First: A sleep-inducing Mozart String Quartet No. 15 in D minor, K. 421. It would have been a beautiful piece to take a nap with. The Merkin Hall staff had forgotten to turn on the air conditioning, so it might not have been Mozart's fault. We folded inward as Mozart's delicate phrases repeated and danced around us.
With the air finally turned on, The Adventures of Hippocrates by Chick Corea was a delight. A perfect example of what young listeners must be enjoying in contemporary re-imaginings of classical music.
The last piece was Franz Schubert's Quartet No. 14 in D minor "Death and the Maiden," D. 810. Intricate, dramatic and intriguing -- and only a little but like death or a maiden.
