Love & War

Pianist Awadagin Pratt joins Daniel Hope and New Century for this program of potent 20th century American works for strings that speak to our collective emotions. Coping with the senselessness of war is the heartbeat of the program’s first half, with composer Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson confronting his concerns about the Korean War through his work Grass. In contrast, composer David Diamond wrote his exuberant work Rounds to dispel the gloomy wartime mood of the 1940s in vivid fashion. The program closes with Leonard Bernstein’s Serenade (after Plato’s Symposium), an epic work for solo violin, strings and percussion inspired by the ancient Greek debate over love in its many forms.

Daniel Hope
Music Director and Concertmaster

Awadagin Pratt
Piano

PROGRAM:

Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson
Grass, Poem for Piano, Strings & Percussion

David Diamond
Rounds, for strings

INTERMISSION

Florence Price
“Adoration,” for violin and strings
(arr. Paul Bateman)

Leonard Bernstein
Serenade (after Plato’s Symposium)

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