Music review: Pianist Alexander Paley takes on Stravinsky, Rachmaninoff

Two monumental musical works emerged just before the onset of World War I. Igor Stravinsky's revolutionary Rite of Spring and Sergei Rachmaninoff's Thirteen Preludes, Op. 32, for piano remain in the concert repertoire to this day. Both the Stravinsky and the Rachmaninoff demand extremes of technical agility, physical power and intellectual acumen -- but up to a point. Moldovan pianist Alexander Paley, who has been making waves everywhere, brought this music to a packed audience on Saturday at th...