This incredible little video shows a solo performer’s worst nightmare living itself out on a rehearsal stage. Here, pianist Maria Joao Pires sits down to discover that she has prepared the wrong Mozart piano concerto for performance with conductor Riccardo Chailly.
(Thanks to Ramona Carmelly for sharing this.)
http://youtu.be/YI8kZd0TcFQ
John Terauds, Editor-Emeritus of Ludwig van Toronto, is currently a Divinity student at the University of Toronto and a church music director. He joined the Toronto Star in 1988, was the classical music critic from 2005 to 2012, and continues as a freelance critic for the paper. He is the co-author of Roy Thomson Hall: A Portrait, a book written with Toronto Star Colleague, William Littler.
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