Cliburn Soundoff! – Post Cliburn/Vacatello/Piano issues/Zhang/Wu – Audio!

Yesterday was the last full day of rehearsals and tonight the performances begin.  My continuing chat with Richard focuses on the grueling schedule and how that helps a Pianist post Cliburn.  I was able catch finalist Haochen Zhang (who is 19 today!) asking The USA chief Steinway technician Ron Coners about an issue with the keys.  I then interviewed Ron who used to be the tech for Horowitz!   More excerpts from rehearsals with James Conlon 1 on 1 including the practicalities of tempo and collaboration…listen below!

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Cliburn Soundoff! – Vacatello/Son/Rodzinski/Tsujii/Conlon/Bozhanov – Audio

From the Cliburn, more from my chat with Richard focusing on how new media can affect an artist’s performance, candid clips from 4 of the finalists including a couple of excerpts from their 1 on 1 rehearsals with James Conlon who arrived yesterday plus an interesting clip with finalist Yeol Eum Son and Cliburn general manager Maria Guralnik about the practicalities of being a non US resident about to be flooded with concert engagements.  Some of this you will not see or hear on the web-cast!….

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