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String4tetCellist
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(9/25/00 5:11:22 pm)
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Isaac
Stern's 80th B'day Concert!!
I went last night to an eightieth
birthday celebration concert in Carnegie Hall for Isaac Stern,
complete with vip(!) dinner afterwards. It was amazing!! There were
all sorts of musicians- from Yo-Yo to Pinchas Zuckerman. Yo-Yo
played a "Swan" that I thought was a bit reserved but beautiful
nonetheless (could've had a few more slides for my taste!), and
Midori and Pinchas played a Sinfonia Concertante that was to die!
Anyway, just had to mention it....
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justinkagan1
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(9/26/00 9:44:02 am)
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Re:
Isaac Stern's 80th B'day Concert!!
Curious if you noticed last night,
as my folks did, that Midori's playing is now so spiced up with
irregulity and exaggerations in phrasing that she is rapidly working
her way to historical footnote levels. Strange, but it appears that
this incarnation of Midori is reacting to a lot of criticism that
she was too square and clean in her approach to the repertoire...but
quelle reaction! All said the Swan was as beautiful as anything
they've heard from Original Famous OyOy (sorry, that's a very NYC
joke). First time my dad has had two of his endpins on the same
stage for a non-Met concert (Yo-Yo and Sharon Robinson). Any
impression of Jian Wiang (sp?)---he being the then-precocious 7 or 8
year old in the "From Mao to Mozart" movie (ahh, the connection; the
movie's producer, Wally Scheuer, also staged last night's homage to
Isaac). And to think, our Steve Drake graced the same stage tonight!
Life is beautiful.
Edited by: justinkagan1
at: 9/26/00 9:44:02 am
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String4tetCellist
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(9/26/00 6:05:37 pm)
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Midori
etc...
Well, I didn't notice exaggerations
in Midori's playing. But I guess I wouldn't- I'd be much more likely
to notice if exaggerated ideas WEREN'T there- as in Yo-Yo's "Swan."
I really am a sucker for slides...What I noticed in Midori's playing
was that she was experimenting- that's what we're supposed to
do...-with all sorts of different things. Mainly what I noticed was
that she was trying for a new sound, one with very, very little
vibrato. I liked it. But god, I really am a sucker for wide vibratos
(god, I love Ms. du Pre!). As for Jian Wang, what I heard was a very
technically talented young cellist. A young cellist who has no
experience, obviously, with chamber music. He started that scary 2nd
cello passage at the beginning of the Mendelssohn Octet's scherzo at
a tempo that nobody could play-including himself, I thought: it was
blurry, that is, very unclear. The chamber players in that
group-Arnold Steinhardt, Michael Tree, Sam Rhodes, and Joel
Krosnick-helped very much to straighten that out, I thought. But you
can't blame Jian Wang for being inexperienced- he was obviously
brought up in such a way that the emphasis was on solo playing, NOT
chamber music (I'm glad to say, the complete opposite of me-I think
chamber music is the ultimate wonderful thing to do with music...).
The gift at the end of the night (party bags, I suppose!) was a copy
of From Mao to Mozart!
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