Thanks for the kind words, Susan, It may have been voicing isuues, but I really tried to get things as even as the piano would let me. I think perhaps my unisons were just not great and I got them solid at intermission after hearing the first half!!! LOL. He was a very kind and soft spoken man, at least with me and we got along just fine. He had no roadies or any truck or bus or anything of the kind, nor stayed the night after the gig!!. After the concert, he thanks me and the Lied staff again, got in his Camry, and drove off!!! Go figgur! Now Feltsman was a different story. We did not hit it off from the first 30 seconds! His arrogance followed me like a pesky mosquito throughout his 2 day stay here. He was never happy with anything, even after intermission. I think it was just that he just didn't like me, nor I him. The piano was absolutely beautiful, The Piano People (Steve) had just re-visited for a full day of follow up on their work, and I still had to spend an hour or two voicing what he appeared as "not right". At intermission, no thank you, no "nice work on the notes I asked you about", but instead: and this was it: "D-6" didn't change!" That was it. Not another word! Some people are never happy with what we do, especially if they don't care for you or you them. I treated him as best I could and shrugged off his bitterness; we just never hit it off. I even had to have "the chat" with the program director from Lied about it last week, where she was there to see what was going on between us at the pre concert stuff! AND GET THIS: She was disappointed with ME! I wasn't kiss-ass enough!! BOY, did that put me in a boil! How much kiss-ass should one have to do? I have a limit! Those who know me know that I am an easy going guy, who will bend over for performers! I have a REALLY nice list of pianists who loved my work, so I just don't put him on my resume!! :>) Thanks for putting up with my rant!! Best, Paul From: Susan Kline <skline at peak.org> To: caut at ptg.org Date: 11/08/2010 02:44 PM Subject: Re: [CAUT] Toughest piece for piano stability? On 11/8/2010 12:28 PM, Paul T Williams wrote: As far as hardest player/ergo poor piano technique would be for me George Winston last year. I thought he was to give it his new age tinkly music, but during his first FFF boogie woogie piece, I ran to the shop to get my set of bass strings! I was sure something was going to fly out of there! Fortunately, nothing did. He had 10 rubber mutes placed where he wanted unisons brought in! I was shocked and amazed that after intermission, he publicly thanked me by name to the audience, gave me 2 signed CD's and was happy as clam (and of course, clams are happy!). I felt both shot down, and then put on a pedistal in the same evening. <grin> He's gotten smart. You obviously were better than many tuners he's tangled with. He used those mutes for my tuning, too, in the treble, though he didn't seem at all put out. Looking carefully at what he had marked with the mutes, it seemed to me that he was focusing more on voicing than on the stability of the unisons. Susan Kline -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20101108/4bef0828/attachment-0001.htm>
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