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The Phillips Collection: Jordan Bak, Jay Campbell, and Geneva Lewis

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A trio of rising stars among string players, violist Jordan Bak, cellist Jay Campbell, and violinist Geneva Lewis join to perform a special program of string trios by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Arnold Schoenberg as well as the Sonata for Violin and Cello by Maurice Ravel. One of Mozart’s finest and most inspired compositions, Divertimento in E-flat major was also his only completed work for string trio and his longest piece of chamber music. Schoenberg’s String Trio Op. 45 was completed a mere week after the composer had suffered a heart attack. He wove subtle programmatic elements of his near-death experience into this intricately composed piece, his last major chamber music work.