GK: .....after this word from classical pianist JeremyDenk.
JD: The name has always been a problem for me: Jeremy Denk. Sounds like a guy you hire to come and trim your shrubbery. The tree guy. There's just something gardener-like about me. People see me on the street and they say, "Do you know what a person can do about aphids on clematis?" So in my career I've been trapped in rationalism, playing J.S. Bach (BACH) or 20th Century (LIGETI). I have a passion for Franz Liszt (LISZT PASSAGE) and of course Chopin (CHOPIN PASSAGE) but people don't want romanticism from me ---- until I took a 5-week course at Earl's School of Accents.
TR: Learning a new accent can be a major asset in your professional life. If you want a high-tech job (GERMAN) it will be to your advantage to sound like this. (FRENCH) A job in fashion or cooking, this is how you need to present yourself. (SWEDISH) For a job in banking and finance, it can't hurt to be Swedish. (STRAIGHT) And for the pianist Jaromir Dankovich, formerly known as Jeremy Denk----
JD (RUSSIAN): I would now like to play for you a work I loved as a boy, growing up in Odessa, where there was a bust of Tchaikovsky on the kitchen shelf, beside the bowl of borscht, and whenever I played this tune, my mama always burst into tears. (TCHAI CHORDS)