Pianist Markus Groh brought a prodigious amount of technicalability and a thorough understanding of the Old World-style ofplaying Beethoven's
Piano Concerto No. 3 to Thursday's West Virginia SymphonyOrchestra rehearsal.
Groh and conductor Grant Cooper were bound cheek to jowl in theirefforts to have the orchestra musicians understand how veryimportant all of the markings on the page were.
Beethoven really meant it when he called for sudden crescendosand dimuendos and accents on certain beats.
The orchestra was a quick study and by the time the entire workhad been gone over, real German music in the real German style wasechoing throughout the …
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