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...cousins, That's what I believe, Because we're children of Adam and Eve... But we're kissin' cousins 'n that'll make it all right. --Elvis Presley song...
...course no grandfather's tale would be complete without some moralizing. Sept 11 "left marks on the economy that will not soon fade," and in an irrational-exuberance moment Greenspan reminded his audience that economic forecasting - and its kissin' cousin, investing - has been made even more difficult by the "major uncertainty that we all must deal with these days: The specter of further terrorist incidents on American soil. It simply is not possible to predict whether there will be any such incidents or to forecast their possible consequences for the economy...
After intermission came Modest Mussorgky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, that perennial favorite among pianists and orchestras (in Ravel’s orchestration). What can be offered to this piece that hasn’t already been done? Not much, but Kissin played the work like he owned it. Particularly effective was his powerful left hand in the “Bydlo (Oxen)” movement, as well as the simple lyricism of the opening “Promenade” theme and later in the “Con Mortuis in Lingua Mortua?...
Understandably, the audience did not let Kissin go without playing an encore, and he generously gave us four. As if the overwhelming virtuosity of Pictures was not enough, the encores were transcendental displays of Romantic pianism. First, he played Balakirev’s arrangement of a Glinka song, “The Lark,” then offered Liszt’s “Rigoletto” paraphrase of Verdi. Both demonstrated the utmost in fluidity and lyricism—in Kissin’s hands, the hideously difficult becomes the sublimely simple, even if the material is third...
...EVGENY KISSIN...