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Monday, January 21, 2019

Chopin's Piano Concerto

We went to the fifth concert of the Pacific Symphony's 2018-2019 classical concert series!  :)


Listen to Alan Chapman's preview on SoundCloud.

The Saturday night performance will broadcast on Classical KUSC on March 3, 2019.

Guest conductor David Danzmayr conducted with pianist Gabriela Martinez.


MUSSORGSKY:  Night on Bald Mountain
CHOPIN:  Piano Concerto No. 1
PROKOFIEV:  Symphony No. 7

KUSC's Alan Chapman interviewed both guests in the pre-concert lecture.
Gabriela started piano at age 5, saying she wanted to play the Beethoven's 2nd piano concerto, and she did so next year.  She once performed at a recital at Antlers, Oklahoma (where there were only 3 stores on main street), and the hall's piano were missing the highest octave!  Gabriela ended up playing a Liszt piece with a lot of clunking, I presume.


David is an Austrian conductor, and said the most difficult people to work with are Austrians!  :)
Because they are very emotional, and that multiplies with them being musicians.  He went on describing the traits of orchestras around the world.  David also talked about his experience as a student of the Mozarteum University Salzburg.  He said you shouldn't judge a person by what school they went to, but by with which teacher they studied from.

Gabriela was signing her CD during intermission.

You can sample Gabriela's piano on Amazon!  :)


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