Tomorrow he returns to Carnegie Hall, this time in its more modest Weill Recital Hall. He will play works by Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Bach and Rachmaninoff.
I was classically trained as a pianist and that innately teaches you how to write a pop song, because when you learn Bach inversions, it has the same sort of modulation s between the chord s.
Yo-Yo ma played a Bach Sarabande, Placido Domingo sang the "Panis Angelicus", and Boston Cardinal Sean o 'malley led the Roman Catholic service.
But when she returned several days later and was overcharged again, Bach decided that a refund wouldn't cut it.
I hear Bach now and think: oh, yes, I used to love that. Before.
He also displays a penchant for angular harmonies and intricate melodies reminiscent of Bach (Sondheim has claimed that he "loves Bach" but his favorite period is Brahms to Stravinsky). [6].
Then came Yo-Yo Ma ’76, swaying and ecstatic, playing sonorous Bach on his cello. Afterward, President Drew Faust joined him on the tented stage in front of the Memorial Church.
The story is interspersed with digressions on the lives of Bach and Casals, which deftly reveal how contemporary politics shaped their music, and buffeted their careers.
