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...chose a middle-of-the-road player." So said one of the judges of the 1992 Naumburg International Piano Competition, which Awadagin Pratt won with a flourish. At Jordan Hall on Sunday, Pratt was weaving between lanes and hogging both shoulders...
...word about the pianist. He's big. Buff. With dreads. He sits lower at the piano than Glenn Gould did. It's often hard to count the "f"s in his fortes. That's Awadagin. In other words, after Maurizio Pollini's recital last month, it was "time for something completely different...
Before the second half of the program began, an honest audience member's appraisal might have run something like this: "Awadagin is musically intense, but not note-perfect." This held true for the Mussorgsky too, but the music making took place on a much higher plane...
...rife with up-and-coming virtuoso pianists, Awadagin Pratt stands out. Frequently pegged as the Glenn Gould of our age, he just may be...a Gould, that is, with dreadlocks and a flamboyantly jazzy stage presence...
...BankBoston Celebrity Series continues to bring the best performers, especially pianists, to the Boston area. Though keyboard buffs are no doubt already antsy for the November 16 Awadagin Pratt recital, it would be hard to imagine a better season opener (or box office draw) than the great Maurizio Pollini...
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