Come journey with the Black Mountain Trio, composed of School of Music faculty artists, on the “Path of Romanticism” as they present three notable stops along the way: Mendelssohn’s delightful First Piano Trio; Dvořák’s well-known “Dumky” Piano Trio in E minor, Op. 90 (the six dumky movements are examples of a Bohemian musical genre that features sudden key changes and tempos, from slow and gloomy to fast and exuberant); and in-between Martinů’s “Bergerettes” shows a transition point from the late Romantic to the Modernist era.

The fact that Martinů composed this 1939 trio in Paris might account for its French title, as a “bergerette” is a shepherdess’ rustic song of earlier times. The Black Mountain Trio is Dmitri Vorobiev, piano; Kevin Lawrence, violin; and Brooks Whitehouse, cello.