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eve_primeYesterday or so I learned that there would be a very high quality piano concert tonight at the university. Apparently this year they started a new program in which, over the course of the school year, three world-class pianists will come here and do a concert and a master class; all of the pianists have Cliburn medals! I believe they said our university will begin hosting a biannual international piano competition as well!
Tonight’s concert was by Valery Kuleshov, a Russian who lives and teaches in the U.S. He performed a piece by Bach arranged for piano (“Chaconne from Violin Partita No.2”), the “Carnaval” by Schumann, “Six Etudes” by Zhelobinsky (of whom I hadn’t heard before; they were nice), and “Six Romances” by Rachmaninov. It’s fun that I’d seen PBS shows about Schumann (esp. the “Carnaval”) and Rachmaninov in the past month or so. We were all enthusiastic, and Kuleshov did four (!!!!) encores – more than two hours of music for $10! Afterwards I chatted with my friend the Soviet history professor and then my new friend C.
Tonight’s concert was by Valery Kuleshov, a Russian who lives and teaches in the U.S. He performed a piece by Bach arranged for piano (“Chaconne from Violin Partita No.2”), the “Carnaval” by Schumann, “Six Etudes” by Zhelobinsky (of whom I hadn’t heard before; they were nice), and “Six Romances” by Rachmaninov. It’s fun that I’d seen PBS shows about Schumann (esp. the “Carnaval”) and Rachmaninov in the past month or so. We were all enthusiastic, and Kuleshov did four (!!!!) encores – more than two hours of music for $10! Afterwards I chatted with my friend the Soviet history professor and then my new friend C.