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On April 24, pianist and series favorite Tzu yi Chen canada goose outlet returns for a free concert from noon to 1:00 PM. She will present Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibitionas well as music by W. A. Mozart in the Grand Gallery. Join us to hear great music canada goose canada goose uk shop outlet store uk and to learn canada goose outlet canada goose outlet toronto cheap canada goose uk factory more about Tzu yi’s upcoming Carnegie Hall performance in October. Thank you to sponsors buy canada goose jacket Malcolm and Ruth Crocker.

The canada goose uk black friday first week Tzu yi Chen played for A canada goose outlet nyc Little Lunch Music in 2011, she performed Beethoven. It was the 32 Variations in C Minor. She happened to also be on the program the following week, performing Beethoven again, his Sonata No. 15. Not sure canada goose outlet uk which, but I can remember that canada goose outlet online uk one of those was my first time having the experience of feeling like I was inside a piece of music. The sounds became visual, and I was able to look around me and understand what I was seeing.

It turned out not to be a unique canada goose outlet parka experience for me with Tzu yi’s playing. She has been back several times and has become a series favorite, drawing some of our biggest crowds and developing her own fan base in our community.

On Thursday, she will return to perform the well known piece by the Russian canada goose coats composer Modest Mussorgsky,Pictures at an Exhibition.

Mussorgsky wrote Picturesin 1874, at a time when many Russian artists and intellectuals were becoming more and more concerned with the power of the Russian buy canada goose jacket cheap royalty and their oppression of the common people. “It’s so important for him to put the Russian people’s elements in his music,” said Tzu yi. “The earth, the people, the children, the life. It’s so canada goose black friday sale real.”

Tzu yi will also perform Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s 9 Variations on a Minuet by Jean Pierre Duport. She said that during Mozart’s travels performing in the courts of Europe, he met Duport, a composer himself. Mozart composed these variations as a tribute to Duport, and likely as a way for to show canada goose outlet uk sale off Mozart’s own superior talents.

In 2013, Tzu yi was chosen by Distinguished Concerts International New York to perform for its Artist Series. If you happen to be in New York, her concert is scheduled for October 11, 2014, at 8:00 PM in Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall.

It’s not only practice, practice, practice, to get to Carnegie Hall. Tzu yi has discovered that it’s also learning about promotion, raising money, and anticipating the expectations of what will be canada goose outlet sale a young, intellectual New York City audience canada goose jacket outlet with discerning tastes.

She is naturally nervous about it, but not so much about playing canada goose black friday sale well. She believes that when she performs, she reveals herself to the world through a piece of music. At the same time, the experience reveals the music itself, which up to the point of performance is only notes on a page. Tzu yi feels a lot of responsibility to the composer to present the true intent of the piece.

“Somehow, you need to give it to the audience,” Tzu yi said. A performance is where the music becomes “out of your control” she said. “It’s exciting!”

A musician himself, Patrick McCurry coordinates A Little Lunch Music and occasionally performs for the series and with the canada canadian goose jacket goose outlet new york city museum Thursday evening jazz https://www.drachen-spiele.de group, Cullars Improvisational Rotation. He blogs about the arts in our community.