In today’s Orange County Register online, I review last night’s Pacific Symphony performance with conductor Justin Brown and pianist Lise de la Salle. Here’s an excerpt.
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A pair of guest performers made their debuts with the Pacific Symphony on Thursday night, one half the age of the other, neither of them old. Both own long and impressive résumés; the pianist’s didn’t even fit in the program, cutting off mid-sentence at the end of a three columns of accolades. Maybe it would have gone on for pages.
But program bios are always tough to gauge. Every performer comes out sounding the same – the equal of Toscanini, Heifetz, Rubinstein and Superman. You can only know the true substance of a given bio after the performance at hand.
Click here to read the whole thing, or pick up a copy of tomorrow’s Register.
Classical Life 