Joel Fan, the soloist for the “Emperor Concerto,” should have a halo of superlatives around his head. He sat at the piano as quietly as at a desk and proceeded to give vibrant, passionate, tender, sparkling life to the thousands of notes under his fingers. Each melodic theme seemed to grow throughout the modulatory transitions into full bloom as an organic whole. His playing of the second movement opening theme in a reverent, pianissimo whisper was one of those times when one wished the music would never end. – Win Pusey, Special to The Ellsworth American