Tag Archives: Jeremy Denk

A Pianist Walks into a Coffeeshop

Wag­ner once asked Niet­z­sche to help buy under­wear for him. Silk under­wear. For women. Richard Wag­ner had a fet­ish for silk under­wear, for pink women’s panties. For God’s sake, he sent Niet­z­sche out to buy the under­wear for him! I can’t believe this is true, that it’s not some­thing I just dreamed. I could totally have

Jeremy Denk’s Interview on Fresh Air

Jeremy Denk is one of my favour­ite musi­cians not only because he is a blog­ging clas­sical pian­ist, but because his blog makes the most mur­der­ously com­plic­ated clas­sical pieces access­ible to the hoi polloi and non-professional musi­cians. For example, this blog post on Beethoven’s Ham­merklavier (you can grab a free com­plete record­ing while listen­ing to the

Denk Reviews The Great Animal Orchestra.

I will only read reviews under a few arbit­rary con­di­tions which can be summed up as: I am uncon­cerned about spoil­ers because it’s about a crappy story I won’t read or watch any­way. It’s a review of music. It’s about non-fiction. Jeremy Denks review of The Great Animal Orches­tra would fall under cat­egory 2 and 3. It