Andre Watts
by Caitlin Derose
Classical music lovers are in for a real treat as the BPO welcomes pianist Andre Watts to Kleinhans’ Music Hall for a special Saturday night (Feb 17) performance of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2, perhaps the most beloved concerto in piano literature. Watts burst onto the music scene at age 16, when Leonard Bernstein asked him to perform with the New York Philharmonic in their Young Peoples concerts; two weeks later Bernstein called him again and Watts continues to be a driving force in the music world more than 40 years later. Included in the evening’s performance will be composer Aaron Copland’s Music for the Movies and John Corigliano’s Three Hallucinations, inspired by his 1980 score for the movie Altered States. The concert starts at 8pm (www.bpo.org)
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