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Hope for the best, prepare for the worst

at a recital. Or a mini-recital. This one is just 30 minutes of music, as requested by the Minnesota Orchestra as part of my audition. So the question becomes: how much can you, or should you, pack into 30 minutes? I have accepted an invitation from a colleague to play through my 30 minutes at [...]

about last week’s chamber music,

how could I forget to post? First, the sextets. Znaider is a wonderful player, which was true not only in our chamber concert but in his Beethoven concerto with the CSO later in the week. He was also a gracious colleague and compelling leader. We had two rehearsals, and that was just about right. Not [...]

three thousand years

The Beethoven concerto provided a significant intonation challenge for me. It combined the classical purity of a Mozart concerto with quite a few gymnastics that I was not accustomed to performing so cleanly. Those lessons were frustrating in the beginning, both for me and Mr. Galimir as he impressed upon me the importance of playing [...]

old-school chamber music

We stared at an empty coach’s chair. It was unusual, said the other three, for Felix Galimir to be late. So we brushed up a few passages, alternating playing with talking, mostly questions tinged with nervous anticipation. Our cellist asked if we thought Galimir would hear the entire Haydn quartet or just the first movement. [...]

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