Jeremy Denk

Jeremy Denk is playing Saturday night, 7:30, in our own Miniaci Theater.

Denk is a brilliant pianist. He played last week with Micheal Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony; he's been touring for a year with Joshua Bell.

The blog connection? He runs a blog called think denk that's... well, don't take my word for it, read what Alex Ross says in this week's The New Yorker:

Go... to Think Denk, the blog of the pianist Jeremy Denk, a superb musician who writes with arresting sensitivity and wit. The central predicament of Denk’s existence is that he is struggling to master the great works of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries while meandering through a twenty-first-century landscape of airports, Starbucks outlets, and chain hotels.

Ross missed one of my favorite Denk posts, Bimbo Genius, a musical take on Miss Teen South Carolina:

The proper vehicle for addressing this text is musical, not semantic or grammatical (though it refers to the semantic and grammatical in order to create its pseudo-musical paradigms). It begins innocently enough, with seeming Mozartean grace:

Antecedent phrase: I personally believe the US Americans are unable to do so…
(moving from tonic to dominant)

.. and so on.

Hope to see you there!