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If she's such an expert pianist, you'd think she'd find the time to glue the missing keytops back on and have the damn thing tuned.

@EripmavRaye The "some other guy" you refer to was David Saperton, Godowsky's son-in-law who taught at the Curtis Institute in the 1920s and 30s and the teacher of Jorge Bolet, Abbey Simon, Shura Cherkassky and many others. He was an amazingly perfect pianist but a rather disagreeable character...

@Nullifidian OK, have it your way. There's no point arguing with an idiot. It's obvious from your earlier comments that you *know* this is a crap job, but go ahead and stick with the incompetents just because they're available for free, and continue to pretend that the cause of humanity is bein...

mc0558 claims Lang was "a husband and father" and is getting lots of likes for his comment. Of course, it's NOT true. Lang was never married and had no children. Whatever you may think of Starkey's hypothesis about his sexuality, let's stick to the facts, please.

@chapiit08 P. S. - Sorry, I misstated the title. The full title of this totally discredited book is:

**Other Losses: An Investigation into the Mass Deaths of German Prisoners of War at the Hands of the French and Americans After World War II**, James Bacque, 1989

L-L is like a technically more competent version of Liberace. No sense of authenticity or underlying rhythmic coherence, no simply letting the melodies out - just distorted, tasteless playing - hyped, and milked for every cheap, hackneyed, peanut gallery trick. He plays like he's reading a comi...

@forgottenbooks And you know they're the devil to play because they're not really scales - they have skips, and because of the layout, the fingering is difficult. And then the second one has one more note at the top. Aaargh! Horowitz's sound like streaks of lightning.

@wigwamman1 setting aside political differences for a moment, are you aware that Ron Paul would be 77 years old at his inauguration? Reagan was only 69 and was considered to be very old to be president. He also pretty much slept through the last couple of years of his administration, and when ...

Jesus, what a time wasting piece of crap. These stupid MIDI realizations should be shoved out a 10th floor window. Just noise, no subtlety, no dynamics, no articulation, no nothing.

Well, Rick - I was tempted to write something nasty here, but you've got about as much chance of being elected president as I do, so why waste my time?

@TheJackiemickie The government requires you pay for a lot of things - taxes for instance, and yes, pay a registration fee and buy insurance for your car so that your bad driving doesn't end up costing someone else. Medical insurance is exactly the same thing - otherwise *your* health problems ...

This ain't got rhythm!

Ick! Kinda coy and slimy.

Oh forchrissakes - put the language on the title so you don't waste the time of countless people.

Very sad. He seems to have lost his self-awareness - he's like an anorexic who continues to see himself as fat even though he weighs 90lbs. What he hears in his head can't be what's coming out. I hope he snaps out of it one day. I heard him in the 1980s and he was blazingly incandescent - int...

The whole thing is beautiful as well as technically amazing, but 3:54 to 4:13 is just, well..... mind boggling. It's one of the great tragedies of music in the 20th century that he did not record more.

Let me get this straight... this video is from Pillsbury, the flour company, and the recipe starts with a store bought frozen crust? What is the world coming to?

I am so goddam sick of seeing this moronic, nasty vid popping up on my screen that I am about to dump YouTube altogether. Do you think we're all 14 years old?

The best of all the 3S shorts. 5:07 to 6:20 Curly dancing with Blanche Payson is pure genius - I'd love to know how they did the spring effect.

@ancientsolar I don't know what her span is, but your question raises an important technical issue when playing this etude. You might think a large hand is an advantage in this piece, but the temptation if you have a big hand is to fix it in an open position for each chord - exactly the wrong t...

Can anyone tell me how they managed that business with Curly bouncing back up from the floor starting around 7: 25? It's not reversed because the people in the background keep dancing. It's always been my favorite moment in my favorite short.

Not Cortot's best work, I think. Oddly unsubtle.

@HellenicWarrior10 I think both sides have behaved very badly in all this, but please get your facts straight: Gilad Shalit was kidnapped *inside* Israel by Hamas operatives who tunneled under the Israel-Gaza border to do it. He was *not* inside someone else's country with a gun. Obviously, they...

Moron

@laertes160 Well, you can argue the tempo choice from a taste point of view, but after all, it IS marked Presto - together with a 3/8 time signature and the basic movement of notes in 8ths, this would indicate a fast tempo. In any case, like it or don't like it, but there is no 'rushing' here. ...

Just about what you'd expect at a Tea Party event. A white woman trying to channel Mahalia Jackson but coming out sounding like the untalented love child of Tom Jones and Sister Vestal Goodman. I'm surprised they didn't get Up With People and a steel guitar to back her up. What cheese!