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| Recital with Rina Dokshitsky at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Hall |
| “Stand-in spans century with rousing cello recital |
| Gerhardt gave Pittsburgh one of the most serious, interesting and enterprising programs of the season…Moreover, Gerhardt - an artist of major stature although still in his mid-20s - carried his ultra-conservative audience along with him and had his listeners rising to their feet with spontaneous ovations after each piece. With technical and intellectual mastery of the material at hand, Gerhardt produced on the single instrument the sonorities of voice and orchestra, the fullness of a string quartet, along with an emotional range that seemed to encompass the entire human condition…It has been a long time since any music in Pittsburgh has come through with such physical force and utter personal conviction.” |
| February 3 1997 |
