Here's a summer concert that's easy and cheap: for just $15 you can get in to the Piedmont Piano Company's new Oakland store on San Pablo Ave. to hear excellent pianist Eliane Lust play Joplin, Gershwin, and a variety of tangos. If you haven't heard of Lust, the Belgian-born pianist now coaches in San Francisco.
She was renowned composer/pianist Frederic Rzewski's duo partner and she's had a wide-ranging international career as a recital soloist.
If that's not enough to pique your interest, Lust will be playing a Fazioli grand, one of those fabulous pianos from the renowned Italian company, which makes only 110 instruments a year at its single factory.