Lloyd Richards: There comes a time that a piano realizes that it has not written a concerto. Margo Channing: And you, I take it, are the Paderewski who plays his concerto on me, the piano?
In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity.
V: It is to Madame Justice that I dedicate this concerto.
It's nice not to have the majority of the attention on me like there is when playing a concerto with an orchestra.
Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?'
There are many collaborations I'd like to explore. One is to co-write a rap concerto with Eminem.
After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer.
If I can add, say, 10 great new violin concertos to the repertoire before I'm done, that will be truly exciting.
Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time.
I don't believe that a lot of the things I hear on the air today are going to be played for as long a time as Coleman Hawkins records or Brahms concertos.
At the end of the competition, I played the Liszt concerto and I felt my head was on the block. Well, I won.
There's a million people who can go out and play the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto brilliantly, but we're the only ones who can do 'A Little Nightmare Music.'
I'd forget the piece just before I went out to do the concerto, the panic was too great. This was not anything that gave me pleasure. This was fulfilling somebody else's dream.
When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don't feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to work out all the little problems. Once that's all done, trust comes in.
A large part of my work has been collaborating with composers; I think we've commissioned about 140 pieces now, a lot of them percussion concertos.
I usually listen to the same thing over and over again: Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D Major. And Leonard Cohen.
The way it works: The orchestra plays a few selections of its own and I terminate the first part of the programme on piano, usually with a movement from a Mozart concerto.
This kind of prelude was succeeded by the concerto itself which he executed with a degree of spirit and firmness that no one has ever pretended to equal.
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I vacuumed my piano, hoping to soak up the last of the concertos. I should sell musical sponges, for the lover in the kitchen in all of us.
He would much rather hear a piano being demolished by illegal bulldozers than a Mozart concerto
