Artistic director Richard McKay leads the Dallas Chamber Symphony in a concert at Moody Performance Hall in Dallas, TX, on Feb. 21, 2023. A most enjoyable program of music unlikely to be heard anywhere else around here was served up Tuesday night by the Dallas Chamber Symphony. At least a quick search turned up no recent record of any other area performance of these three pieces for string orchestra.
This is another of the area’s part-time orchestras, with a lot of younger musicians, but McKay had it playing with assurance as well as generous expressive flexibility. The solo quartet passages were nicely handled by violinists Kazuhiro Takagi and Martha Walvoord, violist Misha Galaganov and cellist Nikola Nino Ruzevic.