kuerti query - report.

[Avery Todd]

Conrad,

Glad everything went well. I assume he played beautifully, as usual.

My concert Friday night with Horacio Gutierrez doing the Rachmaninoff
4th also went very well. We had a sold out house (800 seats), with
only about 4-5 tickets not purchased.

There was also the Saint-Saens (sp?) Organ concerto on the same
program. I was so tired after that week, that I didn't stay for that
but I understand it went very well.

That's it with the big stuff for me now, until the Piano Festival Feb.
1, 2. & 3. Kuerti will be one of the performers again, along with
Abbey Simon and Janina Fialkowska. Anyone ever work with her before?

Enjoy the holidays and get some R & R. :-) A busy Spring semester
coming up.

Avery

>Thanks to those warnings of expectations.  I had no complaints of 
>regulation, and only a few hammers to voice after I watched him do 
>what I think is his favorite activity - fitting hammers to strings.
>
>Very personable, and he got a big chuckle when he saw the chalk 
>message on the keys "Ted Sambell says Hi!"  He knew I'd been 
>warned...
>
>Besides carrying around his filing block, he has a tuning hammer, 
>and does/will touch up any unisons which may stray during rehearsals.
>
>He was traveling with I Musici de Montreal which insisted on 442. 
>Kuerti did claim that he tried to talk them out of it. He prefers 
>440.
>
>Conrad Hoffsommer -  Decorah, IA
>Usually I try to take it one day at a time, but lately several have 
>attacked me at once...