The Verdehr Trio has become a perennial favorite at the Phillips Collection, where twice a year it presents new works -- which it has usually commissioned -- for its unusual combination of clarinet, piano and violin. The trio continued that tradition Sunday afternoon, dispatching a Mozart divertimento as an appetizer but quickly settling down to some intriguing new works written for it in the past few years. Rick Sowash composed his "Memories of Corsica" for the Verdehr in 2007, and it's an engaging, colorful tone poem in the time-honored genre of musical ... (more)