In case you were wondering what violinist Hilary Hahn has been up to in the nearly two weeks since she tore it up at Jordan Hall, she has taken a page out of cellist Matt Haimovitz's book by playing The Tractor Tavern in Seattle. She'll get a good deal more than my praise for the effort, too, by the sound of it. Here's a whiff of the review from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
"It was just after midnight. Immediately the crowd reduced its chatter to no chatter. The audience knew what was before them and paid attention.
Something she rarely does in more conventional venues, she talked, with easy charm and a touch of irreverence. Her first offering was Bach's Chaconne, both virtuosic and moving, which was not surprising because Hahn has been playing Bach since she was 8. The second was a transcription for solo violin of a celebrated Schubert art song, 'Erlkonig' ('Erlking'), a novelty to be sure but an evocative one."
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