Classical Music Retooled for Intimate Club Settings

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NEW YORK -- After so many centuries, Beethoven isn't always hot stuff. But on a recent Thursday here, the composer's cello sonatas packed in the customers at the Bleecker Street club Le Poisson Rouge -- in conditions so steamy that pianist Simone Dinnerstein dressed as if she'd just come from playing with her son in the park and cellist Zuill Bailey shed his natty suit coat between movements.

No complaints, though. They had a kind of success not possible at their usual haunts.

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Classical Music Retooled for Intimate Club Settings

"The closeness of the audience, the fact that people are in a much more relaxed setting ... that's what concerts should be like," said Dinnerstein later. "In concert ha...

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