The March concert of the Salon de Musiques concert series features two celebrated works by Edvard Grieg: the impassioned String Quartet in G Minor and the Concerto in A Minor (in a transcription for piano and string quartet). Also on the program: a beautiful piece, Suite for Two Violins and Piano, by Moritz Moszkowski (1854-1925), a composer who was made a fortune writing salon-friendly piano works, but died almost penniless, his works forgotten in the modernist mood of the twentieth century.

The artists: Sheng-Ching Hsu (violin), Chiai Tajima (violin), Alex Granger (viola), Evan Kahn (cello), and Sung Chang (piano).

As always, the magic of this series is the combination of intimate musical performance, interactive education, and great food and drink! As musicological “co-host,” I offer some introductory remarks on the program and moderate the post-concert Q&A with the artists, champagne glass in hand!