The Evening Concert

She reads him a different story each night until he falls asleep, thus avoiding certain death....that 'she' is Scheherazade.

Starting with the sound of "fresh cut flowers", then to the sublime Ravel Quartet, closing with Mozart. Enough said.

This week's Evening Concerts feature the first of a series from Music Mountain, Scheherazade, a Bach Orchestral Suite and more.

Dohnanyi, Bartok = Hungarian. They had a flair, you know, for composition!

A "Festive" {Overture} Piano Concerto on a Night (on a Bald Mountain?)

One of the more difficult 'things' to judge in music is the amount of 'nationalist" elements there are in a piece. Clearly Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich are Russian composers who share a "Russian sense" yet they are so different in style, as well.

If music could be heard"in color" then the works on tonight's program would be 'in living color'...

Tonight's concert might be deemed to be about the depiction of "Time" in music: the life and death of an artist, a philosopher, and a new notion of it (time).

Music of Richard Strauss, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff and others on this week's "Evening Concert" series.

Piano + string quartet is the expected instrumentation for the piano quintet. Vaughan Williams used one of each: violin, viola, cello, double bass. here the sonic difference in that chamber ensemble tonight.