calimac: (Haydn)
calimac ([personal profile] calimac) wrote2012-06-16 02:36 pm

concert review: Déjà vu, see: Déjà vu

Last week, my editors sent me to San José to review: a Sibelius symphony, a Rachmaninoff piano concerto played by a young Chinese pianist, and a delicate piece by the miniaturist Edvard Grieg. The encore was Shostakovich's arrangement of "Tea for Two."

This week, my editors sent me to San Francisco to review: a Sibelius symphony, a Rachmaninoff piano concerto played by a young Chinese pianist, and a delicate piece by the miniaturist Gabriel Fauré. The encore was Art Tatum's arrangement of "Tea for Two."

[identity profile] irontongue.livejournal.com 2012-06-16 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Ahahaha.

I would have gone to SFS this week, except that I saw Nixon in China last Friday, the Philly on Saturday, and attended six of the seven Ojai North programs. Eight performances in one week is my limit.

On the subject of encores, after playing the two-piano version of Le Sacre du Printemps, Leif Ove Andsnes and Marc-Andre Hamelin played the Circus Polka for a Young Elephant.