Norton Simon Museum of Art (Venue Partner)
411 West Colorado Blvd
626-449-6840
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Thomas Pandolfi, pianist
- When
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Friday Jan 20 (7–8pm)
- Where
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Directions: Located on the corner of Orange Grove and Colorado at the intersection of the 210 and 134 freeways
- Price
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Free with Museum Admission
Early Baroque music contains some of the most gorgeously lyrical melodies ever composed as well as vital, invigorating rhythms. Be transported into a world of serene beauty from the very opening notes of the adagio from Alessandro Marcello’s Oboe Concerto in D Minor, transcribed for solo piano by Earl Wild, followed by the flowing scales, crisp ornaments and bracing excitement of four of Domenico Scarlatti’s charming sonatas. An early Italian-influenced sonata by Mozart is the centerpiece of the program, which concludes with a sumptuous nocturne by Ottorino Respighi and the intense Dante Sonata by Franz Liszt, a work that depicts the descent into the underworld with the use of the famous tritone interval and devilishly treacherous pianistic wizardry.
