Earplay Plays to Spellbind
“After intermission, cellist Moore was joined by clarinetist Peter Josheff and Pianist Brenda Tom for Trio d’apres Schoenberg by Patricia Alessandrini. The composer was a performer as well, albeit an electronic one, modifying the instrumental sounds coming from the stage via laptop a few feet from where I sat. She seemed to evoke a spaced out harmonic skeleton of the Schoenberg Trio coming from the next world, or at least from the Paris studios of IRCAM. Trio d’Apres Schoenberg was six minutes of musical gooseflesh, and, tautly conducted by Mary Chun, it held the audience spellbound.”
Jerry Kuderna