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Four Hands Are Better than TwoDouble your pleasure at the Two Piano Competition.By MARA LEVENTHALPublished on March 13, 2008 at 3:01amThe concept is something like doubles tennis for pianists: Every two years, piano teams from all over the globe meet in Miami for the Dranoff International Two Piano Competition. This year 10 duos (thats four hands playing two pianos at once, times 10) are vying for $55,000 in prize money. The pressure is intense, the competition is fierce, and ultimately each pair is only as strong as its weakest half. Something about it all sounds like a future Wes Anderson project. Is it the fact that there are two sets of twins -- American maestros Susan and Sarah Wang and Germanys Humburgers, Richard and Valentin? Which twosome will persevere? Will it be Polina Grigoryeva and Yulia Yurchenko from Russia, or brothers Victor and Luis del Valle from Spain? All of them battle teams from South Africa, Israel, China, Japan, Serbia, and the UK.
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