If you happen to be at the Aspen Music Festival August 2, you can eavesdrop on U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice talking with Aspen Institute president and CEO Walter Isaacson about music, and then hear her play piano.
Maybe you didn't know that Rice was a classical pianist in training before turning her attention to...well, you know the company she's been keeping recently.
She'll be playing the first movement of Dvorak's Piano Quintet in A major, B. 155, op. 81 and the second movement of Brahms' Piano Quintet in F minor, op. 34.
My favorite sentence from the Aspen Festival press release announcing the event: "Secretary Rice has said publicly that her favorite composer is Brahms."
Photo: Rice partnering with Yo-Yo Ma (Reuters)
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Peter Dobrin has been writing about classical music and the arts for The Inquirer since 1989. He earned an undergraduate degree in performance from the University of Miami, and received a master's degree in music criticism from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University.
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