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International Herald Tribune, March 27, 2003 Midori, McDonald
Concert a Thing of Beauty Midori and her longtime collaborator, Robert McDonald, brought a program of extraordinary challenge and quality to the Van Wezel on Tuesday. Too often, music superstars
tour with hackneyed programs, playing down to the audiences they expect
to find outside the major urban centers. Midori did no such thing, treating
Sarasota to the highest level of her art. One rarely finds
the music of Anton Webern and Alfred Schnittke in local concerts, alas.
To hear both represented by compositions of compelling beauty, balanced
by a seldom- heard piece by Edvard Grieg and the monumental "Kreutzer"
sonata of Beethoven, was a privilege. |
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