In a career that has spanned almost 30 years, Mitsuko Uchida (born 1948) has earned her title as one of the greatest classical pianists of the 20th century. She is most readily associated with her abi...
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The word that comes to mind when watching the white-maned, 79-year-old conductor Colin Davis is _ youthful.One has only to close one's eyes to hear that this British musician with more than a half ...
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“Round fingers for Mozart, flat fingers for Chopin,” my piano teacher used to say. To a 10-year-old aspiring Rubinstein, these instructions made sense—at least as they helped me p...
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“Round fingers for Mozart, flat fingers for Chopin,” my piano teacher used to say. To a 10-year-old aspiring Rubinstein, these instructions made sense—at least as they helped me p...
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Last week, New York lost a great eccentric. Her name was Kazuko. You may well have encountered her. Maybe you saw her at Barneys and wondered who she was. I’m talking about that tiny exotic...
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One of the great pleasures of writing this column is to be proved wrong. A few years ago, I fretted about the demise of the piano recital. Conservatories were turning out keyboard virtuosos by the ...
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Mitsuko Uchida
Colin Davis, 79, leads N.Y. Philharmonic
