--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" <jr_...@...> wrote: > > You've done excellent work in researching this clip out of > the web.
Not that hard! I hadn't heard of Li, so I took a look at his Wikipedia page, then checked out a couple of its links, one of which led to the clip. > We don't often see how much work is made in preparing for > a concert. This clip shows the talent of Yundi Li. > > Years ago Seiji Ozawa was the music director of the San > Francisco Symphony. He sure gets around these days. He's been getting around for decades. It's amazing how many top-flight orchestras he's directed. Toward the end of his tenure with San Francisco, he became the music director of the Boston Symphony, which is where I first became aware of him. My sister, an amateur singer, had joined the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, which regularly performed with the BSO at Tanglewood and in Boston (we were living in a Boston suburb at the time). She was the administrative person in the chorus for some years and had a lot of contact with Ozawa, arranging rehearsal and performance details and interacting with him socially on occasion (no, that isn't a euphemism--I mean cocktail parties and so on!). So we almost felt, through her, as though he'd become a friend of the family. And we all were huge fans of his musically. I spent a few days visiting her up at Tanglewood one summer and got to meet him briefly after one concert. Anyway, it was a surprise and a great treat to find that he was featured in the Yundi Li documentary. I sent my sister the URL for the clip. The appreciative relationship, personal and musical, that the clip shows between Li and Ozawa, young phenom and grizzled veteran, was charming, I thought. There's almost half a century's difference in their ages. > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > Superb, thanks! > > > > If you're interested, here's a six-or-so-minute segment > > from a documentary that was made about him, showing him > > in rehearsal and backstage preparing for his debut with > > the Berlin Philharmonic playing a Shostakovich concerto > > (about as different from the Chopin as can be!). It > > features several extended interactions betwen Li and > > conductor Seiji Ozawa: > > > > http://www.thestar.com/videozone/346243 > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" <jr_esq@> wrote: > > > > > > To All: > > > > > > Yundi Li, a young classical pianist from China, plays a dreamlike > > > rendition of this classic piece. > > > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvm2ZsRv3C8&feature=related
