He has played more than a dozen modest concerts in small halls, homes and piano salons here and in Israel; acquired a close friend, Simona DeFeo, committed to helping his career; and found a financial backer, an Israeli foreign exchange trader, Dvir Borik, who is paying for the Weill recital.
Back home, after further surgery he recovered sufficiently to undertake a modest winter concerts season.
If the ensemble's name created grand expectations, the reality was more modest: a respectable concert of worthwhile pieces played for a small but receptive audience chiefly composed of university alumni and friends, to judge from the name tags most audience members wore.
Kronos's role at this concert was modest.
The ensemble presented its annual spring festival on Saturday evening at the Tenri Cultural Institute in Manhattan, and if it was a modest offering — just a concert really — it did provide a good overview of what these musicians find compelling.
By the time the two men met, Barry was no longer a visible presence on the classical-music scene, nor was his wife, Joyce Hatto, a talented pianist who had achieved modest recognition as a concert performer but hadn't played in public in more than a decade.
IN its modest, underground way a concert that the young musicians of the Ensemble ACJW gave on a brisk night in December at Le Poisson Rouge, the Greenwich Village club for all kinds of contemporary music, was one of the most liberating programs I have heard in years.
You could see it in action on Friday night at Roulette, a venerable new-music institution now in a SoHo storefront of modest size, when a concert featuring works by Mario Diaz de León, a young New York composer working on his doctorate at Columbia University, attracted an audience that packed the room.
Many of them, especially women and the young, doubtless chafed at PAS's edicts banning rock concerts, encouraging modest dress, and separating the sexes in supermarkets and on beaches.In this section Independence day?
