RÉMI GENIET, PIANO Sunday, 25 February, 2018, 3:00 PM Berger Performing Arts Center - Tucson, AZ RÉMI GENIET, PIANO - Sunday, 25 February, 2018, 3:00 PM Arizona Friends of Chamber Music - Piano and Friends Berger Performing Arts Center - Tucson, AZ PREVIEW: For this latest round of young guns – up and coming piano virtuosi in their mid-20s – there is more or less of a formula for programming their solo recitals. It goes like this: 1) open with a romantic transcription of Bach; 2) play a Classical Era masterpiece, up through Beethoven, preferably bravura; 3) place the meatiest content just after Intermission, and; 4) breathe fire in the finale. That was the strategy of Behzod Abduraimov (26 years old, at the time) in October, 2016 – the last AFCM 'Piano and Friends' soloist – and will be again this Sunday, when French prodigy Rémi Geniet (age, 25) takes his seat at the Steinway 'D'. If the piano virtuoso only gets one shot, and we only get one listen, thi
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