Standing Room Only?
Soundcheck | May 3, 2010
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Go to nearly any Broadway house or concert hall on any given night, and you can see an audience jumping out of its seat for a standing ovation. But as New York Times cultural reporter Jesse McKinley explored in a recent article, the intensity of the ovation doesn't necessarily reflect the quality of the performance. McKinley joins host John Schaefer today to look at the question of whether standing ovations have gotten way out of hand. Also, 22-year-old pianist Jonathan Biss returns to the Soundcheck studio for a live performance. A former student of Leon Fleisher, he was a recipient of a 1999 Avery Fisher Career Grant and has since been racking up an impressive list of performance credits. In advance of his appearance next week at Carnegie Hall with the Staatskapelle Berlin under Daniel Barenboim, he discusses the art of piano playing—and career building—at a time when young virtuosos are seemingly a dime a dozen.
Additional Resources:
To read more about Jonathan Biss on NPR go here
Go to nearly any Broadway house or concert hall on any given night, and you can see an audience jumping out of its seat for a standing ovation. But as New York Times cultural reporter Jesse McKinley explored in a recent article, the intensity of the ovation doesn't necessarily reflect the quality of the performance. McKinley joins host John Schaefer today to look at the question of whether standing ovations have gotten way out of hand. Also, 22-year-old pianist Jonathan Biss returns to the Soundcheck studio for a live performance. A former student of Leon Fleisher, he was a recipient of a 1999 Avery Fisher Career Grant and has since been racking up an impressive list of performance credits. In advance of his appearance next week at Carnegie Hall with the Staatskapelle Berlin under Daniel Barenboim, he discusses the art of piano playing—and career building—at a time when young virtuosos are seemingly a dime a dozen.
Additional Resources:
To read more about Jonathan Biss on NPR go here
