{"id":62594,"date":"2019-09-20T23:20:45","date_gmt":"2019-09-21T03:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=62594"},"modified":"2019-09-20T23:20:45","modified_gmt":"2019-09-21T03:20:45","slug":"royal-conservatory-sir-andras-schiff","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/event\/royal-conservatory-sir-andras-schiff\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Conservatory | Sir Andr\u00e1s Schiff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Awarded Knighthood by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in 2014, Hungarian-born Sir Andr\u00e1s Schiff is world-renowned and critically acclaimed as a pianist, conductor, pedagogue, and lecturer. His book,\u00a0<em>Musik kommt aus der Stille<\/em>, essays and conversations with Martin Meyer, was published in March 2017. His piano performances continually awe and inspire: \u201cHe found song where others find formula; he conveyed song where others play scales,\u201d\u00a0<em>The Los Angeles Times<\/em>\u00a0raves.\u00a0<em>The San Jose Mercury<\/em>\u00a0declared that \u201cAmong current piano titans, Andr\u00e1s Schiff is the Zen master. He is both utterly relaxed and absolutely awake; taken together, those qualities add up to an unbreakable focus. He is tireless and seemingly infallible, and his playing is window-clear. Listening to Schiff play is like looking into a running stream and seeing all the colorful, round pebbles beneath the water.\u201d And we love this: \u201c&#8230;the critic can only throw up his hands, wish you had been there, and quote Ira Gershwin\u2019s endearing tombstone inscription: &#8216;Words Fail Me.&#8217;\u201d (<em>The New York Times<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>This concert is part of The Royal Conservatory\u2019s two-season Beethoven 250 Festival.<\/p>\n<p>Program:<br \/>\nLudwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 12 in A flat Major, op. 26<br \/>\nRobert Schumann: Piano Sonata No. 1 in F sharp Minor, op. 11<br \/>\nRobert Schumann: Fantasy in C Major, op. 17<br \/>\nLudwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 21 in C Major, op. 53 (\u201cWaldstein\u201d)<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Please join us at 7pm for a Prelude Recital with students from The Glenn Gould School.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>PLUS!<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Sir Andr\u00e1s Schiff<\/strong><strong>\u00a0will lead a free public Master Class on Friday, October 25, 2-5pm in Mazzoleni Concert Hall. You are welcome to watch, listen, and learn as the master musician instructs three students from The Glenn Gould School.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awarded Knighthood by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in 2014, Hungarian-born Sir Andr\u00e1s Schiff is world-renowned and critically acclaimed as a pianist, conductor, pedagogue, and lecturer. His book,\u00a0Musik kommt aus der Stille, essays and conversations with Martin Meyer, was published in March 2017. His piano performances continually awe and inspire: \u201cHe found song where others [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[6487],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/62594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/62594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62596,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/62594\/revisions\/62596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62594"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=62594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}