Imagine the sensation of realizing that you’re unprepared for a test – that you’ve been studying the wrong subject. It was sort of like that when pianist Maria Joao Pires heard the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra begin to play Mozart’s D minor piano concerto. She had thought she’d be playing a different concerto by Mozart on that mid-day concert. The resulting confusion was caught on tape, as part of a documentary.

KDFC's The State of the Arts
The Bay Area has some of the world’s best-known performing arts organizations and cultural offerings. Each day, Jeffrey Freymann showcases activities, concerts, soloists and ensembles coming through the area.