>"Do you mean what I think you mean on "the turning of pages"? >James Grebe" Speaking of which, how long before pianists can get a thin, flat liquid crystal monitor, which will store all their music, so they don't have to turn pages? It can be a terrible mess for them. I could foresee the day when he or she would just tap the left side of the lyre with their left foot and -- zip -- the next two pages appear. Tap a place further up, and -- zip -- the previous two pages reappear, (just in case he or she overdid it). I watched an opera accompanist in a concert production, fighting the pages all evening, in the midst of playing an orchestra reduction, staying perfectly in time with the singers, and playing with lovely color, verve, and nuance. The piano was toward the side of the stage, (had never been over there before) and a draft kept trying to turn his pages back again. To say he deserved a medal is understating it. Why should pianists have to put up with this sort of stuff, in these days of scanners and gigabyte memories? Susan Kline P.O. Box 1651 Philomath, OR 97370 skline@proaxis.com "It's hopeless! Tomorrow there'll be even more books I should have read than there are today." -- Ashleigh Brilliant
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