Time and breath stand still in Barber’s Adagio for Strings. Florence Price’s expressive Violin Concerto No. 1, featuring violinist Melissa White, blends Romantic-era sensibilities with musical influences rooted in African American spirituals and folk idioms. Closing the program is Carl Nielsen’s Symphony No. 2, “The Four Temperaments,” a vivid psychological portrait drawn in sound. 

Florence Price (1887-1953) | Violin Concerto No. 1
featuring Melissa White, violin

Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) | Symphony No. 2, “The Four Temperaments” 

Samuel Barber (1910-1981) | Adagio for Strings