano concerto on this program. The concert concludes with an orchestral tour de force by Bohuslav Martinů, Kaprálová’s mentor, friend, and lover.
Presented as part of Music Restored: The Ziering-Conlon Center for Exiled and Suppressed Composers, which encourages greater awareness and more frequent performances of music by composers whose careers and lives were tragically cut short by the Nazi regime. Music Restored is made possible through the generous support of Marilyn Ziering alongside the many donors who are inspired by this incredibly important work at Colburn School.
This performance is generously supported by Evelyn and Stephen Block, Raulee Marcus, and Abby Sher.
The runtime for this event is approximately 1 hour and 10 minutes, with no intermission.
The livestream scheduled for this evening will no longer take place as planned. We apologize for any inconvenience.