How the Grammys snubbed Igor Levit

How the Grammys snubbed Igor Levit

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norman lebrecht

March 15, 2021

We knew that nobody was going to watch Igor Levit playing at the Grammys, but who expected this?

From a reader:

The streamed presentation of the classical music Grammy Awards produced this rather remarkable moment.

The person  who actually hosted this segment is a rough-edge comedian, Bill Burr. He was introduced and came out just after Igor Levitt played a languorous version of the first movement of the “Moonlight” Sonata. This was, verbatim, the first words out of his mouth, “

“Was I the only one who wanted to kill themselves during that piano solo?”

 

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