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So the couple worked up a collaboration, at first from a distance.
Josefowicz spent her time apart from him mastering Bach partitas.
Leila Josefowicz:Its been an amazing musical and artistic journey.
It wasnt something Id ever done in my career.
It just seemed like a beautiful thing to do in the midst of an artist crisis in performance.
It certainly transformed my existence in so many different ways.
Of course, George is the genesis and the catalyst for all of this.
So, thank you, George.
GC:Youre welcome.
How its sort of tearing people apart, and pulling them back together again.
When Im drawing, thats what I do.
I start; I dont hesitate; I do everything in one go.
So the piece isnt particularly reflecting one image; its more the way I draw.
I think he thought,Why not just compose like that?
LJ:It was amazing.
I was almost like,Are you sure?
Maybe that productivity is a silver lining.LJ:It really was an artistic explosion.
Leila, when you first played the piece what did you think?
Symbolically, thats a lot of what this piece is about.
We just wanted to release something positive into the world to alleviate some of that.
Its hard to explain, but you almost have to have a distance to do the best creation.
March 8 was literally my last pre-pandemic concert.
You have to do it.
You have to create something.
Some fantastically inspired art comes from that.
GC:For me, its such a different experience.
Then I realized that was way over my head.
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