Mr. Top, a specialist in the French repertory as a singer, musicologist and teacher, sounded dry and strained throughout the recital, projecting some of the songs' charm but almost none of their ease and flow.
Classical Anna Picard In a year of Identikit anniversary recitals, Pierre-Laurent Aimard's Liszt Project eschewed the rhinestones and examined the Hungarian showman's influence on Bartók, Ravel and Messaien.
The recording, "Baroque Conversations," and the recital program are the latest projects in what has become a trademark of Mr. Greilsammer's work since his mid-20s.
But Bill Clinton, delighted at the prospect of a Father's Day graduation, agreed to respond to written questions from The New York Times, and recalled a flood of memories of the birth, first day of school, dance and piano recitals and an early science project on Jupiter of the daughter who, he said, "has her mother's character and her father's energy".
His "Brahms Then and Now" project continues with a recital at Carnegie Hall, which sets recent pieces by Brett Dean and Missy Mazzoli ("Bolts of Loving Thunder") alongside three magisterial works by the German icon: the Sonata No. 2 in F-Sharp Minor, the Piano Pieces, Op. 119, and the "Handel Variations".
In the past five years, the symphony's winter festival has grown from three concerts to three weeks of concerts, talks, recitals, film and a school outreach project.
Mr. Ohlsson has been prominently associated with Chopin's music since he became the first American to win the Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw in 1970, and his recital was part of Lincoln Center's Chopin Project, a celebration of the composer's bicentennial.
The all-important Senior Recital for instance, has become the Culminating Project with all the same focus and concentration that a classical student would heap upon their Chopin or Beethoven.
The project began as a conventional Dowland recital by John Potter, a tenor who has sung in the Hilliard Ensemble, Electric Phoenix and Red Byrd; and Stephen Stubbs, the lutenist and director of the group Tragicomedia.
He gave a gala recital donating proceeds to the ICMF's music education project.
