Gretchen and Opus bid goodbye with this edition of Opus. We will miss hearing her weekly, but she promises to return for special broadcasts and to help during our fund drives.
AntoninDvorak'sPiano Quintet in A Major, Op. 81, B 155, was composed in 1888. Dvorak's fame had grown outside of his homeland, enough so that there was a…
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