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Sonatenabend at the Juilliard School
The Juilliard students are being forced to give public recitals, so I showed up at Paul Hall last night to be entranced by two hours of Beethoven sonatas for violin and piano. A break from Beethoven was provided by a rarely-heard Sarabande et Cortege for bassoon and piano by Henri Dutilleux, and at the end the brilliant William Wei (who has already won the Queen Elisabeth violin prize and is a concert performer in Asia and Europe but remains a modest Juilliard student in New York) astounded everyone with the Ravel Sonata for Violin and Piano, all three movements of which comprise nothing but hemi - demi - semi quavers in chromatics. It makes The Flight of the Bumble Bee sound like a dirge. He played from memory but had an Ipad on the stand with a foot controlled mouse which made me realize that from now on we will never see sheet music again.
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