Not every piano recital is just some guy or gal at a bench.<\/p>\n
Alexander Tutunov’s Friday night piano recital began with a sight you don’t see every day: a six-handed waltz performance. That means that there were three pianists on the same bench sharing space, coordinating and playing a single song.<\/p>\n
“We thought to start with something that would be like dessert,” Tutunov said.<\/p>\n
Tutunov’s two hands were augmented by Jon Hays, organizer of an ongoing piano series and former student of Tutunov<\/a>, and Kyle Farley-Robinson, who will play the next installment of the series in February.<\/p>\n Hays said the idea was a lighthearted and unusual way to start the recital, which is part of a monthly series at the Juneau Arts & Culture Center.<\/p>\n [Juneau favorite shines light on B-Liszt composers<\/a>]<\/ins><\/p>\n The playful tone carried through when Tutunov performed a solo recital.<\/p>\n The main course of the recital featured works by Franz Schubert and Franz Liszt, including a piece Tutunov said might be the “Mount Everest” of classical music, Liszt’s Sonata in B minor. It’s about 30 minutes of continuous music with no movements.<\/p>\n Some theorize it is an interpretation of the Faust <\/a>legend<\/a>, which concerns a man selling his soul to the devil in exchange for ultimate power and knowledge.<\/p>\n While Tutunov said that interpretation isn’t a certainty, it does help inform his performance of the sonata.<\/p>\n The music alternated between loud and soft, melodic and cacophonous. Over the course of a half hour, it oscillated between passive and arresting.<\/p>\n “Now and then, the music just takes you off into the clouds,” Tutunov said.<\/p>\n When he finished the half-hour piece, first there was quiet, but soon the audience was on its feet to applaud Tutunov, who played one more short piece to close out the night.<\/p>\n The conclusion of the recital also received a standing ovation.<\/p>\n \u2022 Contact arts and culture reporter Ben Hohenstatt at (907)523-2243 or bhohenstatt@juneauempire.com. Follow him on Twitter @BenHohenstatt.<\/b><\/p>\n Here’s something you don’t see or hear every day. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":474,"featured_media":41752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,116,175],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-41751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","tag-ccw","tag-ccw-features","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/474"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41751"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=41751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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