A conversation with Stephen Tharp--continued
It is so exciting to take a piece of early music and find
the rhythmic flexibilities within isolated motives, give and take within a
smaller metric framework, good and bad, strong and weak beats.
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> This is just as challenging as holding
together a 15-minute Romantic work like Franck's Prière
style='font-style:normal'>, or shaping inner phrases with intense subtlety.