Celebrate the end of The
COT’s 2025-26 Season and the universality of music with Music Beyond Borders.
Bedrich Smetana brings one of Shakespeare’s greatest tyrants to life with dark
intensity in his dramatic symphonic poem Richard III. Brazilian composer
Clarice Assad’s Sin Fronteras (“Without Borders”) offers a
rhythm-infused fusion of global musical traditions, blurring the lines between
classical, jazz, and folk. And what better way to close out the season than
with one of the greatest concertos of all time?! Written during his visit to
the United States, Antonin Dvroak’s Cello Concerto is a masterpiece
of deep emotion that marries a longing for the composer’s Bohemian home with
the expansive spirit of the New World.