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
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.
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.
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!
A lot of it just has to do with luck, serendipity.
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.
couple few leave people
If you have a few students, you really need a couple of days. I don't think it's right to leave people on their own and not give them enough time.
audience response ifs
If there were no rules about when to applaud, we in the audience would have the right response almost always.
mean likes should
All of us love applause, and so we should - it means that the listener likes us!
silence wish sometimes
Sometimes I wish that applause would come just a bit later, when it is so beautifully hushed that I feel like holding my breath in the silence of the end.
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.
concerts ends please
Even if you don't like a concert of mine, please, please applaud at the end anyway.
play wonderful feels
How wonderful it is to play with someone you feel very close to.
path
Everybody makes his path differently.
los-angeles has-beens
I have been coming to Los Angeles since 1975 to perform.