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Chamber Music, International Version

Posted on May 19, 2026 by Wendy Lesser

There is a level of performance below which concerts at Carnegie Hall never fall, if the concert is presented under the official auspices of Carnegie (as almost all the ones I attend are). You are guaranteed a high quality of … Continue reading →

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Igor Levit in San Francisco

Posted on June 28, 2023 by Wendy Lesser

For those of us in the Bay Area who care about classical music, the last two weeks have mainly been taken up with Igor Levit’s residency at the San Francisco Symphony. I wrote about this marvelous pianist last fall, after hearing him perform all … Continue reading →

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A Reopened Carnegie Hall

Posted on November 7, 2021 by Wendy Lesser

On Thursday night I took a friend to Carnegie Hall to hear Leonidas Kavakos and Yuja Wang play a concert of Bach, Busoni, and Shostakovich. My friend hadn’t heard live music in nearly two years, and she was utterly thrilled to be back … Continue reading →

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A Month of Great Piano

Posted on November 10, 2018 by Wendy Lesser

The piano is not my instrument, normally. I don’t just mean I never learned to play it (though that too is true: my childhood music lessons were on the violin). What I really mean is that I don’t seek out piano concerts … Continue reading →

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