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Pearson Headlines in Loeffler, Unfamiliar Mozart and Prokofiev   The Boston Musical Intelligencer August 23, 2010   The closing concert of this summer’s Portland Chamber Music Festival on August 21 at the University of Southern Maine’s Abromson Center saw Boston-based virtuoso oboist Peggy Pearson in a series of unfamiliar works, even though two of the composers, Mozart and Prokofiev, are household names. The program featured Pearson’s transcription of the 16-year-old Mozart’s Divertimento in D, K. 136, originally for string quartet; the Two Rhapsodies for oboe, viola and piano by the Alsatian-born German-American Charles Martin Loeffler, and the seldom-performed Quintet in G minor, op. 39, for oboe, clarinet, violin, viola and double bass by Sergei Prokofiev. Read More >>