KNOW-IT-ALMOST

posted by James Reel

This Sunday, I'll be giving the pre-performance talk for Chamber Music Plus' presentation "A Stopped Clock: From Brahms To Bloomsbury." The subject will be English composer, conductor and women's rights activist Ethel Smyth, about whom I know about two minutes of material that will have to be spun out to fill a 20-minute chat. I'd better start hitting the books.

The talk begins at 2:30 this Sunday at the Berger Performing Arts Center; the performance, featuring Broadway actress Jenny Sterlin and new Tucson Symphony concertmaster Aaron Boyd, starts at 3. Even if you don't care about my talk, you'd better get there early, because most of the audience does, and the parking lot is small.