Peggy Pearson and members of the Apple Hill Quartet gave the first performance of my new Oboe Quartet in Newburyport, Massachusetts this past Sunday, and Mark DeVoto reviewed the concert for the Boston Musical Intelligencer. A “csárdás with bebop chords underneath” is a memorable phrase and even more insightful than Mark might think, given the number of wedding receptions with a central European flavor I played during my student days in my hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, affairs at which my desire to be playing jazz had to be repressed while we performed the ethnic dance numbers that were expected of us. I’m not too sure I hear the Hungarian aspect of my quartet, but the bebop is definitely there. You can hear the piece in Peterborough, New Hampshire on April 25, and in Brookline, MA on April 26.