This program carries history with it.

Lysenko’s Taras Bulba Overture opens with a strong sense of identity and place. The piano concerto offers a more personal voice, something inward-looking before the scale widens again. Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony doesn’t hold back. It wrestles with tension, memory, and survival in a way that feels both personal and monumental. Shizuo Kuwahara leads a program that asks you not just to listen, but to sit with what the music holds.