Dvorak’s Music Eloquent in Ghost Story
BERKELEY—To revive an excellent but forgotten oratorio by Antonin Dvorak, it took not the professional players, nor the downtown arts centers, but rather a thoroughly committed community orchestra and chorus to present “The Spectre’s Bride” of 1885. Dvorak’s prowess at high drama, compelling orchestration and choral writing as an integral component of story-telling was never more effective than in this evening-length Bohemian-Czech fairy tale about a damsel in distress bedeviled and abducted by a specter in the night. Coming in…