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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 16, 2015 - 01:39pm PT
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I loved this film, full of fiddling around.
It provides some real laughs, too.
"Can you Handel the truth, embellished a bit, perhaps?"
Starring Trevor Howard as the Old Buck. [Click to View YouTube Video]
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selfish man
Gym climber
Austin, TX
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following the development of a fugue in 3D space is a brilliant idea. I wonder if Gould's Bach could be explained by him thinking this way
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Gary
Social climber
Hell is empty and all the devils are here
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Gould probably did "see" Bach in 3D. Some USC professor claims Gould was autistic, but I don't buy that. He was very articulate, maybe a little dry.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Dec 16, 2015 - 12:25pm PT
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Happy Beethoven's Birthday!
I had just enough time to play the last half of the Sonata Op. 110 before I left for work, in partial celebration. I hope to play a couple more Sonatas (probably the Appassionata and Op. 111) before I head to the gym this evening.
I'm sure you're all disappointed (not) that I can't post my versions of these works, since I need to get my recording equipment to join the century. Here's a link to Schnabel playing Op. 110 instead:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVPFIVLOguw
John
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Gary
Social climber
Hell is empty and all the devils are here
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Dec 16, 2015 - 07:36pm PT
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selfish man, those old recordings are fascinating. Hoffman, Lhevinne, Godowsky, Pachmann and on. We just missed getting Liszt on cylinder by a couple of years.
Now we only need to get JohnE on record. ;-)
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Gary
Social climber
Hell is empty and all the devils are here
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Dec 17, 2015 - 01:02pm PT
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^^ TFPU. You like the baroque, eh, eKat?
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selfish man
Gym climber
Austin, TX
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Dec 17, 2015 - 05:36pm PT
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Gary, I'm discovering many old recordings through YouTube... some are simply fascinating, some just blew me away (such as a few of Hofmann's concert recordings). Yes, it's unfortunate Liszt didn't quite live long enough to be recorded. But I've just found a few recordings made by his pupil Eugen d'Albert...
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Dec 18, 2015 - 12:29pm PT
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As soon as my mom told my dad that I did not HAVE to learn the violin I became a lost cause to him.
Too bad both ways. Had he lived to see me win shooting competitions or praise as a climber he might have thought different.
Since I had classical music shoved down my throat early I developed more modern preferences. Again, too bad, I could have learned a lot.
But my dad made over 40 records and most of them are now on CD.
At the Latok reunion in '10 attendees arrived in a green 5 acre meadow at 8300' with stunning mountain vistas and my dad's Mozart playing on the speakers.
Nice touch.
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Gary
Social climber
Where in the hell is Major Kong?
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Dec 18, 2015 - 02:03pm PT
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Indeed.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Dec 22, 2015 - 08:36pm PT
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Parental expectations are a tough gig. Sat night we had dinner with someone
just like you, Toker. Our friend left home at 15. Did I mention this was
a home that saw Rachmaninoff, Stravinsky, Schoenberg, and the like as regular
guests? Our friend's dad died a couple years ago and he got his records.
Our friend, now a music prof at Caltech*, played an early 50's Artur Schnabel
recording of Mozart's 20th with the craziest cadenzas I've ever heard, especially
for the 50's. In the first cadenza he worked in a lengthy riff on Gershwin.
The second featured a variation on Beethoven's Appassionata. ARE YOU FREAKING
KIDDING ME? BTW, our friend's early mentor was a close friend of Alfred
Brendel who was close to Schnabel and said he was pretty bonkers. ;-)
BTW, I got my new Yamaha today. Fuggetabout that Gould dood. Jess sayin... :-)))
*Yes, they believe in a well-rounded education there. About 15 years ago
we saw some Chinese chem grad do more than an acceptable presentation of
Mozart's 21st! Technically he was all there and musically also! Disgusting...;-)
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selfish man
Gym climber
Austin, TX
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Dec 23, 2015 - 09:10am PT
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Gary:
the Rosenthal version is so aristocratic. And the pianissimos are unreal.
Reilly: I'm seriously jealous. How come most houses I go to they make me watch football.
Before heading off for JTree, here's some appropriate music for this time.
If you're there in the next week or so and run into a guy with a funny russian accent (likely going up the Eye or the Bong or some such thing around the sunset time) - say hello
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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Gary
Social climber
Where in the hell is Major Kong?
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Dec 23, 2015 - 10:17am PT
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Selfish man, I'll be out there late next week and will keep my ears open fo the Russian accent.
BTW, I got my new Yamaha today.
Really? What did you get?
Last Friday at Kim's in Garden Grove I played in my music school's recital. Me and a bunch of 8 year olds. The piano was a 9' Kawai EX concert grand. What a piano. Great touch, easy to control, bass like there's no tomorrow.
If I knock out the kitchen sink I could fit it in my condo. After hitting the lottery that is.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Dec 23, 2015 - 10:48am PT
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Gary, don't be too jealous. I'd have to knock some walls out too to get
anything serious into my little house. Also, since we plan to move in a few
years I decided to mark time [get it? :-)] with a DGX650B. The action is
far superior to my music professor friend's POS 5' grand and the sound is
freaking amazing. You can adjust the action if you want although the default
is just fine. Since the wife used to play the organ we've got that, the
harpsichord, the clavichord, and everything else covered.
BTW, hats off, y'all, and a moment of silence for Kurt Masur's passing Saturday.
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