AT THE DOHENY MANSION with EUGENIA ZUKERMAN: A wonderful evening of music (and anecdotes):

Renowned flutist Eugenia Zukerman is also well known as the classical music correspondent for CBS' long-standing program "Sunday Morning." At her chamber music concert with Henry Gronnier and Thomas Diener , she played flutist AND donned her music correspondent hat - to the audience's great delight. Below is a recap of some of her comments and stories:

On Henry Gronnier and Thomas Diener - The Rossetti Quartet (co-founded by Henry and Thomas) is one of the finest chamber music ensembles in the country today. They perform regularly at the Vail Valley Festival (of which Ms. Zukerman is the Artistic Director) and have become good friends who enjoy making music together and have so much fun especially during rehearsals, finding and deciding which music to perform. She told the audience that as they will hear that evening, Henry is not only and excellent violinist but a fine pianist as well.

On CPE Bach - Johann Sebastian Bach's second son (by his second wife Barbara); had a "day job" in the court of King Friedrich of Prussia who received flute lessons from him. But hee hated his job: "It is no fun teaching an old man who's losing his teeth, his breath, and his rhythm!"

On Max Reger (perhaps least known among the composers whose works were performed that evening) - He was a genius like Mozart - one of very few men who could compose an entire piece in his head and then sit down and write every note in one seating. Unfortunately, he did not find time to write all the pieces he composed because he was very busy enjoying life, and died tragically at age 46. Disgusted by a rotten review by a music critic he had just read, he unmercifully wrote back, "I am here sitting in the smallest room in my house and I have your rotten review in front of me. In a moment, it will be behind me."

Thomas Diener with his gently soothing baritone voice, revealed himself to be a delightful music commentator and had some stories of his own to tell.

On the origins of chamber music - the piano was the instrument of the middle classes, and with the flute, violin, viola together - chamber music became the people's form of entertainment, becoming the TV of the time

Of his good friend Henry - As a little boy growing up in France, Henry desperately wanted to learn the piano. But his mother at the time favored violin lessons; so little boy Henry forged his mother's signature on a document agreeing to his taking piano lessons.

On Max Bruch - Everyone thought he was Jewish, but he didn't have an ounce of Jewish blood in him. But the soul! there is so much Jewish soul in his music....