Sunday, November 11, 2012  Midori matures  The prodigy today -
it's not about her, it's about the music.  We haven't heard from
the great violinist Midori in these parts for some time - maybe
a decade?  So her return to the Hub was most welcome last week -
thanks to Celebrity Series, in a program of sonatas for violin
and piano (or were they for piano and violin?) with Turkish-
American pianist Özgür Aydin.  Midori is now far from her
prodigy days; but if she was once a prodigy, she was never a
diva, as you could tell by her "well-if-I-have-to" gown, and the
no-nonsense way she wore her hair at Symphony. That attitude was
all the clearer when you scanned her program - mostly Beethoven,
who of course was a pianist, not a violinist, and whose sonatas
are exquisitely balanced between the two instruments.  There
would be no showboating or hogging the spotlight here!  And
Midori and Aydin truly played as one - a sophisticated
classicism was their shared keynote; although a seeming chill
between them onstage made me