Folks, A question before I waste any of your bandwidth... Recently, reading a review of a local performance convinced me to write to the critic - not about the review per se, but rather about a subject the review did not mention - the piano. Now, understand that in 35 years of tuning, I have never done this. The review may be seen at: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/09/26/DD82230.DTL (Sorry if the above "wraps". If you have trouble, the title of the review is "Brahms, Beethoven Take a Pounding : Pianist Kissin's outbursts maddening", from the 26.Sept.00 edition of the San Francisco Chronicle.) Anyway, I wrote to the reviewer, and also published my thoughts privately to a few friends. Several of them suggested that I post the whole thing to CAUT, which I am happy to do, but did not want to do so without some feedback from the list. I am mostly concerned with the length of the communications - mine is, characteristically, not short....and, I would want to include the thoughts of some others, as I think that they are careful and thoughtful additions to my own remarks. The subject is something near and dear to all of our hearts, particularly in this space - concert voicing and preparation. As is everyone else, I am pretty busy with work and stuff, so it would probably be next weekend before I could really get my thoughts together enough to post. That's it. I hope that this finds everyone well and happy, as well as thoroughly buried by the new Academic Year. Best regards to all. Horace +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Horace Greeley, email: hgreeley@stanford.edu CNA, MCP, RPT Systems Analyst/Engineer voice: 650.725.9062 Controller's Office fax: 650.725.8014 Stanford University 651 Serra St., RM 100, MC 6215 Stanford, CA 94305-6215 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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