Moon Pavilion

I'm reminded of The New Yorker cartoon of a lawyer telling his client: "I'm going to get you off, but I want my fee to be a lesson to you"

A film you've seen more than seven times with a gif

YouTube video by ualflygal Minnie Castevet EATING CAKE in Rosemary's Baby

Minnie Castevet EATING CAKE in Rosemary's Baby (1968)

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Music criticism ain't what it used to be. Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli places Beethoven "under a pane of glass, as an entomologist does with dead butterflies with vaguely mottled wings, and contemplates him, or sends him for a walk, all tight and skinny, in a Froebelian garden"
B dal Fabbro (1951)

Ornella Puliti Santoliquido (1906 – 1977)
How about that for a pianist's name!

...to say nothing of Pletnev's variety of touch, revelation of inner voices, the merest susurration of rubato, and that cheekiest of endings coupled with an impish gargle of a trill.

YouTube video by Mikhail Pletnev - Topic Keyboard Sonata in G Major, Kk. 520

Revisiting Mikhail Pletnev's Scarlatti.
Glenn Gould described Scarlatti as "popcorn", to which David Dubal replied: "Wanda Landowska called him 'The god of the Mediterranean'".
Try this yourself on your piaoo & see how difficult it is to have such security of rhythm
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"Fathers are teachers of the true and not-true, and no father ever knowingly teaches what is not true."
(Donald Barthelme)

Only in later life, did I discover that some of the things Dad told me - always in good faith - weren't quite as he told them.

Jorge Bolet & Emil Gilels ​Emil Gilels - Brahms - Fantasias, Op 116On 6 March 1983, Gilels performed in London's Royal Festival Hall:Brahms    Variations on a Theme by Paganini Opus 35 (Book 1); Fantasias Opus 116Schumann    4...

Jorge Bolet and Emil Gilels admired each other's pianism, though they were very different kinds of pianists
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I once read an amusing review in which it was revealed that - after calculating murders per square mile in many TV detective shows - Cabot Cove was the most dangerous place in the world.

“Hello possums,” was Dame Edna Everage's signature greeting, an apex predator of Australian bonhomie.

Ludovic Hunter-Tilney (2023)

I can almost hear Sir Humphrey advising Bernard:
"On second thoughts, best not to talk about donkeys in connection with the PM"
#YesMinister #YesPrimeMINISTER

I love this piece

YouTube video by Joan Sutherland Fan Bell Telephone Hour - Joan Sutherland - I Puritani: Ah! Sento mio bell'angelo (1963)

In which I learn that this magnificent aria from Bellini’s I Puritani was considered too difficult and gradually disappeared from the score until Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge reinstated it. She’s a bloody marvel!
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It’s always a pleasure to read the words of John Steane. Bellini, I Puritani: Maria Callas & Joan Sutherland

In preparation for a visit to an opera house I’ve LONG wanted to see. On previous trips to this far-off city, it’s been sold out or not the season. More later…

Delighted to see this soon for issue. "I was there" [for No.5] as Max Boyce would have said, and was so moved at the ending, possibly my favourite quiet ending of any symphony.

Ornella Puliti Santoliquido (1906 – 1977)
How about that for a pianist's name!

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli may be about to play Debussy, but he's actually reconsidering the wisdom of having chosen a baloney sandwich for lunch...

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fantasmorgastic- I recall a review of Bach-Stokowski arrangements: the kind of music you hear in your nightmares.

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (1920-1995)
"Are you a pianist?"
#arturobenedettimichelangeli #michelangeli

Pianist Jorge Bolet is part of the so-called "New York taste".

I originally misread the Italian reviewer (1975), thought this said: "New Iroqois taste" and was baffled!

...cosiddetto "gusto" nuovairochese/nuovaiorchese...

It’s saved on my google maps after a previous mention by you

Good to be reminded of the eloquence and wit of Jeremy Siepmann whom I first heard talking about Schnabel on BBC Radio 3 in the early 1980s. Here on Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (whom he admired tremendously):

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli and Carlos Kleiber never made a recording of Beethoven's Emperor in 1975. First obstacle...

a woman in a white wig says " every party has a pooper " ALT: a woman in a white wig says " every party has a pooper "

January 5 should be called ‘World Pianist Day’: it is the birthday of Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (b. 1920), Alfred Brendel (b. 1931), and Maurizio Pollini (b. 1942).

But Michelangeli himself once said that he was born 'during the first hour of the morning of 6 January 1920'.

I wonder when this young pianist first started showing signs of eccentricity.

I think I'm now going to feel "short changed" when I read music reviews in 2025! Here's an Austrian paper from 1948