In this edition of SundayArts: pianist Chu-Fang Huang performs on the occasion of receiving her 2011 Avery Fisher Career Grant, the latest SundayArts News, and more.

Pianist Chu-Fang Huang performs on the occasion of receiving her 2011 Avery Fisher Career Grant.

The other day, I heard Chopin’s Nocturne in C minor, Op. 48 No. 1, performed live on a nineteenth-century Corning Steinway piano. As Igal Kesselman, the pianist, made his way through that nocturne’s melancholy, stormy, and contemplative sections, in the background a woman checked out a flouncy silver-grey dress on the racks at Ann Taylor. [...]

I just got back from Steinway Hall, down the street from Carnegie Hall, where the pianist Lang Lang made a lunchtime appearance while in town for a free Central Park concert with the New York Philharmonic. The ever-bouncy Lang Lang arrived in jeans, black-and-white jersey, and trademarked spiky hair about 20 minutes late, straight from [...]