Pianists from Verge Ensemble give powerful performance at the Smithsonian

Sept 15, 2014

“It’s enough of a treat to hear Jenny Lin, Lura Johnson or Audrey Andrist perform — but to have all three pianists on the same stage, as they were on Sunday at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, is just a spectacular abundance of talent…  Johnson’s riveting account of Prokofiev’s “Sonata No. 7, Op. 83,” though, really stole the show. It’s a complex, subversive work, written in 1942 after the arrest and subsequent death of a friend of the composer’s, and Johnson looked unflinchingly into its anguished depths…. Johnson and Andrist gave [Rite of Spring] a thundering performance, capturing the jagged rhythms and driving, elemental power, and by the end you half expected the piano to be in pieces on the floor…”

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