Tonight is the final concert of the Composers Project sponsored by the Westport Arts Center. This series of chamber music concerts and talks grappled with the current state of 21st century classical music as seen through the eyes of composers and musicians.
Tonight's concert features Paul Moravec and Trio Solisti in Arnold Schoenberg's Transfigured Night, Felix Mendelssohn's Trio in C Minor, Op. 66 and Paul Moravec's Pulitzer Prize winning composition, Tempest Fantasy. Mr. Moravec, chairman of the music department at Adelphi University and facilitator of the Composers Project, is a prolific composer as well as recipient of numerous awards including the Rome Prize, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship. It is quite fitting to hear the Tempest Fantasy coming so close to the birthday of Shakespeare.