Parfait

Saturday, November 12, 2011 at 8 pm
Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall
Longy School of Music

Some music is meant to be sheer entertainment, like Françaix’s Divertissement (although his version retains distinctly Parisian chic – no sweats and sitcoms here). Composed directly before his last three symphonies, and the first of his final three piano trios, Mozart’s Piano Trio No. 4 has a bittersweet tinge as part of the gateway into his final years of life. It’s elegantly enjoyable music as only he could write. Is there anything more exquisite than a summer night? Katherine Hoover captures and diffuses it with flute, horn, and piano (no bug spray required).  Also on the program: a work by the perpetually witty Jan Bach, and Michael Gandolfi’s out-of-this-world pieces to accompany six abstract Super 8 films by Pamela Larson.

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