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...with his instrument and so is more at the mercy of circumstance. He must perform on whatever piano happens to be in the hall when he arrives: in the past, these have included an out-of-tune upright and a piano with no pedals. When not performing with the trio. Pressler goes home to Bloomington, Indiana, where he is a professor at Indiana University. He keeps an active schedule of engagements with such orchestras as the Cleveland, the Philadelphia, and the New York Philharmonic. He has also appeared with such ensembles as the Julliard and the Guarneri string quartets...
...their first tour. Each of the three brings his own insight to every performance: after 25 years, they have developed enough familiarity and confidence to follow one another's inspirations as they occur. The result is an ever-new sound on stage. Greenhouse comments. "When we play the Ravel Trio for our 30th anniversary, it won't sound anything like the way we played it on our 25th...
...beautifully seasoned wood of Sanders Theater affords a sense of dignity, and of majesty. You sit quiet, at one with the sell-out crowd around you: all are mesmerized, transformed if you will, by the beauty of what they hear. On stage, the Beaux Arts Trio performs the world's greatest chamber music, with a virtuosity attainable only by a very few individual musicians, and by no other piano trio in existence...
Such intimate knowledge, of course, comes only as a result of spending a tremendous amount of time rehearsing and performing together. Indeed, the Beaux Arts Trio has been together for quite awhile: this season marks its 25th anniversary. The group was started in 1955 as sort of an experiment among three friends--Greenhouse. Pressler and violinist Daniel Guilet. That first season proved quite surprising: instead of the anticipated eight or so concerts, they wound up playing 80. Upon Guilet's retirement in 1968, Cohen joined the Beaux Arts after ten years as a violinist for the distinguished Julliard String Quartet...
That the music of the Beaux Arts Trio always sounds original and never tired is a tribute to their endless devotion and energy for in the span of over 4000 concerts, they have played every piece in their repertoire many hundreds of times. Still, the trio rehearses before every concert, always listening for new interpretations, discovering new relationships with the music. "Rehearsals are the only time we ever have a divergence of ideas," says Greenhouse. "Occasionally it may get a little tense, especially when one person really tries to push his ideas on the others." On stage, he explains, there...