2013 News Archives
- Mark Abel Guestblog – Paderewski in Paso Robles
May 2, 2013
"Last Sunday, the final concert of this spring season was presented at the Cass Winery, a pleasant place far back in the rolling hills east of Paso Robles. The program was selected by the festival’s artistic director, pianist/composer Marek Zebrowski, a distinguished player and academic who heads the Polish Music Center at the University of Southern California. No Paderewski on the program, but rather these intriguing items – Johann Nepomuk Hummel’s Quintet Op. 87 and Debussy’s Petite Suite. Known to a few folks is the fact that Hummel’s work features the unusual quintet lineup in which a second violin is eschewed in favor of a double bass; Schubert’s “Trout” Quintet uses the same configuration (it was written in 1819, some 17 years after the Hummel). The enterprising Zebrowski adapted the popular Debussy piece for the same instrumentation. ..."