Barber wrote the Adagio as the slow movement of a string quartet; we play the quintet coloring because the hall is small and the extra viola holds the room. Shaw's Entr'acte was built to sit between heavier works — treat it as a hallway, not a destination. The Dvořák terzetto is student-led: three parts, no conductor, the kind of listening we spend the term on. The new work is a Conservatory commission; the composer will say two sentences before it, then sit down.

No flash. No recording of the new work. Phones off, not silent. Flowers after bows, not during.

Hall — Capacity 90. Standing room at the back after 2:50.