Music in Philosophy Hall
Oh that we (the Philosophy Department at San Francisco State) could have such a “drawing room”. Sigh. Lovely new Steinway on the left and probably another one that Hochman played. I love that dear, little B-flat Partita of Bach’s. Still working on it after all these years.
The premise of Columbia University’s free Lunchtime Concerts, presented at Philosophy Hall, an intimate reading room ideal for chamber music, is that only one work should be played per program. On Monday, for the first installment of the pianist Benjamin Hochman’s survey of Bach’s six solo keyboard partitas, that work was quite short: the Partita No. 1 in B flat, which lasted just 16 minutes in an elegant, flowing performance.
