Emanuel Ax
Emanuel Ax
Emanuel Axis a Grammy-winning American classical pianist. He is an internationally acclaimed performer, and a teacher on the faculty of the Juilliard School...
NationalityUkrainian
ProfessionPianist
Date of Birth8 June 1949
CityLviv, Ukraine
CountryUkraine
allowed composers expressing listeners respond trust
Most composers trust their listeners to respond at the right time, and if we feel like expressing approval, we should be allowed to, anytime!
disney hall inside silver truly
Disney Hall is truly astonishingly beautiful. There is something about those silver petals that just makes you want to be inside them.
welcome applause should
We should welcome applause whenever it comes.
arcane seems
We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud.
halloween scary different
Everyone is different. Sometimes it's very exciting; sometimes very scary.
reactions force audience
The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction.
los-angeles has-beens
I have been coming to Los Angeles since 1975 to perform.
concerts ends please
Even if you don't like a concert of mine, please, please applaud at the end anyway.
trying movement culprit
I have been trying to find out exactly when listeners and performers decided that applause between movements would not be allowed, but nobody seems to have been willing to admit that they were the culprit.
argue generally hard string time
Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have such a hard time just getting things right; arguing is for string players.
close middle music performers stage surrounded
The stage is close to being in the middle of the hall, so that the performers are surrounded by the listeners. I feel that we are all experiencing the music together.