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Nothing Flashy About This Concert Pianist

Lebanese Pianist El Bacha does not sensationalize the music he plays; he simply plays expressively.
Nothing Flashy About This Concert Pianist
Abdel Rahman El Bacha as he prepares for his performance on the last night of the international music festival at the historic Roman ruins at Baalbek in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. A France-based Lebanese classical pianist and composer, Bacha is considered to be among the leading classical pianists to have emerged from the Middle East and has won a number of international prizes. Anwar Amro/AFP/Getty Images
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Abdel Rahman El Bacha as he prepares for his performance on the last night of the international music festival at the historic Roman ruins at Baalbek in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. A France-based Lebanese classical pianist and composer, Bacha is considered to be among the leading classical pianists to have emerged from the Middle East and has won a number of international prizes. (Anwar Amro/AFP/Getty Images)
Sharon Kilarski
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Sharon writes theater reviews, opinion pieces on our culture, and the classics series. Classics: Looking Forward Looking Backward: Practitioners involved with the classical arts respond to why they think the texts, forms, and methods of the classics are worth keeping and why they continue to look to the past for that which inspires and speaks to us. To see the full series, see ept.ms/LookingAtClassics.