[CAUT] Warning to you hosting the Van Cliburn gold medalist

[Paul T Williams]

Funny thing was..he very seriously asked me at intermission, "could you 
please make it a bit brighter?"  I had to hold my howling laughter inside 
and said, "if you could please come back next Tuesday and play I can make 
it happen!"  :>)



From:
"David Love" <davidlovepianos at comcast.net>
To:
<caut at ptg.org>
Date:
03/02/2010 08:48 PM
Subject:
Re: [CAUT] Warning to you hosting the Van Cliburn gold medalist



What’s the matter, you can’t tune a newly strung D in 20 minutes J. 
Complain, complain.  Welcome to the club.  In those situations I always 
very politely go to the pianist (after they’ve played awhile and can tell 
if it needs tuning) and say something to the effect of “I need about x 
amount of time with the piano before the doors open at 7:00.  If you find 
that it’s fine the way it is then please practice as long as you like but 
if not then I’ll need to get on it by x:xx.  I’m sorry but I was expecting 
you a bit earlier.”
 
The thought that the piano will go untuned before the concert usually 
convinces them that if they don’t know the piece by now and extra 30 
minutes of practicing probably won’t help. 
 
David Love
www.davidlovepianos.com

To: caut at ptg.org
From: pwilliams4 at unlnotes.unl.edu
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 18:18:11 -0600
Subject: [CAUT] Warning to you hosting the Van Cliburn gold medalist

Hi all, 

Tonight, the Van Cliburn gold medalist is playing.  He blew off the 
afternoon practice and showed up at 4:30 instead of 3:30 to warm up.  He 
is supposed to go until 6:30 with a half hour to tune before the doors 
open at 7pm. 

I'm not a happy camper.  He gets what he gets!! a two hour program with 
many major pieces each half.  I will have the great opportunity to tune 
during the intermission. (a joke). This piano has just been freshly 
restrung and is not stable at all. 

Why do so many great pianists have no @#$% clue about their instrument?? 
for any of you hosting Mr. Khang, please tell him something resembling a 
clue on piano prep time.  I was caught totally off guard on this one. 

Can you tell I'm pissed off?? 

Paul 


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