A conversation with Peter Sirotin, violinist in the Mendelssohn Piano Trio, Ensemble in Residence at Messiah College, and Alan Hineline, Director of Artistic Programming at Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, about their upcoming collaboration for the second concert commemorating the publication of Tolstoy’s War and Peace. Alan Hineline joined by phone as they discussed Arensky and Shostakovich, the seismic shift that happened as a result of the two world wars, and the profound collaboration between music and dance.