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Mozart, Trickster

By Jeremy Denk | Published: April 5, 2009
Without introduction, Mozart’s K. 533 leaps into being: … and one of the many things one could love about this idea is that it says thanks but no thanks, I don’t really need or want to be harmonized.
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Warum?

By Jeremy Denk | Published: April 4, 2009
For reasons that cannot be fathomed, I will be a member of the vlogging squad covering the YouTube Symphony Orchestra “summit” in New York City. Yes, I am working for “teh Google.”  (Sell your Google stock immediately.)   I hope you will find my first foray into video interesting, if not at the intellectual level (???) perhaps of [...]
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Leveraged

By Jeremy Denk | Published: March 19, 2009
NEW YORK, Mar. 19, 2009. This week brought fresh revelations that the Boston Symphony, among many leading organizations, is heavily leveraged in atonal credit swaps, more than the most pessimistic theorists had previously forecast. “It’s astounding,” one board member remarked (who preferred to remain anonymous), “one half of the orchestra is this solid, unimpeachable Brahms [...]
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A Longish Piece on the Greatness of Schumann, Whose Greatness Was Never In Doubt

By Jeremy Denk | Published: March 18, 2009
I headed to the Y, alone, to “get my Schumann on.” I got marooned in the middle of row O: singles limbo. Sorry, stumbling over knees, squeezing, sorry, saying good thing I didn’t have dinner yuk yuk, thinking, don’t give me that sour look, lady. Applause, applause. After a bit, I noticed the woman [...]
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