[CAUT] William Wolfram

[Wimblees@aol.com]

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For what it's worth, the critic in the paper is actually a quite  
knowledgeable person. He is an English professor, and plays the piano a little,  (I used 
to tune his piano), but does a lot of research prior to any concert  about the 
music that's going to be played. I have a feeling he talked with  Wolfrom 
after the concert, because I don't think he could hear the problem from  the 
hall. (He is not that good). Here is the review in the paper.
 
"Here it was Wolfram's turn to do some exploring, as he felt his way along  
the music halls' recently acquired and very powerful Steinway grand. Though 
this  instrument has not been played much, something is clearly amiss with the  
evenness, or lack of evenness in the sound it gives out. It's murky in the 
lower  notes, rather soft in the middle range and downright brittle in the higher  
notes. This is a potential disaster for the Beethoven's C Major, in which the 
 pianos' most dramatic touches arise from its' scales arpeggios and ornaments 
-  moments of maximum exposure. Though visibly (if fleetingly) surprised at 
what he  was hearing in the first movement, Wolfram was quick to take the 
measure of  problem, working the brilliance of the instrument into a reading that 
the energy  level and let the most subtle of Beethoven's touches speak for 
themselves. His  closing Rondo was a dance of triumph, rejoicing at the successful 
solution of a  problem suddenly posed."
 
Horace mentioned the importance of a technician being available for a  
recital. The Alabama Symphony was a guest at our music hall. 2 weeks prior to  the 
concert, I asked our concert coordinator about a schedule: What time could I  
tune the piano, what time will the soloist be there to talk to me? All I got,  
even up until two days before, was that they will set up the stage at 11.  
Nothing about when the soloist will show up, when he wanted to practice. For all  
I knew, he was gong to show up at 3 o'clock in time for the concert,  and 
play. So even if I had been there, there wouldn't have been much I could do  
about it. Since I had a dress rehearsal to go to at the same time, I didn't  even 
go to the concert, for which I had bought tickets. 
 
You can imagine how I felt when I read the review in the paper.  Did I 
mention how there are no classes offered that teach how to create a  thick skin. 
 
Wim 
 
 

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