At 80, the Modest Queen of Contemporary Music Keeps Exploring

On a cold afternoon in early January, the pianist Ursula Oppens was making an album at Brooklyn College. At 79, Oppens is a little fragile, tiny and stooped. But when she sat down at the piano — shoes off, Diet Coke on the floor — out came playing of power and technical aplomb. Most of the time,…

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