Tucson recital

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...when he hit that thrilling high note at the end you could feel the hairs on your arm stand up."

“Polenzani made the intimate Holsclaw feel like his living room. He hit the high end of his register in the pleading Schubert song “Im Früling” and we held our collective breath to see where he would take it before the audience burst into applause.

Polenzani inhabited the characters in the Schubert cycle, from the heartbroken lover in “Im Früling” to the man musing his quiet rustic life among the crickets in the light-hearted “Der Ensame.” There was a palpable hurt to his tone in the aching love ode “Standchen,” and when he hit that thrilling high note at the end you could feel the hairs on your arm stand up.”

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