![]() ![]() ![]() We had an LP of the concerto (I don’t recall the pianist, but it wasn’t Curzon, an intensely self-critical performer who didn’t release a version in his lifetime), and I started listening to it. Curzon had studied with Artur Schnabel and Wanda Landowska, and, above all, Curzon was English, and in those days you could feel almost patriotic about famous English musicians. My father collected pianists and their performances. I didn’t know the piece, but I knew about Curzon. My father, a man who in later life would think nothing of driving forty miles on his own to hear Bach or Beethoven, had recently seen the English pianist Clifford Curzon in concert, playing Mozart’s last piano concerto, No. I was thirteen, fundamentally cheerful but convinced I was fundamentally melancholy, and ravenous for all the music I could get my hands on, especially music that made me tearful. At some point in the autumn of 1979, I became obsessed with a few bars of Mozart. There is no sector of our life that allows for complacency.Music has its seasons, and people have their needs. As a musician, researcher, teacher, living in near abject poverty, we need to feed our minds, strengthen our weak knees, and set straight paths for our feet.ītw, I refuse to wear the color red for any reason. For this reason, I warn from yesteryear: Beware the Red Menace. It is an attack from the grassroots to the highest offices and agencies in our Nation, for the sake of sordid gain and power. As well, shame on all who support the destruction of our culture and society in the USA. It is part of the anti-Democratic movement that has been building over the past 6 decades. shame on the publishers who are attacking lending libraries, thinking to quietly seek profits over serving the needs of We The People. ![]() "Classical music is a special taste like Greek language or pre-Columbian archeology, not a common culture of reciprocal communication and psychological shorthand." - Allan Bloom I donate and spread the word about their service to Humanity in our digital world. I'm grateful for Internet Archive to make this available. I went in search for a musical foundation to be inspiration, succor, relief, and more in this season of my life. ![]() Only accidents of life in my family prevented me from continuing, although I still play. I trained early in life, starting at 4yo, in classical piano. ![]()
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