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« Kyoto jujitsu | Main | The fiction conundrum » Friday, January 19, 2007Lang Lang takes BostonI've been doing some concert-going, of the classical variety, in New York, and I thought I'd share some thoughts, some of it helpful for the Boston enthusiast. First order of business is to let you know that the young piano phenom Lang Lang comes to Boston for one concert only, Sun. Jan. 28, in recital as part of the Bank of America Celebrity Series. I saw Lang Lang perform with the wonderful Bavarian Radio Symphony at Carnegie Hall in November. I felt that his physical movement on stage was no more distracting than other intense performers such as Yo-Yo Ma or Joshua Bell. (This has been a consistent criticism of Lang Lang.) Very knowledgeable listeners didn't care for his playing -- "I don't know what that was, but it wasn't Beethoven" -- but I, who have musical experience, too, was transfixed. For Boston exiles in New York, the BSO comes to Carnegie Feb. 12 to play a program of only the giant piece "La Damnation de Faust," by Berlioz. I don't see that the violinist Christian Tetzlaff or the young cellist Alisa Weilerstein are coming to Boston this season, but when they do, go see them. Posted by Evan Hughes at 10:18 AM
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