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I pray that you have found the peace that evaded you often in your life. You have a beautiful daughter who will grow up to be as beautiful a person as her mother. I pray also that life will treat her fairly and that she has a long and happy life. You were to us, a gift from God.

Simply, pur...

Yes this IS the brutality of a local barbaric culture, and that locality is the Middle East. Everyone is complicit. This was put on video with one of the two following purposes: to teach their own what could happen to them or: to indicate to the West that there are "good" Iranians who riske...

There are not radical and liberal muslims: the religion is vicious as was christianity among others, but others have moved ahead. I cannot forget the Iranians, men, women and children dancing in the streets when the twin towers collapsed. Those who have "adapted" here have done so because it was...

My comments were not intended to degrade Lang Lang's questionable talents. He has done very well on his own in that regard. Since much of the public is lead by media hype the level of standard, as evidenced by your defense of the pianist, continues to erode. The next generation of pianists, al...

Barenboim is kind. LL 's approach here, as in all of his performances, is elementary.

I would like not to believe that LL is not the future of classical music; unfortunately, his backers put him in highly visible positions to which young artists aspire. Tasteless.

..and the pianist is......????? Marvelous. Lied is piano and poetry. How often are collaborative artists nameless.

Pity is that he is gifted young man, but he doesn't play musically. It shows in some of the more introspective pieces he attempts. He is a media darling and will burn out, simply because he has no room to grow. In his case, he will not age musically, simply age. What a pity, to have such physi...