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2022-11-18 04:19:47
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE In a war film like Devotion, the action is literally flying all over the place (and dive-bombing, too). So how do you The post first appeared on CutCommon.
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2016-08-08 21:58:27
The Astonishing Alex Beyer
Alex Beyer (file photo) With 22-year-old pianist Alex Beyer, who played Saturday night at Walnut Hill School for the Arts in the Chinese Performing Arts Foundation festival, we moved a full step up to an almost completely different level of artistry. Already Beyer presents as—let me grab my dictionary—a highly accomplished, confident, mature pro, complete in both skills and taste, constantly poised and strong, a player who even in savagely difficult works effortlessly offers up interpretations of depth, probity and insight, and does so with easy brio, achieving renditions anyone twice or thrice his age would be grateful for. We’re not talking competition technique here (although he has that in spades) but unhesitant, projected musicianship. This recital comprised Bach, Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, and Ravel, with Scriabin for the encore. (No Chopin, no Schubert: yay.) I actually was not looking forward greatly to any of it. Much Bach playing is not […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2016-07-04 04:40:29
Denk’s Dyspneic Default
Can it really be the case that hip explanatory pianist Jeremy Denk’s 15 minutes are up? At his Rockport Festival recital Thursday night, early on in each of his generally pushed, slightly imprecise performances (the stand-up ones also), I thought, eesh, is this really the guy the New Yorker a few months ago branded the “Charles Rosen of Generation X”? (A preposterous fancy, unworthy of all parties involved; I so hope it wasn’t uttered by the magazine’s fine critic Alex Ross.) Beforehand, Denk could be heard whaling away on the Wanderer Fantasy in the green room. Maybe a good sign, I supposed in the hallway; he’s that into it. When he appeared onstage, to explain his reordering of the listed opening pair of Mozart sonatas, plus subbing of scheduled Beethoven’s Tempest with smörgås from his published program, the vibe became impromptu. The emphasis in K.533’s simple-sounding Allegro was Mozart’s faintly […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2015-09-16 22:05:19
All-American Maverick Finale
Marc Black (Susan Hogelin-Black photo) The 2015 Maverick Concerts season closed on Sunday with a concert by the American String Quartet and a world premiere of a piece that just might remain in the string quartet repertory. In its 39th season, the ASQ is still looking for new material to explore. You can’t get any newer than a piece written for you. By a happy coincidence, one of the Quartet’s favorite living composers is also a local resident who has been involved with Maverick for years, George Tsontakis. And as part of Maverick’s 100th season, the organization arranged for a commission to Tsontakis for a new work (one of four, three of which have now been performed). Tsontakis called his work “String Quartet 7.5 (Maverick)” because it’s in two movements and, at 12 minutes, about half the length of most of his quartets. But there’s nothing slight about this […]
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