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Thanks to Mimi Ezust for the link to this article.
(http://www.nybooks.com/articles/18400)
I was much entertained by a couple of Rosen's stories:
>> "Why is he playing it at that tempo," I asked a friend of Hofmann's with
>> whom I was sitting, and he replied, "He can't play it any faster."[5])
>> Leonid Hambro, who should be famous for having discovered how to play
>> Bartok's energetic glissandos on the black keys without stripping the
>> skin off his fingers-he used his wallet.)
and gratified by what he says about composers' instructions about metronome
markings; he uses Carter as an example:
>> Some years ago, before performing Elliott Carter's piano concerto,
>> I played a few passages for the composer, and asked him if they
>> were fast enough. "They sound almost too fast," he replied. "I've
>> reduced your metronome marks by 20 percent throughout," I remarked.
What follows is really worth reading too.
Jim Tobin
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