It takes real guts (among other things) to program Pierre Boulez's Second Piano Sonata at the end of a concert, but Maurizio Pollini has guts and much more at his disposal. At yesterday's astonishing Carnegie Hall recital, he seemed even more vibrant than when I last saw him, in October of 2004. And after the Boulez, with a clamorous audience raining down whistles, bravos and applause, he had the stamina for five encores -- not bad for someone who turned sixty-five last January.
Above: Dan Flavin installation in Marfa, Texas
The Juilliard Journal
- New Take on an Old Form / A Viola Love Fest (November 2009)
- The Yin and Yang of Modern Chinese Music (October 2009)
- Schubert's Sonatas, Serene and Stormy / Ecologically Sound Pianism (September 2009)
- Not Your Grandmother's Chamber Music (May 2009)
- 2 String Mavericks Mix Classical With Pop and Jazz (April 2009)
- Scaling Bach's Olympus, Key by Key (March 2009)
- Modern Trios and Romantic Duos (February 2009)
- That Prodigal Son of Bach Strikes Again / A Jazz Pianist's Tomorrows (December 2008)
- Monumental Beethoven / Piano Arcana (November 2008)
- Parables and Passions: Music of Schoenfield and Tsontakis (October 2008)
- C.P.E. Bach and Martinu: Two Paths to the Cello Sonata (September 2008)
- Ragtime Riches / A Copasetic Jazz Gathering (May 2008)
- Electronic Duets That Dazzle / Brahms, In His Autumnal Glory (April 2008)
- Piano, Piano, and More Piano (March 2008)
- Juilliard on Three Continents (February 2008)
- Carter, the (Almost) Centenarian (December 2007)
- From Russia—And America—With Love (November 2007)
- Beethoven for 2, 3, and 4 (October 2007)
- The Recorded Legacy of Beverly Sills (September 2007)
Blogs
- A Spiral Cage
- Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
- An everyman for himself
- An Unamplified Voice
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- Blognoggle (Top 100 Classical Music Blogs)
- boulezian (Mark Berry)
- Brian sacawa | sounds like now
- Brilliant Detroit Reporting (Emily XYZ)
- Classical - Iconoclast (Anne Ozorio)
- Classical Music Blogs Pagecast (Chris Foley)
- Counter Critic
- Daniel Stephen Johnson
- Darcy James Argue's Secret Society
- Deceptively Simple (Marc Geelhoed)
- different waters
- Fantastical melancholy of the musical wren
- Feast Of Music (Pete Matthews)
- Felis pushkini (Clayton G. Koonce)
- Felsenmusick (Daniel Felsenfeld)
- Goings On: The New Yorker (Russell Platt)
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- Histriomastix (David Cote)
- inconstant sol
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- Ionarts
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- Jessica Duchen's classical music blog
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- Music As Weapon? (David T. Little)
- Musical Perceptions (Scott Spiegelberg)
- Night After Night (Steve Smith)
- On An Overgrown Path
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- Opera Chic
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- Robert Paterson’s Blog
- San Francisco Classical Voice
- Sequenza21/The Contemporary Classical Music Weekly
- So I've Heard (Alan Rich)
- Soho the Dog (Matthew Guerrieri)
- Sounds Like New (Marcus Maroney)
- Superfluities Redux (George Hunka)
- The Classical Beat (Anne Midgette)
- The Detritus Review
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- The Penitent Wagnerite (Patrick J. Smith)
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- the second sound (C. Dalton)
- The Standing Room (Sidney Chen)
- Tonic Blotter
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- well-weathered music (Miguel Frasconi)
- What I Learned From Aristotle
Aural
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- Good-Music-Guide Forum
- International Contemporary Ensemble
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- Look & Listen Festival
- ModernW o r k s !
- MOSAIC
- New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
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- Newband
- PRISM Quartet
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