The holidays provide a suitable excuse to do a lot of things you wouldn’t normally do, especially when the New Year is around the corner and atonement for overindulgence is no more difficult than a three-word resolution. Here on Hammered! – Q2’s hour-long contemporary piano showcase – the holidays mean heavy on the Olivier Messiaen, and heavy on the Messiaen means the gluttonous holiday classic (at least at Q2) Vingt regards sur l’enfant-Jesus. It goes without saying, however, that “play less Messiaen” is a resolution we will never keep.
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