Question

[Robert B. Edwardsen]

I would love to hear your comments on this performance and the piano(lets not forget the
hall).  I'm going to hear the same concert in Carneige Hall October 14th.  I have heard
Kissen live three times in the past and have always enjoyed his performances.  He reminds me
of early Rubinstein recordings of the 20's and 30's; very, very intense.  Beethoven did
comment on the Tempest sonata "the strings must break" (I can't remember where I read that
right now).  Perhaps Kissen is to intense for this reviewer and/or that piano/hall.

Rob Edwardsen

Horace Greeley wrote:

> 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
>
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