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mavi – day three report

MAVI participants giving a Mozart quintet a trial run before a lunchtime audience.

Lots of teaching and chamber music coaching was done on Tuesday, with some private lessons thrown in for good measure.  Got to meet a young woman who was taking viola lessons via Skype while on deployment with the US Army in Iraq, what a story!  She came to the evening concert with her distance-learning teacher.  The evening concert was another lovely event, with Joyce Ramée and Marcia Ott performing Mozart’s Sinfonia concertante with the evening’s pianist, Sandra Bleiweiss, to a standing ovation.  Scott Ligocki and John Scanlon led off with a two viola and piano arrangement of the Waltz from  Khatchaturian’s Masquerade.  Betty Agent played two seldom-heard works by Frank Bridge: Pensiero and Allegro appassionato.  John Scanlon and Sandra Bleiweiss ended the evening in high style with a lovely rendition of Brahms’ Sonata in E-flat major, op. 120 no. 2.