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Article: Ohlsson: This Time With Feeling
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- The Washington Post
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- July 17, 1994
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Garrick Ohlsson has enjoyed solid international esteem since he
won two major piano competitions: the Busoni in 1969 and the
Chopin in 1970, but for a long time it was the kind of condescending
reputation that you get by winning competitions. Nicolas Slonimsky
summed it up in one sentence in "Baker's Biographical Dictionary of
Musicians": "His interpretations are marked by a distinctive
Americanism, technically flawless and free of Romantic mannerisms."
That view may have to be modified in later editions. Ohlsson,
who opens the University of Maryland's piano festival with a recital
tonight, is still technically flawless, but he has learned a thing
or two about what lies beyond mere ...