At only 27 years old, much like Classicalite fave Conrad Tao, pianist and composer Timo Andres is definitely on the faster track to success.
But as one might expect for a talent so young, the question of influence--in that especially anxious strain first noted by Harold Bloom--looms large.
To wit, the anxiety of influence was precisely what brought Andres, artist/book designer Peter Mendelsund and The New Yorker's senior editor Leo Carey to Housing Works Books on Tuesday, July 30--the very day that Timo Andres' new Nonesuch album, Home Stretch, hit the shelves.
Talking such heady things as affect and ontology in the all-volunteer book shop, the most salient points were made, however, when Andres got up from his philosophers' stool and sat down at the piano bench.
Anxiety? Wethinks not.
Come back to Classicalite before the weekend to see how Timo Andres crowned his own cadenza to Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 26 in D major, K. 537 (i.e. "Coronation").
