Bach, Berio and Dvořák in the mountains of Montana

Robert Spano and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra provide polite Mozart, with soloist Pedja Muzijevic, and a powerful Shoshtakovich Fifth. 

The midday concert was held a barn designed by the same team who engineered London's Wigmore Hall, and acoustics are as warm and carefully attuned as its modest, appealing interior.

Employing khoomei, a style of singing that remains “a mystery to Western science”, each of the four performers was capable of producing up to four notes at once.

“It is impossible to find anyone in the world today who is young and not ill,” muses André Breton in Chiaki Kawamata’s novel Death Sentences. “Youth itself is a kind of disease.” There is in youth something that exerts a powerful hold on the imagination. Its freshness, its arrogance, its promise – all of these building a magnetic aura that exerts a powerful hold on our consciousness.

On Thursday evening, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center presented its inaugural concert of the 2013-2014 Late Night Rose series. On the stage of Lincoln Center’s Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio, performers put on a delightfully curated show, featuring the works of three lesser-known Western composers: Arthur Bliss, Karol Szymanowski, and Josef Suk.