The Cliburn: "Encore! with James Conlon" - Episode 4

The fourth of a six-episode series.
Maestro James Conlon explores the relationship between the concert pianist's internal world and the composer's score - with the finalists of the Twelfth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition as his examples - and examines what makes one interpretation so different from another.
This fascinating series, which premiered on PBS in October 2005, also features chamber performances with the Grammy Award-winning Takács Quartet, and eminent pianist and competition juror Menahem Pressler.
"Encore! with James Conlon" was directed by Andy Sommer and co-produced by Bel Air Media, the Van Cliburn Foundation, and KERA.

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[everythingistken1291]

I don't like the grimace 6:00

[asoidfvgi]

to me , the climax of all Cliburn competition is when Alexei Sultanov won the 1st prize in 1989, just like the climax of all Tchaikovsky competition was when Cliburn won the 1st prizw in 1958.

[lokopiano]

The "Facilism" or the attitude to avoid to make to many explanations, make former great teachers to be lazy and to allow thier pupils to make all kind of stupidities when they playing.

So.. in my seminars the first thing i explain is: I don´t want to watch autobiographic playing. The music is in the score and the playing translate to sound is in the piano. Silly faces or silly and unnecesary movements apparently help, but just apparently. They are a real obstacle.

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[lokopiano]

For this and many reasons too long to explain by internet, i have this behavior every 6 months in YT with different nicknames., yo make some people with talente to react against all this inertia. Many great talents are loosing in nothing due to BAD teaching as the case of Aimi Kobayashi ( in the contrary side is the great Alice Burla ( same age) with EXCELLENT teaching and perfect technique. Some people react and understand the real fact of to be a pianist and not a trash like Lang lang.

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[lokopiano]

But if somebody aske her how she do this or that..i am pretty sure she have not idea of it. Pure subjetivity on piano playing..And the"Judges" mostly a collection of assholes with some fame, don´t know also how is a piano inside the furniture. One extreme case of it was the late and great artist Claudio Arrau. Is a pitty why most musicians think ..the "Thinking" is not good for an artist...because thinking is anti artistry ¡¡¡ like the bla bla bla James Conlon is talking.

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[lokopiano]

because , despite piano exists more than 200 years, the empirism on how to play it is extremely big. Most pianists ( 80%) don´t have an idea how it works. For that reason you can observe a mass of pianists playing like a monkeys, like this pianist, who likes like the Lang Lang girlfriend.....with an amazing lack of self control . She looks like a maniac and her playing is extremely NO cerebral, few intellect, clean notes because maybe she prectices 28 hour daily, as most asians. BUt

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[lokopiano]

In my seminars i have not to hide my real identity. .......So my regular and normal language as my actual english are by far much better. And my patience is extreme. Not as i behave here. And you know why?

Because people who go to my seminars are humble and not pretencious. When i find somebody who go there because he (she) want to be praised i just talk to him (her) in private , to let know my seminars are exclusively to LEARN. And i emphasize specially in technique . WHY?.

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[pianokid07]

"Third: and 4th" Studying at a fancy school is not impressive. If you had an actual DEGREE of somekind, that would be somewhat impressive.

If the "quality" of your seminars is in anyway relected by how you present your self on youtube, it is likely that very few people actually attend your vulgar display of arrogance. I personally would prefer not a lecture of unintelligible rambalings such as yours, but that is just my personal opinion.

[pianokid07]

"Second" I don't doubt that you could be a concert pianist. Although, it does seem unlikely that you would understand what It would take to achieve this goal. However, the burden of proof is yours because it is your claim, not mine. If you spend half as much time practicing as you spend leaving obsence comments on videos of obviously talented artist, it is possible that you are actually rather talented yourself.

[pianokid07]

I'm glad you found that amusing. I think your comments are quite entertaining as well.

"Firts" It seems to me suprising that someone with your level of success would be so defensive about their accomplishments. All I did was point out the reasoning behide my opinions. You seem threatened by this because you immediatly resort to Ad Hominen strategies and name calling. Which I have never done to you.