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Celebrated Argentine-Israeli maestro
Virtuoso piano
Spoke aloud the puzzling paradox -
The conductor is the center of attention, yet he makes no sound
Gave the downbeat for Beethoven's D-minor
Allegro ma non troppo
The sound that flowed around him
Grimly eloquent at the outset
Electrically triumphant at the end
While most of us incrementally fall to pieces
The conductor gets better with age
Seemingly incapable of giving non-transcendent performances
Now 63 the conductor
Had gravitas in his youth
But something in his work has deepened
A decade ago
There was a crude and chaotic quality to the sound
The
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