It's been a minute, but Hilary Hahn is finally coming back to play with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra 16 years after her one and only Tucson concert.
And then there’s Hilary Hahn.
“It’s been awhile,” she conceded during a phone call from her Cambridge, Massachusetts, home earlier this month, then joked: “At least I’m doing a different piece!” Tucson is one of several cities that Hahn, 43, is finally circling back to, she said, and at many of them she will perform works by Bach.Listen now and subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS Feed | Omny Studio “I play Tchaikovsky as much as I can. I play the Bach concerto as much as I can,” she said. “There are certain pieces this season where if there’s an opportunity to play them, I play them.
“It’s not terribly different. It just has some extra repetitions and certain passages and it develops certain ideas a little differently,” explained Hahn, who is the artist in residence for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and has a visiting lecturer role at Yale. “Now I have a flow with the piece ... . It’s a virtuoso piece, but for me it’s more about the expression of the work and the flow of the work. It keeps the the entire arc in mind.
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