{"id":1445,"date":"2014-03-19T10:23:41","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T17:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/?p=1445"},"modified":"2014-03-19T10:23:41","modified_gmt":"2014-03-19T17:23:41","slug":"the-irreverent-genius-of-jeremy-denk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2014\/03\/the-irreverent-genius-of-jeremy-denk.html","title":{"rendered":"The Irreverent Genius of Jeremy Denk"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The classical pianist Jeremy Denk has just won the Avery Fisher Prize, which caps what’s been a very good year<\/a> or so for him. (He’s working on a memoir for Random House, among other things.)<\/p>\n

I met Denk in 2010 and was immediately impressed with playing and thinking. (His commitment to Ives was palpable.)\u00a0 My story<\/a> looks \"Denk_Ives_Cover-150x150\"<\/a>at his musicality as well as his blog.<\/p>\n

The blog often comes to Denk during the six or so hours he rehearses each day. “I don’t set out to be contrarian — but you’re stuck there, next to the instrument, for hours and hours in your apartment, practicing. And inevitably, there’s an amazing amount of stuff that hits your brain — about what you like about the piece, or whatever it is which wouldn’t be appropriate for program notes. And also these loose and slightly disturbing thoughts — about life and playing what’s now this ancient and way outdated music, and how they interact.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Looking forward to what he comes up with at the Ojai festival.<\/p>\n

ALSO: Los Angeles’s own Calder Quartet, a wonderful young group I profiled a few years back, won an Avery Fisher career grant this week. Here’s my story<\/a>, which tried to get at the chemistry of a string quartet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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