Tonight: Free Classical Concert at Peace College

March, 08, 2010 , by David

Guest Post by Todd Morman

For some strange reason Peace College doesn’t bother to seriously publicize its regular presentation of some of the best free classical music in town, so here’s a last-minute reminder about tonight’s installment of Peace’s Manning Chamber Music Series. Every month or so during the season, the series matches a small group of NC Symphony musicians with Peace College faculty in a great performance space, the Kenan Recital Hall at the corner of Peace and Wilmington/Halifax, just across from the government mall. There’s always free parking nearby and a little reception with the musicians after the concert. Tonight’s bill includes an early Beethoven Piano Trio, Dvorak’s American Quartet (composed by Dvorak on vacation in Iowa, of all places) and a great early Prokofiev piece, the Overture on Hebrew Themes for piano, clarinet and string quartet, written by a young Prokofiev on an early visit to New York in 1919.

If Peace College’s Music Department has a page listing all of the Manning Chamber Music Concerts for this season, I can’t find it. Sure would be nice to have that all in one place, though.