'Threesome:' Gems of Music Literature

YOU dont always need 100 Men and A Girl (a symphony orchestra) to hear music steeped in beauty like the night and starry skies, whether instrumental or vocal (remember the movie with pretty, teener American warbler, Deanna Durbin?).

Sweetly melodic for the most part, and filled with Old World charm, grace and refinement, was the musical fare served us recently by the Clarion Chamber Ensemble "Intimate Threesome," at the Francisco Santiago Hall, the "home of splendid music," by the Manila Chamber Orchestra Foundation and its knowledgeable heads President Antonio Samson and Executive Director Armando Baltazar.

Indeed, the program - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Trio for Piano, Clarinet and Viola in E-flat Major, K498" Kegelstatt - (Andante, Menuette - Trio, Rondo - Allegretto), Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka's "Tio Pathetique for Clarinet, Bassoon, and Piano in D Minor" (Allegro Moderato, Scherzo …

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Publication information: Article title: 'Threesome:' Gems of Music Literature. Contributors: Not available. Newspaper title: Manila Bulletin. Publication date: May 22, 2003. Page number: Not available. © 2009 Manila Bulletin Publishing Corp. COPYRIGHT 2003 Gale Group.

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