Yelena Grinberg: It was a fascinating undertaking to do all the research and perform Alkan’s unjustly neglected music. And from a hundred years earlier! I owe you huge for this! I can’t imagine how much fun it must have been for you to play that program! He sounds like nobody I’ve ever head before: Chopin and Beethoven mashed up with otherworldly old Jewish melodies, but also a rhythmic sensibility that reminds me of Hovhaness. But hearing his piano music, thanks to you, has been life-changing. Now, I have a pretty decent exposure to lesser-known repertoire, and I have my favorite niches too, and I have vague memories of hearing one of Alkan’s organ works once. Ever since I talked to you, I’ve been listening nonstop to his music. New York Music Daily: You’ve archived the programs going all the way back to Salon #1, where you played rarely-heard music by Charles-Valentine Alkan. Grinberg graciously took some time away from her rigorous schedule of playing and teaching to give New York Music Daily the inside scoop into a New York phenomenon. The Russian music site Etazhi calls them “Musical Salons for the Guinness Book.” Her Upper West Side salons, founded in the Fall of 2013 as a monthly soiree, have since expanded to two thematic programs per month, and have become legendary. Pianist and impresario Yelena Grinberg is New York’s greatest advocate for undiscovered and unorthodox classical repertoire. New York’s Great Champion of Undeservedly Obscure Classical Repertoire Shares These Treasures at Her Magical Salon Series
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