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“I find your playing to be
unfailingly graceful and affecting. You are a real artist, which is also
made clear by your book...It is a model of its kind, touching and clever
and invaluable as a chronicle of musical self-exploration.”
MICHAEL KIMMELMAN, The New York Times
“Listening
to Montparker play Bach, hearing the sense and emotion she brings to the
score, one can understand how making music may be its own reward.”
PETER GOODMAN, Newsday
“I have been listening to
the recorded performances on your CD and send you a rapture of thanks
for the elation and pleasure your playing gives me. The music making is
wonderful! Your phrasing is so beautiful that I found myself constantly
going back to re-hear the music several times. And you play with such
fire and involvement—I never heard the Chopin Fantasy played with such
abandon. Everything glows. It is clearly playing that comes from the
heart---and it reaches the hearts of your audience….the spontaneity and
warmth of your personality also shine in your playing.”
PAUL SCHENLY, Cleveland
Institute of Music, Piano Chair
"I want to tell you how much
I have admired your CD...Your
performance of the {Chopin} F minor Fantaisie with its refined sweep
(this is not an oxymoron!), the grace of the mazurkas, and the elegance
of your Bach. You are one fine pianist!"
HAROLD C. SCHONBERG,
The New York Times
"Montparker performs Mozart, Schubert, Chopin and Ravel on her CD [in her
children’s book] Polly and the Piano. What's surprising about the disc
is that it does not speak down to children: It is absolutely adult
music, played superbly, which is something children almost always
respond to in a more engaged way than grown-ups expect."
PETER DOBRIN, Music Critic, Philadelphia Inquirer
"I
enjoyed your whole CD as much as your superb Mozart...the Schubert,
Chopin,----everywhere I appreciated the beautiful sound and it was also
technically remarkable. Bravo!"
PETER
FRANKL, pianist. Professor of Piano, Yale University
"Your Brahms’ Op. 116 was truly an ideal performance: so large in
thought and sonority, so free but without excess. Really terrific in
every way! I’ve played the opus and would have been pleased to have done
it so well! "
MOREY
RITT, pianist. Professor of Piano, Queens College, C.U.N.Y.
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