With violin in hand, Mark Menzies finds hope for the future in the past

Music, we all know, can change moods. But can it change minds as well? Just how crazy is it to expect a single violin to coax us toward utopia? 

That is the mission of Luigi Nono’s 45-minute masterpiece, “La Lontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura: Madrigale per piu ‘Caminantes’ con Gidon Kremer.”...