Conductor Leon Botstein leads this concert spotlighting works from the late 1930s, including William Grant Still’s 1935 portrait of enslaved people taking refuge while seeking freedom, and Karl Amadeus Hartmann’s 1936 commentary on conditions under the Nazi regime. These works are performed alongside Carlos Chávez’s 1938 Piano Concerto, which debuted at Carnegie Hall in 1941, and Witold Lutosławski’s 1938 Symphonic Variations.

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