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Richard Be Goode

Roll over, Chuck Berry, dig this
Beethoven, Bach and Chopin.

SUZANNE CHESSLER
Special to the Jewish News

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important for developing style," says
Goode, married 14 years to violinist
Marcia Weinfeld, who will join him
for concerts next season.
The pianist, who acknowledges his
Jewish heritage but is not observant,
looks forward to the release of a new
recording featuring more Beethoven.
He has made more than two dozen
recordings of pieces by various com-
posers with a range from solo and
chamber works to lieder and concerti.
In 1993, Nonesuch released a 10-CD
set of his complete Beethoven sonata
cycle, the first by an American pianist.

ichard Goode will be sit-
ting at the piano for his
upcoming Michigan con-
cert, but he will be think-
ing dance. His program, sponsored by
the Chamber Music Society of
Detroit, features dance music by Bach,
Chopin and Beethoven.
Goode, appearing May 19 at the
Seligman Performing Arts Center on
the campus of Detroit Country Day
School, gave a lot of thought to his
selections and the way they comple-
ment each other.
"I've always loved the dance suites
of Bach, and I play them as much as
I can," says Goode, 57, who has per-
formed with the Detroit Symphony
Orchestra. "I had the idea of playing
two diverse ones and pairing them
with works by Chopin and
Beethoven.
"When I do a program, it's mostly
because I love the pieces, and I like
showing that Chopin was raised on
Bach and Mozart."
Goode, in his second performance
for the Chamber Music Society,
appeared in 1997 with soprano
Dawn Upshaw, a collaboration he
continues this season for other
engagements on a schedule that
takes him to San Francisco and
Cleveland as well as England and
Austria.
Richard Goode performs a concert for
Goode, who is based in New York, Chamber Music Society of Detroit.
spends a large part of the year tour-
ing and allowing for recording time.
"Because I did a set of the piano
Since 1989, he has devoted summers
sonatas, I'm looking at the other
to the Marlboro Music School and
pieces," says Goode, who has won a
Festival in Vermont, where he is artis-
Grammy Award for a recording with
tic co-director with Mitsuko Uchida.
clarinetist Richard Stoltzman, a
"I get as involved with the students
Chamber Music Society headliner in
as one can possibly be, playing in
December.
groups, listening to groups and trying
"There's something very individual
to unknot some of the tangle of prob-
about each of the Beethoven works.
lems that emerge," says Goode, who
It's like he started anew every time he
wrote." ❑
began his piano playing at age 6, went
on to study at the Mannes College of
Music and the Curtis Institute and
Richard Goode performs 8 p.m.
launched his career with solo recitals
Saturday, May 19, at the
and chamber music.
Seligman Performing Arts Center,
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