Close Encounters with Music offers two tickets to their Gala Concert: Like Father-in-Law, Like Son-in-Law: Antonin Dvorak and Josef Suk at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington on June 8 at 6pm.

Nationalist composer Dvoark rose to fame in Prague, paving the way for his favorite student and later son-in-law Josef Suk. There was great closeness and spiritual kinship between them, and both were championed by Brahms (who confessed to envying Dvorak his melodic gifts!). Dvorak’s Rondo and Suk’s Balada and Pisen Lasky love song are rarely performed gems, and the more familiar Piano Quintet No. 2 in A Major by Dvorak is acknowledged as one of the masterpieces in the form, along with those of Schumann and Brahms. An all-star ensemble of superb performers brings their extraordinary virtuosity and musicianship to this joyous and heartwarming repertoire!