Three Lasting Impressions…..

Last week was inspiring, surprising and also very sobering, as events in Los Angeles, Springfield and Fort Worth gave me a perspective from the global, local and highly personal aspects of what I do and who I relate to.  A celebration of renewal, the linking to an icon (well sort of) and the passing of someone treasured……

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Cliburn Soundoff! – Conlon speaks/Zhang dresses/Chopin Compare/Bray/Yang

The heat is definitely on with an incredible night of music making, this thing is too close to call!  Part 1 of my interview of James Conlon, an excerpt from Haochen Zhang and Mozart 20, a comparison of the same two spots in Chopin 1 from Bozhanov and Tsujii (this you will only get here), Buddy Bray who is inside with the Jury and Joyce Yang 2005 silver medalist here to check out the new crop…listen!

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