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Work: Stolen Symphonies

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ComposerBrubaker, Bruce
PeriodEarly 20th century
Work typeInstrumental
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Bruce Brubaker plays Alvin Curran at Kings Place

Sixteen minutes of mercilessly pummelling the piano keys, alternating shimmering, dissonant chords between right and left hands, as fast as humanly possible or maybe slightly faster. This fleet, beguiling whoosh of texture left the Kings Place audience in no doubt as to Bruce Brubaker’s technical prowess, nor his astonishingly delicate, sensitive touch at the keyboard.
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