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FALL 2008 HIGHLIGHTS
Benjamin Verdery, one of the most persuasive advocates of new guitar music...
AT 92 St Y, Kaufmann Concert Hall
ON Saturday, December 6 at 8pm
World premiere of Ingram Marshall's new work for flute (Rie Schmidt) and guitar
New York premiere of Joaquin is Dreaming by Martin Bresnick, written for Benjamin Verdery
Inti-Illimani, Chile's musical ambassadors...
tours North America in November
Featured at the CINARS Conference in Montréal
ON Wednesday November 19 at The Metropolis
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Discography
NEW DVD RELEASE
WHERE THE CLOUDS SING
40th Anniversary documentary.....
Learn more and see trailer of the documentary...
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James Campbell
Festival of the Sound Artistic Director James Campbell
Plans the 30th Anniversary Season
July 17th to August 9th, 2009
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Anthony Newman
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ST BART'S GREAT CONCERT SERIES
OCTOBER 1, 2008 AT 7:30PM
BACH MUSICAL OFFERINGS
CPE Bach Tr...
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CONGRATULATIONS ADAM!
GREAT SUCCESS AT
CARNEGIE HALL NOVEMBER 2....
They came from all over the world....
Hungary, Japan, France, Canada, United States........
November 4, 2008
Ken Krimstein
Culture Catch
Virtuosity comes with its own perils. Compound that with prodigy, and you're in some tricky waters. Too often flash substitutes for feeling, spectacle for connection, hoopla for art. Twenty-six-year-old Hungarian pianist Adam Gyorgy flirted with all of the above at his recent Carnegie Hall recital, but, happily, the marks of a true artist won out.
His chops are amazing, and we got fireworks galore, barn burners such as Liszt's Rhapsody No. 2 delivered with articulate aplomb. And if some of the more pensive pieces, like Petri's transcription of Bach's "Sheep May Safely Graze," didn't challenge the listener, it was all more than compensated for by Gyorgy's amazing reading of Chopin's never-ending journey that is the Ballade in G minor.
Maybe it was the sight of a lone Steinway anchoring the most hallowed stage in music-making, but the entire, full if not packed house, must have felt that this lanky, dark-suit clad, close-cropped Magyar lad was channeling Horowitz -- and beyond. If only his repertoire had strayed further beyond the crowd-pleasers. But there is not doubt that Gyorgy knows how to make a 12-foot concert grand sing, how to make the line flow and swell. An army of programmed computers couldn't compete, nor an orchestra, and when Gyorgy's in full throttle, he could even give Pink Floyd a run for the money...
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