Robert Levin interviewed by Wall Street Journal

In case you missed it, Robert Levin was interviewed in today’s Wall Street Journal. Like the recent San Francisco Classical Voice interview, the article focused a great deal on the his penchant for (and skill at) classical improvisation:

“If you really want to do something that sounds like Haydn but not Mozart, something that sounds like Beethoven but not Schubert, there have to be a lot of switches that are triggered in your brain and they’re based on linguistic things. Somebody could listen to somebody’s speech and might say, ‘That’s a Southern accent.’ But somebody who has a good ear would say, ‘No, that’s Kentucky, Western Kentucky, confined to a two-county area.’ That’s what we’re talking about here—not because the audience might notice, but because if you’re going to do it, you might as well do it right.” Read the article