Rzewski is one of those pianists/composers with an intensely physical relationship with the instrument (to not put too fine a point on it!). Alan Eder -----Original Message----- From: Zeno Wood <zeno.wood at gmail.com> To: College and University Technicians <caut at ptg.org> Sent: Wed, Dec 15, 2010 12:29 pm Subject: [CAUT] Rzewski forearm smash In case you happen to be preparing a piano for Rzewski's Down By the Riverside, I recommend giving it the forearm smash about 50 times, because it happens about 49 times during the piece. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20101216/21fc0808/attachment.htm>
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