MUSIC
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2019
7:30 PM

Claremont Trio
Music Mondays
Advent Lutheran Church
2504 Broadway, Upper West Side, Manhattan

Free (registration preferred)
https://www.musicmondays.org/september-2019

Music Mondays kicks off what looks to be an especially good season even for them with a highly attractive concert. The passionately precise Claremont Trio — two identical twins and a pianist — plays new or newish pieces by Helen Grime, who I'm sorry to call a sort of generic contemporary-modern composer but who is yet capable of creating music of considerable appeal, and Gabriella Lena Frank, whose work is basically irresistible when, as in the piece on tonight's program, she's in Peruvian mode. The standard-rep pieces are about as good as they come: Brahms's Third Piano Trio, which is bracingly terse while still managing to be, well, Brahmsian; and Dvorak's sweet-and-sour Dumky Trio, one of those popular warhorses that actually deserve the status.

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