<html> Hi Avery,                 If you satisfied Anton,  Janina will be no problem, she is a treat to work with.  Hopefully you will get to hear her Chopin,  she's one of the best.   Watch for fast rep, and warm ppp tone and she will milk the instrument. Founding member of Piano Six, so she keeps company with some world class pianist.   A delight for Master classes. Say Hi for me. Regards Roger At 10:04 AM 12/3/01 -0500, you wrote: >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... > </html>