Music@Menlo: one bite at the apple

As I'm not professionally reviewing any more, I have no required commitments at the Music@Menlo Festival, and I'm going to be away for most of it anyway. It started today; for the brief period before I go, I squeezed in just one item, tonight's free Prelude concert by the young professionals of the International Program. We had a firm and dutiful rendition of Beethoven's rather perky Op. 1 No. 1…