A Concert Play by Gregory Oh
“Find out what you are good at and learn to love it.”
Lessons in Failure embraces the taboos of classical music with delight and vulnerability. Part recital, part tell-all confessional, veteran pianist and award-winning music director Gregory Oh dishes on the shortcomings, shameful moments and catastrophic failures that have defined his career. With great humour and bittersweet introspection, this is a meditation on a life spent in the performing arts and trying to find meaning within it, interleaved with piano performances of devastating virtuosity.
Created by and Featuring: Gregory Oh
Dramaturgy: Zorana Sadiq
Acting Coach: Tanja Jacobs
List of pieces performed (may vary)
- Prelude from Partita No. 1 in B-flat Major – J. S. Bach
- Glass Houses No. 5 – Ann Southam
- Run, Run! from Scenas Infantis – Octavio Pinto
- Intermezzo Op. 118, No. 2 – Johannes Brahms
- Battle of Manassas – Thomas Wiggins
- Etude Op. 10, No. 5 – Frederic Chopin (excerpt)
- Premiere Ogive – Erik Satie
- Variations on a theme by Rode, Op. 33 (La Ricordanza) – Carl Czerny (excerpts)
- PIano Sonata in b minor – Franz Liszt
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council of the Arts, the Canadian Music Centre – Ontario Region and The Howland Company.
Listen to Gregory Oh’s interview about Lessons in Failure on CBC Q with Talia Schlanger.