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Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, with Stewart as soloist, is transformed into a call for climate action at Merkin Hall at Kaufman Music Center, the strongest moments coming in the musical quotations. 

The Israeli Chamber Project gave Milhaud's La Création du monde a warm and easy stride, a tactic that didn’t sit well in the second half with the ever-austere Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time.

The program, drawn from Kronos’s 50 for the Future commissions, ranged from the exotic to the complex, with students joining in for a Philip Glass string orchestra finale.