The Chamber Music Society of Minnesota presented an eclectic concert on Sunday at Hamline University’s Sundin Music Hall, spanning centuries and continents and offering celebrations, surprises and new explorations. The concert featured three world premieres, performances by former Minnesota Orchestra principal clarinet Burt Hara (recently retired from the Los Angeles Philharmonic), and co-artistic director Ariana Kim’s recent explorations into Carnatic music.

Kim and her father, fellow co-director Young-Nam Kim, began the program with a charming mash-up of Georg Philipp Telemann’s Intrada-Suite for two violins, “Gulliver’s Travels” and Luciano Berio’s Duetti for two violins. The juxtaposition of the two composers — one Baroque, one from the 20th century — allowed for serendipitous dialogu

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