Parabola Trio

Deborah Marshall, clarinet
and Douglas Penick, text

7 pm / January 12, 2012

Members of the Intermezzo Chamber Players — Stacy Lesartre, Dianne Wachsman Betkowski, and Nan Shannon — perform together as The Parabola Trio. With distinctive talent and a keen interest in all things chamber music, tonight they perform Olivier Messiaen’s “Quartet for the End of Time” and other music. Alex Ross described Messiaen’s piece in The New Yorker as “the most ethereally beautiful music of the twentieth century,” and noted, “the title does not exaggerate the ambitions of the piece.” The Trio’s guests tonight are Deborah Marshall on clarinet and Douglas Penick, text.

Music Samples

Parabola Trio with Richard von Foerster (cello)

Douglas Penick