Chamber music is often thought of as the most serious, high-church form of classical music. So it's hard to say why hearing two virtuosos play together should be so much fun. But on Sunday at George Mason University, the joint recital of Emanuel Ax and Yefim Bronfman was basically all about entertainment -- in the best sense. It lies partly with the music. The repertory for duo piano has a participatory element. Certainly both Brahms's Variations on a Theme by Haydn and Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances were conceived as concert works -- both were written by ... (more)