Café Music for piano trio
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Close Encounters (14 Castle St., Great Barrington, MA 01230)
Hip hop artist Christylez Bacon, the first Hip-Hop artist to be featured at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival and with commissions by the Kennedy Center and the Smithsonian Institute, performs with Michael Chertock on piano, James Cammack on double bass, Artie Dixson on percussion and Xiao-Dong Wang on violin in Paul Schoenfield’s classical hit, Café Music for piano trio. Together they will set the tone for Close Encounters with Music’s celebratory re-opening, with artistic director Yehuda Hanani on cello.
Combining elements of classical, jazz, klezmer and whimsy, Café Music is caffeine-fueled and irresistible. Claude Bolling’s musings in the Suite for Cello and Jazz Trio offer up interpolations of boogie-woogie and ragtime with Baroque underpinnings.
Gershwin is represented with his Three Preludes for Piano. With a benediction from Beethoven (his Romance No. 2 in F Major for Violin and Piano).