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career includes the complete Mozart
Some pieces are on his most recent
piano concertos, the complete
CD, Songs Without Words, while Bach's
Beethoven concertos and the complete
Goldberg Variations will be on his next
works
for piano and orchestra of
-
CD, to be released in March.
Robert
Schumann.
The recital is the first in a series of
"One of the people I met at
six UMS concerts commemorating the
Marlboro wanted to manage me, and
250th anniversary of the death of
he suggested that I enter an interna-
composer Johann Sebastian Bach
tional competition to see if I could do
(1685-1750).
the repertoire. As a result of [the Leeds
"I've spent a lot . of time trying to
International Piano Competition in
analyze Bach's scores," says Perahia,
1972], I had a lot of engagements and
52, whose first volume of Bach's
then
found myself as a professional
English Suites won the 1999 Grammy
pianist
at age 25."
for Best Instrumental Soloist
One
important mentor was
Performance and whose second vol-
Vladimir Horowitz.
ume has just been nominated for a
"Although [I met Mr. Horowitz]
Grammy. "As I got more into Bach
when I was 19 at the suggestion of
and more into baroque music, I began
Mr. Serkin, I was too scared to pursue
to love all that even more.
lessons, although I did see him occa-
"The Bach pieces fit in with my
other recordings
because I've always
done the works of
composers that I've
been enthusiastic
about. I think the
works are within a cer-
tain kind of classical
composition that
always has interested
me — classical and
expressive at the same
time, so they're not just
pristine classical."
Perahia, whose last
CD also celebrates the
works of Mendelssohn,
grew up in a Jewish
neighborhood in New
York, where he started
playing the piano as a
preschooler.
"My father loved
music and had a sub-
"I've spent a lot of time trying to analyze Bach's scores,"
scription to the
says
Perahia.
Metropolitan Opera,"
the acclaimed instru-
sionally," Perahia says. "Much, much
mentalist recalls. "My mother doesn't
later in my life, when I was 40, I start-
really respond to classical music, so he
ed working more seriously with him,
would take me [to the opera] with him.
and that was very moving for me and
The day after each program, I would
unforgettable."
sing some of the songs I heard, and he
In his travels around the world,
thought that maybe I should have .
Perahia has made stops in Israel, play-
piano lessons. He bought a [real] piano
ing with the Israel Philharmonic
and hired a neighborhood teacher, and
Orchestra and teaching master classes.
that's how I really got started."
"I was teaching in Jerusalem two
Perahia attended Mannes College
years ago, and I plan to go back next
of Music in New York, where he
year," he says. "I'm interested in all
majored in conducting and composi-
things Jewish because I value my her-
tion, and spent summers at Marlboro,
itage, and I enjoyed the students and
Vt., where he collaborated with musi-
the atmosphere. It was very interesting
cians such as Rudolph Serkin, Pablo
that the people attending were not
Casals and members of the Budapest
only musicians. They were scientists
Quartet.
and doctors, and this was very gratify-
"I just wanted to be in music and
ing."
did a lot of chamber music," explains
In a very different context, the
the pianist, whose 27-year recording

