Old and New

Monday's Etnakhta was a classic mix of classcal and modern, played by the Alexander Trio. Hayden, then Beethoven to start, Schumann to finish. The before-intermission piece from 2006 by Oded Zehavi opened with the usual doom-is-coming atonality (or is that dissonance), but eventually moved into a lovely stretch that seemed to be the composer's assertion that he could write conventional beauty if he wanted to. After intermission Reuben Seroussi's "Ancia" from 2012 opened with violin squeaks and went on incomprehensibly (to me) from there. I could have used a lecture or maybe a year-long music course.

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