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"Chamber Music in Any Chamber" is The Chiara Quartet's motto and on April 25 at 4 p.m., these accomodating musicians play Mozart, Beethoven, and music of the outstanding young New York composer Jefferson Friedman in a large and lovely local chamber, Southport's Pequot Library.
Jefferson Friedman, 34, is a Julliard-trained composer, who as New York Magazine put it, "is known for his alternately raucous and elegant compositions."
He won the 2004 Rome Prize Fellowship in Musical Composition from the American Academy in Rome. The Washington Times praised his piece, "The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium," saying, "Perhaps this country's long drought of listenable classical music is now coming to an end. This work, frankly, is a keeper."
Friedman's mentor is Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Corgliano, who spent summers as a child in Westport. The Westport Library commemorated his 70th birthday celebration in 2008. The library's notes said, "At a pre-concert talk held at the Norwalk Concert Hall several years ago, Corigliano reminisced about the good times he had in Westport. He mentioned that his father would often go outside and practice the Brahms, Mendelssohn or Tchaikovsky concertos on a hill. What a treat that must have been for the neighbors on Valley Road." The Chiara Quartet's concert is co-sponsored by the Pequot Library and the Westport Arts Center. Admission is free. For more information, visit Pequot Library's website.
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