Jeremy Denk

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If you're going to write a bad review, you should do it in grand, slashing style ("Chernow's new biography of Twain is enormous, bland and remote--it squats over Twain's career like a McMansion" wow wow wow).

Based on this mornings open rehearsal so far you should make every possible effort (short of committing a crime) to hear Giulio Cesare tonight at Carnegie hall

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Still life: late Beethoven, coffee, sloth, capybara

It was fun and what’s cool is a lot of the commenters seemed to grasp the existential dilemma of choosing a piano the compromises and questions

couldn't disagree more...

I hate to criticize a great thinker like Edward Said, but what the f@#k is he talking about … ? op 110 is one of the most perfectly paced and designed pieces of the entire western canon

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not many people (like Beethoven) can turn their anger issues into great art

honestly, this is my favorite publicity photo of all time

An incredibly moving thing to see mtt at his last new world concert, after all the crazy cage and wuorinen and Ives and god knows what else… conducting as his final word a simple sentimental and yet heartbreaking song of grieg

a classic moment rehearsing with MTT… we got to the cadenza and i asked michael if i should play it … he replied why not? do you have a bar mitzvah to go to or something?

How can I get a copy

i offer you a somewhat redacted postcard from erik satie

not sure?

never try to outdrink a british orchestra at the end of a tour

The interviewer did an amazing job condensing my thoughts… but I didn’t mean to say that Nins Simone erased Gershwin completely… she simply got rid of all the original decorative gloss and reduced the tune to fundamentals (and in that purifying way resembles the working methods of Beethoven)

Jeremy Denk’s Musical Account of American Divisions The award-winning pianist on the relationship between music and politics—and on five books that hold them in tension.

Offered some reading suggestions about political divisions and music www.newyorker.com/books/book-c...

all of that is interesting though I think Fox News is a more direct cause than postmodernism

Some truth here (as a person who loves to make fun of academic lingo) but mostly this is bs … there are far more powerful forces creating anti intellectualism

yet another absurd nytimes headline

This framing is their framing, and NYT took the bait. The correct and accurate framing is: “Deep cuts to medical research threatens progress on cancer and heart disease research, costs the economy $80B, and threatens 300,000 jobs across red and blue states”

Judging from many piano audition tapes it is not gone

she did a lot of rewrites of the first bach prelude from WTC too, in various forms and disguises

she often did remixes of existing pieces, like last movement of mozart a minor piano sonata

cool

lol yes

i haven’t but will listen … is it a viotti transcription more or less?

i came across this obvious error in the wikipedia article on “fugue” is anyone else as outraged as i am?