ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>Sara Okamoto Quotes</title> <meta name="title" content="Sara Okamoto - pianist"> <meta name="Classification" content="Arts and Humanities"> <meta name="description" content="" > <meta name="keywords" content="Sara, Okamoto, Sara Okamoto, Sarah Okamoto, piano, pianist, pianiste, classical music, classical, orchestra, symphony, music, piano teacher, "> <meta name="rating" content="General"> <meta name="copyright" content="copyright(c)2007 Sara Okamoto"> <meta name="robots" content="all"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="styles6.css"> </head> <body> <div class="main" style="height: 540px; background-image:url(newme4.jpg); background-repeat:no-repeat; background-position: top right;"> <h1> <a href="index.html" class="header">Sara Okamoto, pianist</a> </h1> <div class="navigation" style="width: 100%;"> <table border="0" cellspacing="5" width="100%"> <tr> <td align="center" style="background-color: #202020;"><a href="index.html" class="nav1">Home</a></td> <td align="center" style="background-color: #202020;"><a href="quotes.html" class="nav1">Quotes</a></td> <td align="center" style="background-color: #202020;"><a href="gallery.html" class="nav1">Gallery</a></td> <td align="center" style="background-color: #202020;"><a href="audio.html" class="nav1">Audio</a></td> <td align="center" style="background-color: #202020;"><a href="links.html" class="nav1">Links</a></td> <td align="center" style="background-color: #202020;"><a href="contact.html" class="nav1">Contact</a></td> </tr> </table> </div> <h2>Quotes</h2> <div class="text"> <p><i>--the three from the New York Philharmonic, plus pianist Sara Okamoto, played it magnificently.You might have been unprepared for how good this performance was. I expected this ensemble to have prepared the work hastily, or casually, between rehearsals of symphonies or something. (Maybe they did.) But this reading was assured, tasteful, moving. It was also very precise - even the pizzicatos at the end were almost together! Ms. Okamoto, at the piano, showed a limpid technique, and she played octaves particularly well: into the keys and easily. She appeared an unusually self-possessed musician. And the string players - Lisa Gihae Kim, violin; Vivek Kamath, viola; and Eileen Moon, cello - all made beautiful sounds, and phrased wisely.---The New York Sun, 2005</i></p> <div class="contact" style="position: absolute; top: 500px;"> <p>Contact: <a href="mailto:saraokamoto@saraokamoto.com" class="contact"> Sara Okamoto</a> </p> <p>2007 &copy; Sara Okamoto</p> </div> </div> </div> <p> <span style="font-family: arial; color: gray; ">Site by:</span> <a href="mailto:skyempty@hotmail.com" class="site">skyempty@hotmail.com</a> </p> </body> </html>