Pianist Simone Dinnerstein plays Cohen Variations
Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2012 1:50 am
Pianist Simone Dinnerstein is an ambassador for Bach
BY STEVE PAUL // KansasCity.com, Jan 20, 2012
BY STEVE PAUL // KansasCity.com, Jan 20, 2012
At Yardley Hall she’ll play the two Bach partitas (though not the Schubert) from “Something Almost Being Said” on a program of varied moods and impulses.
First she’ll wrap a Chopin nocturne and a Brahms intermezzo around a new work, written for her by Daniel Felsenfeld, that’s based on “Suzanne,” a folkie classic by Leonard Cohen.
The “Cohen Variations” “really turned out beautifully,” Dinnerstein said. “They are really interesting played between Chopin and Brahms. These are three introverted pieces of music that are different from each other.”