{"id":102946,"date":"2025-01-28T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/?p=102946"},"modified":"2026-01-14T12:11:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T20:11:38","slug":"pitman-reviews-dinnerstein-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/pitman-reviews-dinnerstein-eye\/","title":{"rendered":"John Pitman Reviews: Simone Dinnerstein&#8217;s &#8216;The Eye is the First Circle&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>American pianist Simone Dinnerstein&#8217;s latest album, <em>The Eye is the First Circle<\/em>, features iconic American composer Charles Ives\u2019 Concord Sonata. The album is a live recording of Dinnerstein\u2019s multimedia production at the Alexander Kasser Theater in Montclair State University, New Jersey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Eye is the First Circle<\/em> was inspired in part by a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson\u2019s essay Circles: \u201cThe life of man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and larger circles, and that without end.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All Classical Radio host John Pitman speaks with Simone about this monumental and challenging yet profound and personal piece &#8211; and journey, by the artist in this case &#8211; learning, performing and recording a piano sonata inspired by American literature, the landscape and experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hear their conversation below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-block-embed-soundcloud\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"John Pitman Reviews Simone Dinnerstein&#039;s &#039;The Eye is the First Circle&#039; by All Classical Radio\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F2022844752&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=750&#038;maxwidth=500\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Simone Dinnerstein&#8217;s <em>The Eye is the First Circle<\/em> is available to stream and purchase on her website  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simonedinnerstein.com\/the-eye\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">simonedinnerstein.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American pianist Simone Dinnerstein&#8217;s latest album, The Eye is the First Circle, features iconic American composer Charles Ives\u2019 Concord Sonata. The album is a live recording of Dinnerstein\u2019s multimedia production at the Alexander Kasser Theater in Montclair State University, New Jersey. The Eye is the First Circle was inspired in part by a quote from &#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":102947,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4040],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pitman-reviews"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-21 04:10:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102946"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102956,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102946\/revisions\/102956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}