The Washington Post, February 16th, 1987
Soviet virtuoso Lazar Berman, a powerhouse pianist if there ever was one, brought his dynamo dynamics and decibels to the Kennedy Center Concert Hall Saturday night on his first American tour in seven years. Berman is a great Russian bear of a man, with an unflinching poker face. And that pretty much describes his playing as well. Little that he does is either subtle or seductive. Regardless of what he plays, he is direct and unrelenting. But my, does he ever know how to make the keyboard growl! And he seems infused with the Russian penchant for excess. Saturday night, the normal 10:30 p.m. co...
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