Soirée Musicale - Schubert Meets Jazz

Soirée Musicale returns with a fascinating juxtaposition of classical chamber music and jazz. Franz Schubert’s beloved Trout Quintet stems from a set of variations that Schubert composed on one of his own art songs, which he used as the fourth movement of the quintet – similar to how small combo jazz musicians improvise variations! Claude Bolling was a French jazz pianist and composer who wrote music to over one hundred films. He eventually composed a Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio that served as a template for several other works such as the Jazz à la française, an exciting and toe tapping suite that combines classical idioms with jazz characteristics from the swing and bebop areas.