Jeremy Denk
Pianist writer author of “every good boy does fine” nonesuch recording artist lover of many different sorts of music and New Mexican food
- one of the most wonderful piano lessons in recorded history is the opening of the franck quintet as played by cortot … astonishing rubato and color like entering a different spiritual zone, and climaxing with a spectacular cortot wipeout at the opening of the allegro youtu.be/tGrQRP2FOBI?...
- I would love to see this opera
- imagine how furious beethoven would be about this
- on a grey wintry morning in new york i am getting warmth from the hilarious story of magnificent lola montez scandalizing the inauguration of the long-delayed beethoven monument by dancing on the table, with a side plot of liszt’s colossal ego
- i really enjoyed writing this one
- beethoven had many many great virtues but I really don’t think he was this hot
- one of my favorite musicians in the world, what a joy it has been to work with him these last years, and to connect (in a way) back to my hungarian teachers, who we spent some time admiring together
- my old teacher, being charming and young and handsome www.facebook.com/reel/1530112...
- wow this is truly a work of art for our age
- Two serious musicians revisiting one of the classics
- decent view before a day of rehearsals
- “Beethoven unites, confounds, and makes no distinction between the tragic and the comic, the agreeable and the repulsive, the heroic and the howling, the most holy and the Harlequin” (Schubert, diary, 1816)
- don’t know why this looks so ominous
- Reading Foucault in the LAX Lyft shuttle is peak poser
- Not many airport bookstores have such a solid Foucault section
- Pretentious reading of the day
- a lesson in overdone music writing
- Halloween sf
- this is your occasional reminder that every musician and music-lover should own and read eta hoffmann’s life and opinions of the tomcat murr (link in thread)
- honolulu hotel room 546 am … thinking about the history of the diminished seventh chord
- On a groggy morning the allemande of the b flat partita felt so good
- Writing about Beethoven and fear
- After the storm, sf
- lol
- i decided to take on the bach jig! you’ll be relieved to know i did not name my essay “the jig is up” (link in thread)
- Walking around gorgeous Portland Maine this afternoon is like ingesting concentrated essence of fall
- I wrote some stuff I liked about Bach and getting out of bed (link in thread)
- i wrote about one of the most beautiful pieces i know (link in thread)
- we had fun creating a zany ives band chorus playlist, 70 minutes of who knows what will happen!
- still makes me happy to run into fans of the book ! i worked hard on it
- Hi @jeremydenk.bsky.social! I love your book, especially the audiobook with music! 👌I recommend it to all my classical music loving friends, and even bought a copy for our kids’ piano teacher! Thank you for sharing your story. The way you talk about music is simply beautiful.
- this is so dangerous and terrible and disgusting
