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Ars Viva!: In Skokie’s new North Shore Center for the Performing Arts, Ars Viva! presented its trademark mix of old and new Sunday: symphonies by Wolfgang Mozart and Dmitri Shostakovich plus the world premiere of a 1995 cello concerto by Rami Levin. As performed by soloist Kenneth Kulosa and the Northwest Indiana Symphony Chamber Orchestra, the concise three-movement concerto was a charmer–tangy, graceful, and full of melody (as distinct from tunes). Ars Viva! director Alan Heatherington made, in both his oral program notes and his conducting, the contrasts clear between Mozart’s lighthearted Symphony No. 30 in D and Shostakovich’s “Chamber Symphony,” an outcry of rage and mourning
for the victims of war and oppression.
