The pianist was received with reasonably warm applause, but it didn’t last long enough to draw an encore – which ought to get his attention. He’s a pianist of prodigious gifts, and he’s too good not to do better, to move beyond the music’s challenges and into the realm of its soul.
via Sparks but no flame: Pianist Dejan Lazic at Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater.
Whose truth is right: the composer’s or the critic’s? And more critically, who gets to decide?