Pro Arte welcomes James Burton, Conductor of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, and Boston Symphony Orchestra trumpeter Benjamin Wright for its season finale. Richard Wagner’s warm Siegfried Idyll, composed as a loving birthday gift to his wife Cosima, conveys the contentment of the couple with their new son Siegfried on a glorious morning in their villa on Lake Lucerne. In her Trumpet Concerto, contemporary Russian-British composer Elena Langer examines the musical textures and procedures of the Baroque era through a 21st-century lens. In much of his music, Antonín Dvořák was inspired by the diverse dances of his native Bohemia. His Czech Suite features a rolling pastorale, a nimble polka, a minuet-like sousedská, a lilting romance, and a dashing furiant.

Musical Program