Please note: this concert is a change from the originally programmed concert.

The season finale becomes an up-close experience in the hands of the husband-and-wife team Arizona Philharmonic’s concertmaster Katherine McLin (violin) and Andrew Campbell (piano). Under the title Dances and Dialogues, the program traces that idea across three centuries, from Leclair’s Baroque sonata and Zwilich’s Episodes to Korngold’s Shakespeare scenes and Brahms’s late‑Romantic sonata.

Jean-Marie Leclair opens with Baroque poise filled with ornamented lines. Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s Episodes shifts the language into the present with two compact movements: one that sings, and one that snaps into rhythmic life. Erich Wolfgang Korngold then places the duo on a Shakespeare stage in Much Ado About Nothing—music the Viennese wunderkind wrote well before his Hollywood career—offering four vivid scenes: The Maiden in the Bridal Chamber, Dogberry and Verges: March of the Watch, Scene in the Garden, and Masquerade–Hornpipe.

After intermission, Johannes Brahms’s Violin Sonata No. 3 provides the concert’s widest span, a four‑movement arc that keeps violin and piano as equal partners from start to finish. The finale turns outward into dance: Henry Flurry’s Machiche, Manuel de Falla’s Danse espagnole arranged in the Kreisler tradition, Astor Piazzolla’s “Nightclub 1960,” and the plainspoken melody of Jay Ungar’s famous Ashokan Farewell as a last word.