i met garrick ohlsson tonight! amazing piano player - i really miss good piano playing, it's so hard to find solid but people who reach beyond the normal expectations of musicality and finesse. on top of beethoven and brahms, he also played some smaller less known composers (korte, smetana) that wasn't as interesting, but then for the encores he played chopin. i think chopin's definitely his forte (har har)... it felt so easy, and it came spilling out of his heart into his fingers. it was thrilling to watch.
he wrote on my card, "To Jolene, Thank you!" he was really nice.
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wow you met him! I heard him play the Beethoven 4th concerto at Avery Fisher, I didn't get to meet him though. The clarinet player squeaked in the 2nd movement, that's what I remember. I call Ohlssohn the "Pavarotti" of the piano...really powerful right?
i also saw him perform many years ago with gideon...in SF, he played Prokofiev piano concerto. wow!
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