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Music review: John Adams’ ‘Absolute Jest’ in San Francisco

When John Adams was a young composer and conductor in San Francisco in the early ’70s, he would often perform the experimental music of John Cage and other radicals, which was the hip thing to do at the time. But he has said that all that avant-garde business could leave him musically dissatisfied, and he’d go home and put on recordings of late Beethoven string quartets.

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    June 16, 2023

    Kansas City Symphony

    Helzberg Hall

    BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37

    with Michael Stern, conductor

    June 17, 2023

    Kansas City Symphony

    Helzberg Hall

    BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37

    with Michael Stern, conductor

    June 18, 2023

    Kansas City Symphony

    Helzberg Hall

    BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37

    with Michael Stern, conductor

NY Philharmonic

Artist-in-Residence: Emanuel Ax 2012/13.
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Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4
Brahms: Music For 2 Pianos
Haydn: Piano Sonatas
Liszt: Piano Sonata in B Minor
Mendelssohn: Piano Trios
Strauss: Enoch Arden

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Extract from masterclass given by Emanuel Ax on Beethoven Piano Sonatas and Variations. The student is Nicolas Van Poucke. The full masterclass is available on DVD from www.masterclassfoundation.org

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