Allied Arts

Tomorrow, Tuesday, Feb. 9 at 7:30 p.m. at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Brightmusic will perform a concert devoted to piano trios. The concert will feature some traditional performances, including a piano, violin and cello, and some non-traditional, with the addition of a trumpet. This will be the first of two Brightmusic, Music for Three, concerts that will focus on piano trios.

To get you in the music mood, check out these Wikipedia fun facts about piano trios:

• A piano trio is one of the most common forms found in classical chamber music.
• One of the most famous works for a piano trio is Dvorak's trio No. 4 in E minor (which will be performed at this concert).
• In the Classical period, home music making made the piano trio a very popular genre for arrangements of other works.
• The piano trios of the Classical era, notably those of Haydn, are dominated by the piano part. The violin only plays the melody a certain amount of the time, and is often doubled by the piano when it does. The cello part is very much subordinated, usually just doubling the bass line in the piano.

This month’s Brightmusic performance will include a Classical piece by Haydn, a Romantic piece by Dvořák and one piece from living American composer Ewazen.

Admission is free to all Brightmusic concerts but contributions at the door are welcomed and appreciated. There will be a reception following the concert for the audience to interact with the musicians.

For more information visit www.brightmusic.org.