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The key to all the magic and miracles in the world is practice. April 04, 2009 On the night of April 2, the Concert Hall at the Seoul Arts Center was full of people until late.

Classical music fans will be delighted to attend the first performances in Japan by the former child prodigy Evgeny Kissin since 2006, as the Russian pianist continues his steady rise toward virtuoso status.

Evgeny Kissin's ability to get around a piano keyboard like an Olympian has been amply demonstrated over many years of concerts and recordings.

Pianist Evgeny Kissin 's recital, scheduled for 8 tonight in Davies Symphony Hall, has been rescheduled to 8:30 p.m. Thursday to give him time to recover fully from a weekend illness.

Illness has forced famed pianist Evgeny Kissin to delay his eagerly awaited San Francisco recital by a day.

An armchair psychologist could read volumes into the recital the pianist Evgeny Kissin gave at Carnegie Hall on Thursday night.

Every concert has cultural components that go beyond the level of the performance.

Evgeny Kissin plays the piano like someone who is more at home in the world of notes than the world of feelings. It is as if he has had to learn to move past mere fluency to something deeper. He doesn't always manage it. Brilliance is his comfort zone: Strings of perfect notes flow past each other with clockwork precision, while the left hand beats out time in one Chopin etude after another. At his recital at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall on Sunday afternoon, he alternated mechanical moments like these with a delivery that seemed deliberately halting, like someone groping in the dark for familiar objects, looking for the still center of emotion in the music.

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