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By Jacob Stockinger
Even professional musicians can find practicing to be an ordeal.
“Ax is back,” says the publicity.
That’s because world-famous pianist Emanuel Ax (below, in a photo by Lisa-Marie Mazzucco) is back in Madison to help open John DeMain’s 25th anniversary season with the Madison Symphony Orchestra.
Ax will perform the monumental and fiendishly difficult Piano Concerto No. 2 by Johannes Brahms tonight, Saturday night and Sunday afternoon.
It is a piece that Ax performed live some 200 times before he would agree to recording it.
Here is a link to more about the MSO concerts with the famous pianist:
And here is a link to a story about how Ax, who describes himself as a slow learner and who teaches students at the Juilliard School in New York City, practices. It contains his own tips and also talks about special software he uses to detect and correct wrong notes that is available to students and amateurs :
https://lifehacker.com/how-emanuel-ax-makes-piano-practice-less-of-a-slog-1826402441
And as a follow-up, here is a short example of the many YouTube videos of master classes with Emanuel Ax. This one small passage in a sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven gives you a good idea of the hard work that goes into the 50-minute concerto by Brahms:
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I wish you had put the date of the Pro-Arte concert in your blog. You said “Friday night”. We got to Mills Hall to find a brass concert playing on 9/28. A disgruntled couple at Oakwood West.
Comment by Gene Dewey — September 28, 2018 @ 8:56 pm
You might want to check out the calendar feature at UW Music: https://www.music.wisc.edu/events/
Comment by fflambeau — September 29, 2018 @ 12:38 am
Good story over at lifehacker. Thanks for the link.
It is fascinating that Maestro Ax would also like to play the timpani! But I guess not surprising in that a piano is also a kind of percussion instrument.
Comment by fflambeau — September 28, 2018 @ 12:10 am