For his encore Mr. Bollani employed a trademark exercise: a medley of songs determined by audience request.
WHEN Ali Aktas, a popular Kurdish folk singer, appeared at a concert last month in the south-eastern city of Diyarbakir in aid of Turkey's earthquake victims, he agreed to his audience's request for a few Kurdish songs.
His audience still shouts requests for the song, but he doesn't play it.
They ask the crowd where they're from, joke with the audience, and encourage requests for particular songs.
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In concert as on the radio, Ms. McPartland is an attentive conversationalist, so it was only natural that she paused to mine the audience for requests.
Making up the set list as he goes along, he asks the audience for requests and questions, all the while stroking the autoharp (a sort of zither) with which he accompanies the first eight songs of the show.
Requests for audience participation usually elicit a charged silence, but this one seemed to bring extra static into the room because the actor onstage was an avatar for a live person who was really asking these questions in a small room, far away, and who was someone that you might actually talk to.
