(My grandparents got here from Poland and my father spoke Polish.) The first motion is kind of like a funeral dirge, utilizing slow, unhappy, broken melodies, later interspersed with fast minor-key flurries from the violins and interjections by muted trumpets. Later on, nevertheless, there’s a ferocious, virtually savage break-out by the orchestra, with sharp flute and piccolo motifs stabbing through the massed sound of the opposite sections. The third movement is the slow one, played mostly by delicate strings with, again, a mysterious feeling about it.

• In basic, in style music is catchy and doesn’t require something from the listener.