Tag: Friends of Chamber Music
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The Great ReOpen
Friends of Chamber Music, Denver Courtesy of David Spira Wednesday night, October 6, violinist Arnaud Sussman and pianist Anna Polonsky played a finely tuned program of Janacek, Dvorak, Brahms and Weinberg. It was a heady selection that displayed Sussman’s virtuosic skills and Polonsky’s sensitive playing. In 2006, Sussman became a teaching assistant to Itzhak Perlman.…
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Bartok, Janacek and Schiff: Men in Search of a Country:
Composers Bartok and Janacek and the pianist Sir Andras Schiff could not escape the politics that surrounded their lives. Schiff, known for his virtuoustic performances at the keyboard, is Hungarian like Bartok. Janacek, from Czechoslovakia, and Bartok were heavily influenced by the folk music of their respective countries. Bartok played the piano before he could…
The Lively Arts (redux) 