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Jeremy Denk: Connoisseur of Chaos

By Justin Davidson, eMusic Contributor

Like many self-afflicting perfectionists, the pianist Jeremy Denk probably has a slender file of negative reviews stashed in the closet. Perhaps he can't help himself from chewing over a handful of unkind comments someone made long ago. These days, though, virtually everything he does provokes a patter of backslaps — not the sort of hysterical praise that can burden a 20-year-old virtuoso with unrealistic expectations, but (since he's in his 40s) a consensus of gratitude… more »

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  • 05.08.13 If only I had a bathtub here at the Gardner Museum so I could read all the pretentious books I bought yesterday http://t.co/E76yvneXk9
  • 05.08.13 Ahem! "If I had concert technique by the time I was 18 I might have ended up a boring classical pianist or whatever." http://t.co/n3rUGSFVT3
  • 05.07.13 Two abandoned flannel shirts two empty coffee cups a bottle of bourbon and the classical style by charles Rosen http://t.co/NCbQ8kGgK5
  • 05.05.13 When you are really virtuosically procrastinating, you clean your coffee grinder.
  • 05.02.13 Friend E: "I wish they would bring boundaries back." (I tweet, not respecting her boundaries)
  • 05.02.13 I'll add that I never heard an audience laugh so hard and deeply at a purely musical joke as @carnegiehall last night, beethoven bagatelles
  • 05.02.13 Richard Goode's 110 just now was one of the greatest things I have ever heard and shook me out of April funk and made me happy to be alive
  • 04.29.13 Cuddling up in bed with Catullus and Salted Caramel ice cream after a delicious but fat-free gay dinner
  • 04.28.13 If you just can't think of the perfect Jeremy Denk birthday present, I have only two words for you: therapy llama. http://t.co/YxgMZUkDv8
  • 04.28.13 So many indelible memories of coachings with Janos Starker. Very very sad day. http://t.co/qtzG6jAI7M
  • 04.13.13 Not every hotel has a squadron of falconers
  • 04.12.13 I have no idea what this guy is talking about in the airport shuttle