Anthony and Filomena Fiacco never dreamed when they planted a blue spruce in their front yard nearly 30 years ago that the tree would someday be on display in Albany as an official state holiday tree.
Emanuel Ax and Yefim Bronfman make powerful piano twosome
Sunday, November 16, 2008
GERALDINE FREEDMAN
Pianist Yefim Bronfman prefers to stay busy.
“I’ve got jet lag,” he said from New York City at the end of October. “The tour [with the Los Angeles Philharmonic] was only eight days, but it was far.”
Within days, he and pianist Emanuel Ax — his longtime friend, colleague and neighbor — would start rehearsing for their 13-city, two-piano U.S. concert tour. It began Nov. 5 in Syracuse and will end Nov. 23 in Virginia. Along the way, they’ll play on Tuesday at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall and on Friday at Carnegie Hall. It is the first time the two men have played a two-piano recital at either hall....
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